It was a Parachute bomb. I lived at 89 Kingsley road which backed onto Dunbar Road and we found a piece of the parachute cord hanging over our garden clothes line when the dust had settled. It was unmistakable, made from thousands of silk threads probably dyed green after manufacture as because it was split open, the green faded into white threads on the inside. It could even be heard coming down before impact. Many houses on BOTH sides of Kingsley road were wiped out in the area of where it landed behind the Dunbar houses. The photograph reinforces my long belief that it should have been considered the KINGSLEY Road bomb.
If you might look on Google earth and count the replacement houses which do not conform to the regular old bay windows which existed both lining Kingsley and Dunbar roads you might agree with me now. A long length of Kingsley road shows many house on BOTH sides had been obliterated and on ONE SIDE ONLY of Dunbar road you will see only two or three replacements. (The school was almost opposite) I am now 97 and can still see that length of cord in my minds eye. Ena Bowles. (Nee Chandler.)
