Broad Hill - Aberdeen City Scotland - 2018

            Broad Hill is located close to  Pittodrie Stadium home of Aberdeen Football Club and Kings Links golf course, I pass by it every time I drive down towards Aberdeen Harbour or when I visit the Trinity Cemetery that also is located nearby.

Broad Hill has an interesting history, bombed during WW2 , with evidence of shrapnel damage still evident today along the wall of Trinity Cemetery at Park Road and on numerous gravestones in the cemetery itself, I have posted photos I have taken capturing this history here on Flickr in my Trinity Cemetery folder.

Thanks to the magnificent Doric Columns for the information below.

Aberdeen's Blitz
Aberdeen suffered the greatest number of air raids in Scotland during the 2nd World War, being under attack on 34 occasions.  This devastating effect of the last attack on the night of Wednesday 21st April 1943 when 31 tons of bombs were dropped on the Northern half of the City. Among the areas hit were Hilton, Bedford Road, Ashvale Place and the Northern Co-operative Society, Berryden.

 
26th June, 1940
4 High Explosive bombs are dropped on Tullos Home Farm at Nigg without incident.
30th June, 1940
Approximately 20 Incendiary Bombs are dropped in the area around Greyhope Road and Wood Street at 12.35am
2 High Explosive Bombs are dropped in Greyhope Bay area
Many Incendiary bombs fall on the Torry District of town - the Fiddes Woodyard on Crombie Road is recorded as being hit by "few" incendiary bombs. Victoria Road School is burned out completely, and Lookout Post 2 on the roof of the school is destroyed.

The attack begins at 11:45PM, and the All Clear is signalled at 1:20AM on the morning of the 1st of July.
12th July 1940 - Black Friday
Enemy aircraft appeared suddenly with no warning at 12:45 PM and launched an attack on the Hall Russell shipyard. Approximately 16 High Explosive bombs are dropped on Hall Russell, with the majority hitting the Boiler Works. A High Explosive bomb also hits the London Boat at Waterloo Quay. 25 bodies are brought to the ARP Emergency Mortuary at the Combworks in Berryden Road.
13th August, 1940
An attack comes without warning at 10:50 PM.

Trinity Cemetery is hit with an Incendiary bomb, as well as a High Explosive bomb. The latter does not detonate.

A High Explosive bomb also falls on a residence in Seaforth Road, and 1 High Explosive and 1 Incendiary fall on the Park Road Court end of Golf Road.

 A bomb falls somewhere "about Pittodrie". It does not detonate, and its location is not verified.
High Explosive bombs strike 200 yards West of the entrance to the Torry Battery.

This folder contains photos I have taken capturing the views around Broad Hill and from the top of the hill itself, it is a spectacular sight on a clear sunny day to slowly spin 360 degrees and view the this magnificent area of Aberdeen. 

   

Taken on: September 24, 2018

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