FlyingBombsandRockets,V1 & V2 Streatham and Norbury

Streatham and Norbury were front line suburbs in the battle of the Flying Bombs. The SW16 post code was to be battered by
41 V1's 77 people were killed

V1 & V2 logs SW16 Streatham

next area Beckenham

PostCode

PostCode	Borough	Type	Area	Position	Deaths	Date	Time	Note
SW16	Wandsworth	V1	Streatham	Streatham High Road by Streaham Tulse Hill railway station	0	16/06/1944	01:52	This was the first V1 to strike SW16 and caused substantial damage It possible to detect some post war rebuilding and repairs to the buildings around the station.
SW16	Wandsworth	V1	Streatham	Penrith street Half way down around number 21	2	18/06/1944		No further details available
SW16	Wandsworth	V1	Streatham	PathfIeld Road (around number 23) by Rotherhill Avenue junction	2	18/06/1944	00:48	The V1 demolished 1 house and badly damaged a further 6.
SW16	Croydon	V1	Norbury	Stanford Road Westminster sports ground	0	18/06/1944	01:06	The V1 caused slight damage to surrounding property.
SW16	Croydon	V1	Norbury	London Road around number 1591	1	20/06/1944	04:09	The V1 caused major damage to shops and flats in the vicinity and blast damage across 1/4 mile square. There was also a medium sized fire in the debris
SW16	Croydon	V1	Norbury	Hatch Road around number 61	6	22/06/1944	00:00	No further details available
SW16	Wandsworth	V1	Streatham	Valleyfield Road Opposite end of Harborough Road	0	22/06/1944	06:35	No further details available
SW16	Wandsworth	V1	Streatham	Sherwood Avenue/Gleniser Park Road around number 26	8	22/06/1944	18:40	No further details available.
SW16	Wandsworth	V1	Streatham	Lewin Road Barrow Road Halfway down	0	23/06/1944	06:55	According to the Fire brigade 5 house were demolished. But according to the Streatham Guardian numbers 69-85 were eventualy demolished and replaced with flats.
SW16	Croydon	V1	Norbury	Pollards Hill East around number 13	4	24/06/1944	08:00	The V1 demolished 4 houses. There was also severe blast damage to surrounding properties.
SW16	Wandsworth	V1	Streatham	Thrale Road	8	26/06/1944	15:52	The V1 totally demolished 2 houses. There was severe damage across a wide area which was recorded in detail by the Fire Brigade. This was :Pentwortham Road,Pendle Road, Pretoria Road. Abbotsleigh Road,Aldrington Road,Faylands Avenue,Moyser Road. Nimrod Road,Ribblesdale road,Ullathorne Road,Mitcham Lane.
SW16	Croydon	V1	Norbury	Green Lanes	0	27/06/1944	20:30	The V1 caused slight damage to surrounding property.
SW16	Croydon	V1	Norbury	Pollards Hill South around number 103	0	29/06/1944	08:06	This V1 demolished 2 houses. There was severe blast damge to a further 20 houses.
SW16	Wandsworth	V1	Streatham	Sherwood St/Helmsdale Road junction SE quadrant	0	29/06/1944	19:53	10 houses were demolished and there was a small fire in the debris as a result of this V1.
SW16	Wandsworth	V1	Streatham	Hoadly Road east side	0	30/06/1944	10:25	The V1 demolished . 1 house and 15 badly damaged. There was a lesser degree of damage over a particulary wide area, as reported by the Fire Brigade. The damaged houses were rebuilt in a sympathetic style and it is today difficult to detect the damage that was caused.
SW16	Wandsworth	V1	Streatham	Aldrington Road	0	01/07/1944	22:00	The V1 demolished 1 house and there was severe damage to surrounding property.
SW16	Wandsworth	V1	Streatham	Besley St by Streatham to Tooting Railway around number 40	4	03/07/1944	04:57	The V1 demolished . 4 houses and there was major damage to surrounding property.
SW16	Wandsworth	V1	Streatham	Between Northanger and Buckleigh Road	0	03/07/1944	15:42	The V1 demolished 2 houses. There was severe damage to surrounding property.
SW16	Croydon	V1	Norbury	Norbury Crescent (165)	6	04/07/1944	00:00	This V1 incident could not be found be found in the Fire Brigade records but was identified due to the casualties recorded by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The deaths all seem to have occurred at 165 Norbury Crescent.
SW16	Wandsworth	V1	Streatham	Leigham Vale South end on Bend at around number 1	2	05/07/1944	00:34	The V1 demolished 4 houses and damaged 30 others. There area was re-deveopled in the 1960's with shops and housing.
SW16	Wandsworth	V1	Streatham	Streatham High Road around Lewin Road Junction	1	05/07/1944	14:51	The V1 demolished 4 shops and flats .. The site today is still undeveloped and is surrounded by advertising hordings.
SW16	Croydon	V1	Norbury	129 Norbury Crescent	1	05/07/1944	21:24	The 2nd V1 to Strike Norbury Crescent in 2 days and it demolished 12 houses. And caused severe blast damage to surrounding property.
SW16	Wandsworth	V1	Streatham	Abercairn Road by railway	0	07/07/1944	15:42	The V1 struck Abercairn Road by the railway. A timber shed was burned and 200 feet of rail track severley damaged. 15 houses were also severley damaged and 40 damaged to a lesser degree.
SW16	Wandsworth	V1	Streatham	Oakdale Road around number 9Grasmere Road	6	08/07/1944	21:37	The V1 demolished 5 houses and badly damaged a further 30.
SW16	Wandsworth	V1	Streatham	Streatham Vale Sherwood avenue/Bridgwood Road	0	10/07/1944	14:46	The V1 demolished 5 houses and badly damaged a further 40.
SW16	Croydon	V1	Norbury	Pollards Hill Golf Course	0	11/07/1944	14:42	The V1 caused slight damage to about 30 houses.
SW16	Croydon	V1	Norbury	Pollards Hill South	0	12/07/1944	07:25	This was the 2nd V1 to strike Pollards Hill South. It demolished 12 houses and caused severe damaged to a further 30.
SW16	Wandsworth	V1	Streatham	Streatham Common Opposite end of Deerhurst Road	0	13/07/1944	18:57	The V1 fell on open ground. About 30 houses suffered some blast damage.
SW16	Croydon	V1	Norbury	Pollards Hill South around number 53	1	16/07/1944	04:32	The 3rd V1 in Pollards Hill South. It demolished 4 houses and caused further blast damage to properties previously affected by another Flying Bomb.
SW16	Croydon	V1	Upper Norwood	Covington Way	0	18/07/1944	01:13	The V1 badly damaged 30 houses.
SW16	Croydon	V1	Upper Norwood	Gibsons Hill around number 62	1	21/07/1944	04:33	This V1 demolished 4 houses and caused severe damage to a further 20. The road has been sympathetically restored and the blast damage area is difficult to detect.
SW16	Wandsworth	V1	Streatham	Hopton Road Half way down East Side	0	21/07/1944	20:28	This V1 demolished 6 houses and badly damaged a further 30.
SW16	Wandsworth	V1	Streatham	Oakdale Road (around number 1)Madeira Road	4	23/07/1944	01:19	This V1 demolished 3 houses and caused severe damage to a further 30.
SW16	Croydon	V1	Norbury	Pollards Hill Golf Course	0	27/07/1944	21:26	This was the 2nd V1 to strike Pollards Hill Golf Course. 20 houses were damaged by blast. 30 houses which had been damaged by a previous V1 sufferered further damage.
SW16	Wandsworth	V1	Streatham	Leigham Court Road Opposite St Peter Church	0	01/08/1944	06:59	This V1 demolished 2 houses.8 houses and st Peters Church were badly damaged. This part of Leigham Court Road has been re-developed with flats in the 1960's.
SW16	Croydon	V1	Norbury	Norbury Crescent (176)	5	02/08/1944	06:25	This was the 3rd V1 in Norbury Crescent .It demolished 5 houses. 30 more were badly damaged.
SW16	Wandsworth	V1	Streatham	Pendle Road around number 121	12	03/08/1944	03:08	This V1 demolished 4 houses and partly demolished a further 16. Much damage to surrounding property.
SW16	Wandsworth	V1	Streatham	Abbotsleigh Road Half way up East side	0	03/08/1944	09:15	The V1 struck demolished 2 houses. 20 more were badly damaged.
SW16	Wandsworth	V1	Streatham	Moyser Road around number 36	2	05/08/1944	04:42	This V1 demolished 14 houses. 40 more were badly damaged.
SW16	Wandsworth	V1	Streatham	Aldrington Road	0	06/08/1944	17:11	This V1 demolished 2 houses and partly demolished 6 more. A gas main was fractured. It also caused damage in Ullathorne Road and Faylands Road.
SW16	Croydon	V1	Norbury	Avenue Road around number 14	1	19/09/1944	00:00	This V1 was picked up from the Commonwealth War Graves Web Site but was not recorded by the Fire Brigade.

As an outer suburban area, some of which was still fairly large houses the death rate per missile at 1.88 was somewhat lower
than it was in the more crowded inner London areas, although still a dreadful loss. Streatham's worst incident was on the
3rd August 1944 when 12 people were killed by a V1 which struck in the Pendle Road area and caused widespread damage
across a number of roads.
As was common in other areas V1's had an unpleasant tendency to fall in clusters. Thus The Pollards Hill area was to
receive 6 V1's within a small radius. These killed a total of 5 people and caused serious damage some houses being blast
damaged again and again.
Norbury Crescent also suffered badly with 3 V1's which killed a total of 12 people.
Two of these fell on consecutive days, the 4th and 5th of July 1944.
Most of Streatham and Norbury's Flying Bomb scars have been healed with time. In places though tell tale signs appear.
Close inspection of the area around Streatham Station reveals post war re-building and repairs. In other places such as Lewin
Road 1960's flats plug a gap in the line of Victorian Houses. At the end of Lewin Road is an most unusual thing these days,
a totally undeveloped Flying Bomb site at the junction with Streatham High Road. It is now surrounded by advertising
hoardings.

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