Harders Road, Peckham

[jayaydee]

I have managed to trace my great-great aunt, her husband and two daughters through the Electoral Registers. In 1913 they were living at 97 High Street, Peckham and in 1918, they had moved to 37 Harders Road, Peckham where they lived until 1939. My 2xgreat aunt died in 1942 - I haven't got the death certificate yet so I don't know the cause of death but I don't think it was war-related. There's no Electoral Registers until 1945 when her husband (Alfred) and daughters were living at 94 Naylor Road but in 1946 they were back at 37 Harders Road.

Does anyone have access to the Bomb Damage Maps to see if their house in Harders Road was bombed which is why they had moved to Naylor Road temporarily? I've had a look at the V1/V2 maps but Harders Road doesn't appear to have been hit.

The family continued to live in Harders Road and after Alfred died in 1959, the daughters (both unmarried) remained there until 1961. I'm not sure whether the Registers don't go beyond then or whether they were rehoused due to the huge redevelopment of the area. Having looked at Google Streetview the houses all look post-war. Does anyone have any details of when these were built?

Both the daughters have since died, both still spinsters.

[fizzix]

Hi

It never ceases to amaze me the things that people have gone to the trouble to put up on the internet  , this is an interactive map showing the bomb sites http://www.wowblog.co.uk/?p=674. There doen't appear to be a direct hit but a few nearby. Seems like a brilliant resource Yersinia Pestis has done a good job.

Jacqui

[jayaydee]

Hi Jacqui,

Thanks for looking for me. I had seen Yersinia Pestis' website but it only shows a few of the V1 and V2 sites. I read somewhere that apparently she had photocopied all the LCC Bomb Damage maps and posted them on Flickr but had to take them down o/a copyright issues - I'm not sure how true this is.

Another good site is this one:  http://www.flyingbombsandrockets.com/V1_summary_se15.html which gives detailed information about V1 and V2 bombsites in south east London.  Unfortunately it only shows the Doodlebug bombs and not the bombs that fell during the raids in the Blitz. I was thinking it may have been one of these which perhaps damaged the house in Harders Road.