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Pins in the ARP map at Sherborne’s operation room showing the position of the bombs that fell on Sherborne on 30 September 1940.
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One heavy bomb and possibly five light
bombs fell in a cluster in the Courts, flinging up debris high above
the roof tops.
This photograph shows the bomb
craters in the Courts, September/October
1940.
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Boys looking for shrapnel in the bomb craters in the Courts at Sherborne School. This photograph was taken within half an hour of the raid on 30 September 1940.
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Boys looking for shrapnel in the bomb craters in the Courts at Sherborne School. This photograph was taken within half an hour of the raid on 30 September 1940.
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Bomb craters in the Courts at Sherborne School. This photograph was taken within half an hour of the raid on 30 September 1940.
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The Courts after the bomb craters had been filled in by boys in School House. During the raid the boys sheltered in the Cloisters behind corrugated iron sheets and sand bags.
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A bomb fell in the road between the Carrington
Building and the Big School Room,
destroying the contents of the School Musuem
and shattering the West windows of the
chapel.
This photograph shows the bomb damage in the road outside the Carrington Building, September/October
1940.
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The bomb crater in the road between the Carrington Building and the Big School Room, showing the damage sustained by the Carrington Building, September/October 1940.
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The bomb crater in the road outside the Carrington Building,
September/October 1940.
A dud also fell behind the Bursary.
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Shrapnel damage to the entrance of the Carrington Building. The photograph was taken after the raid and before the dust had been washed off the building, October 1940.
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Damage to the entrance of the Carrington Building before restoration, October 1940.
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Damage to a classroom in the Carrington Building, September/October 1940.
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The Big School Room was badly damaged by the
explosions on either side: the roof beams
were blasted from their seating, the stone work of the
windows was sucked outwards
and all the window glass was broken.
However, the pictures and
honours boards were untouched.
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Bomb damage to the interior of the Big School Room,
September/October 1940.
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Bomb damage to the exterior of the Big School Room, viewed from the west, September/October 1940.
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The windows in the west end of the School chapel were destroyed by the bomb that fell outside the
Carrington Building.
This photograph shows the remains of the Longmuir Window at the west end of the north aisle
of the School chapel, October 1940.
The window, designed by Clayton
& Bell was installed in 1893 in memory of the School’s art master,
Alexander Davidson Longmuir (c.1838-1891).
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Damage to the houses along Horsecastles, viewed from the bomb crater on the Upper playing field, September/October 1940.
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Six bombs fell on the School playing fields, putting the Upper out of action for the rest of the season. Boys can be seen here investigating the bomb crater on the Upper, viewed from
Horsecastles, October 1940.
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The large bomb crater next to the tuck shop pavilion on Carey’s playing field, September/October 1940.
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The bomb crater on the Prep School playing field, viewed from the top of Richmond Road, October 1940.
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The bomb crater in Richmond Road, with a notice warning about an unexploded bomb, October 1940.
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Seven bombs fell around Lyon House, displacing 14,000 tiles. This photograph shows the damage to the Sweat House roof at Lyon House, October 1940.
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Bomb damage in the road outside Lyon House, Richmond Road, October 1940. The men in the photograph include Bob Churchill, Lewis Osment, Mr Osment, and Fred Cane.
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Bomb damage to the Girls’ School Sanatorium in Richmond Road, October 1940.
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The Lyon House trench. The 150 feet of trench, topped with
1,000 sand bags, with a concrete
bottom and steps, was the work of boys in
Lyon House.
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One of the School’s squash courts was demolished by a bomb blast from Acreman Street.
This photographs
shows the damage to the Squash Courts
and School Sanatorium in
Acreman Street, October 1940.
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The ARP water supply to the roof of
Sherborne Abbey.
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Boys doing ‘hall’ in the School House shelter during an alert, Autumn 1940.