North-East Diary 1939-1945 Roy Ripley & Brian Pears © Copyright Brian Pears 1994-2011

Published Sources

1940 - The World in Flames Richard Collier Action Stations - Vol 4 Bruce Barrymore Halpenny Action Stations - Vol 7 David J. Smith Anti Aircraft Ian V. Hogg Are We at War? Anthony Livesey The Baedeker Blitz Niall Rothnie The Battle of Britain Basil Collier The Battle of Britain Mk V Then and Now edited by Winston Ramsey The Blitz on Hull Reverend Phillip Graystone Blitz - Then and Now - Vols 1 to 3 edited by Winston Ramsey Bombers and Mash - The Domestic Front 1939/45 Raynes Minns Bombs by the Hundred on Stockton-on-Tees David Brown Britain's Sea War John M. Young Civil Defence T.H. O'Brien Civilians at War George Beardmore Coastal Defences of England and Wales Ian V. Hogg Constable - a history of Northumbria Police Frederick C. Moffatt Crime in Wartime Edward Smithies The Day War Broke Out Peter Haining Destroyer! M.J. Whitley A Dictionary of Ships of the RN of WW2 John Young Directory of Popular Music 1900 - 1980 Leslie Lowe Eagles High Peter North Flames Across the Tyne Gerard March The 'Gone But Not Forgotten' booklets published by Newcastle City Libraries The Great York Air Raid Leo Kessler Guinea Pig Club Newsletter/Magazine - Spring 1979 Hartonclean 1884 - 1984 Eric B. Dobson History of Bomb Damage Miss A. Flagg The Home Front in World War II Womak - edited by Turnbull Hull at War Clive Hardy The Illustrated Dictionary of North East Shipwrecks Peter Collings Invasion Kenneth Macksey The Last Destroyer F.A. Mason Living Through the Blitz Tom Harrisson The Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain Armand van Ishoven Military Archeology Terry Gander The Narrow Margin - The Battle of Britain D. Wood and D. Dempster Newcastle's Fire Brigades John Hallam A North-East Coast Town T. Geraghty 150 Years of the Maltese Cross John H. Proud Only Owls and Bloody Fools Fly at Night Group Captain Tom Sawyer DFC Authors of the book - Out of the Blue edited by Laddie Lucas Out Sweeps Paul Lund and Harry Ludlam The People's War Juliet Gardiner The Real Dad's Army Norman Longmate The Red Duster at War John Slater Roof Over Britain a booklet produced by HMSO in 1943 Sea War Frank Pearce The Secret War a series of articles in the Newcastle Evening Chronicle Feb 1981 Eric Forster Spitfire Air Vice Marshal Sandy Johnstone CB DFC AE Mr S.E. Sterck's articles for the Newcastle Evening Chronicle Still on my Way to Hollywood Ernie Wise Talking About the War Anne Valery The Trolley Buses of Newcastle upon Tyne T.P. Canneaux and N.H. Hanson Tyneside at War Clive Hardy and Paul Harris Tyneside Shipbuilding 1920 - 1960 Peter Elson The War Illustrated edited by Sir John Hammerton War in the Air Edward Smithies Wartime Chronicle Vera Brittain West Hartlepool Robert Wood When Bombs Fell on Rowlands Gill Brian Pears Whitaker's Almanac - 1945 - 1946 The York Blitz - 1942 Leo Kessler and Eric Taylor Yorkshire at War Leo Kessler & Eric Taylor

Unpublished Sources

• NCRO=Northumberland County Records Office
• PRO=Public Records Office
• TWAS=Tyne and Wear Archives Service

ARP and Special Constabulary papers Gateshead Local Studies Dept ARP Coordinator's Notebook TWAS 2394 Air Raid Shelters TWAS T136-128 Blackout TWAS T136-81 and T136-82 Blaydon Report Centre Log Book Courtesy of Mr S.J.Robinson of Winlaton Personal Diaries and Sketch Maps 1940-1943 Paul E.H. Hair, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Liverpool Durham Constabulary - Record of Air Raids Courtesy of the Force Librarian E-mail re Fairy Battle Crash and John Anthony Anderson Courtesy of John Henderson of Ottawa E-mail re Hurricane Crash at Castle Eden Dene and Sgt Ronald Graham White Carter Courtesy of Graeme Dobson E-mail re loss of HMS Lightning Courtesy of John Dann E-mail re Newton Shipley, who was awarded the Scout's V.C. Courtesy of John Briggs E-mail re Ships Lost Courtesy of John Briggs E-mail re Sinking of U-714 by HMSAS Natal Courtesy of Roger Williams, retired journalist and an ex-AB, South African Naval Forces, WWII E-mail re Wellington Crash near Consett Courtesy of Neville Bougourd E-mails re the experiences and observations of his late father, Flight Sergeant Frederick Penrose Courtesy of John Penrose Gateshead Watch Committee Minutes Gateshead Local Studies Dept Letter re Air-Raid on Bolam Courtesy of R.Carmichael of Belsay Ministry of Home Security Operations Bulletins NCRO 444/15 and TWAS T170-8 Newcastle Air Raid Reports TWAS T136-133, T136-134 and T136-120 Northumberland Air Raid Reports NCRO NC/6/10 (NRO 640/39) Northumberland Constabulary - Wooler Occurrence Book 1937-45 NCRO NC/9/3 Notes on Sgt Kenneth Gordon Hook DFM Courtesy of his son, Iain K Hook Operations Record Book - HQ No 13 Group RAF PRO AIR 25/233 Sunderland Air Raid Reports TWAS 209/113 "Twentieth Century Fortifications in England" Vols 1-3 Council for British Archaeology reports 1996 Tyne Stop Line PRO WO 199/1516 Tynemouth War Damage Reports TWAS T15-1477 War Damage Reports Craster & Alnmouth NCRO NRO756 C19 War Damage Reports Radcliffe & Boulmer NCRO NRO756 C20

I have used various articles from, and letters written to the: Newcastle Journal, Newcastle Evening Chronicle, Daily Express, Daily Mirror, Evening Standard, Picture Post, Daily Mail, Sunday Times and the Sunday Times Supplements, "In Trust" Issue No 2 - 2nd June 1976 - Tyne & Wear Industrial Monuments Trust, "Industrial Archeology" -"The Victoria Tunnel" by D.J. Rowe etc.

I must thank the staff of South Shields Library, Local History Department for bringing to my attention Miss Flagg's 'History of Bomb Damage' it is a most comprehensive piece of work, a veritable mine of information about South Shield's ordeal in World War II.

My thanks too, to the staff of Rowlands Gill Library for putting me in touch with Brian Pears. I was fortunate enough to find out about this multi-talented man when I asked at Northumberland Record Office for information on bombing incidents in the North-East. Among the items I was given to look at was a book written by him, it was called 'When Bombs Fell on Rowlands Gill'. It is a remarkably complete collection of relevant facts, followed by an illustrated theory on the reason for the enemy's attack on this peaceful village and the surrounding area, one night in 1942. Due to the efforts of the staff of Rowlands Gill Library we were able to meet and without any hesitation he gave me permission to use any of his many works that would be of use - that kind of generosity is not seen very often - I am deeply grateful. I have copied much of his work, it does not need a symbol because it is instantly recognisable by its wealth of detail.. i.e. the names of the crew members of both British and German planes mentioned in the text, the inclusion of a reference code and the use of OS grid numbers to pinpoint incidents in the countryside.

There may be others whose work and research I have used but have unwittingly left unacknowledged - to them, I apologise, and hope that I have not given offence.

© Copyright Brian Pears 1994-2011