IN my previous letter (Birthday bomber, March 9) concerning the strafing of York by a Heinkel bomber in 1941, the date of the attack was December 17, not December 14 as printed.

I would like to thank Andrew Hitchon of The Press for taking an interest in the story of a lone German bomber over York, and a big thank-you to the readers who wrote in, filling out other details as remembered by them.

Paddy Kissane, Hamilton Drive, York.


* WITH reference to “Bombing York docks” (Letters, March 31).

I remember the Sunday afternoon. It was a rainy day, I would be the 14th or 15th, I was on my way back home to Heslington Road.

I had just passed the cemetery gates, when this plane with an intermittent drone came overhead. It was very low, there were two bangs and I ran home as fast I could.

On Monday morning I went to Wards garage in Fawcett Street, which is now a hotel. My workmate Bob Henry and I went round the back of Clifford’s Tower to see what all the activity was about.

Sure enough, there was the unexploded bomb at the bottom of steps, then a policeman chased us away. I think two bombs fell near the Brown Cow pub; this is how I remember it.

D Simpson, Church Lane, Dunnington, York.