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The Manor of Lackham IV : 19 th & 20 th century owners This was during one of the worst raids Weston experienced. The first bombs fell on Weston in June 1940 but blitzes in January 1941 and in June 1942 destroyed large areas of the town. 358 Many people were killed in the two raids in 1942 359 It has been suggested that Lord Glanely had moved “temporarily” to Weston to avoid the bombing in Cardiff, which was becoming intense in the middle of 1942, but this cannot be verified. 358 http://www.weston-super-mare.com/newhistory/newhistory.html 359 http://www.fishponds.freeuk.com/nluftbri3.htm Weston super Mare was attacked on the nights of June 27th and 28th resulting in the death of 102 persons, with a further 400 injured. It was chosen as a reprisal for the British Thousand Bomber raid on Bremen on the night of June 26th, because German intelligence understood that Churchill was to stay in the town on his return from a visit to the United States. 53 aircraft of I, II and III/KG 2, II/KG 40 and Kü Fl Gr 106 claimed to have attack Weston on the night of June 27th, with a total of 28.6 tonnes of H.E's and 18,832 I.B's, while 2 Ju 88's of 1(F)/123 kept a look-out for British fighters. The raid began in brilliant weather with a full moon and the first bombs were dropped just before the siren warning at 01.22 hrs. A total of 62 H.E. incidents involving casualties were reported from many locations, but the main concentration was in the residential and shopping centre of the town. The attack, which was of short duration, ended at about 02.00 hrs, the majority of the damage having been confined to residential property. From the attack force only one aircraft was lost, this having crashed in France injuring the 4 crewmen. The following night a similar number of bombers from the same units delivered some 27 tonnes of H.E.'s and 20,096 I.B's, the Weston Anti-Aircraft guns engaging them between 01.59 and 02.24 hrs. During this raid it was the main shopping centre which was chiefly affected with many shops and commercial premises being destroyed as a result of the large fires which took hold in the Regent Street, High Street, South Parade, Waterloo Street and Boulevard area. Railway services in and out of Weston were also suspended, and at the station the waiting room and goods shed were destroyed by fire, as were 12 passenger coaches. 107
The Manor of Lackham IV : 19 th & 20 th century owners Five months later the Tatem Steam Navigation Co Motorship Lady Glanely was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine 400 miles west of Ireland, she went down with all hands 360 . [To return to the section list click here] Major Herbert Paton Holt at Lackham Fig. 34 Arms of Herbert Paton Holt. 361 * The purchaser of the core of the estate, Major Herbert Paton Holt, was born in 1890 in Canada. Lackham folklore has it that he rose to be President of the Royal Bank of Canada but this isn’t correct. The Holt who was President of the RBC was his father, Sir Herbert S Holt 362 , who was born in Co. Kildare, Ireland on 12th February 1855, the younger son of William Robert Gratton Holt. Herbert S Holt had an interesting career as a civil engineer. He qualified as a civil engineer in Dublin and moved to Canada in his early teens where he spent some years in western Ont., went to the N.-W., and was employed there in the survey and construction of portions of the Can. Pac. Ry. 360 http://perso.wanadoo.fr/cdasm.56/dictionnaire/409.pdf ibid 361 Buckeridge, D (1995) Church Heraldry in Wiltshire Azure, two bars or, in chief a cross formee fitchee of the last 362 Who was Who, 1941-1950 p 558 108
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