1939 45 Bomb In Yewtree Road
A Memory of Ormskirk.
I lived just around the corner in County Road and was About 2 hundred yards away when the bomb dropped.I would take issue with the writer Mona Duggan in her excellent book in the Francis Frith history of Ormskirk when she says that only one bomb landed on Ormskirk and that there were no deaths. This bomb fell beside a tree in the pavement and shrapnel or debris killed a man sitting in his front room opposite the tree. A stick of 8 bombs fell across Ormskirk, the 2nd just missed the railway, the 3rd landed in a flower bed at the Wigan Road hospital, the 4th near Edge Hill College. I can't remember the rest but we were fortunate that there were no other casualties. On other occasions, incendiary bombs fell on the town centre, we picked up their remains on our way to school.
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