Air Raid Damage Reports Brentwood Division Essex Fire Service 19 March 1941.

Date                Time   Location         Damage

19/03/1941    00.50  Laindon         3 – H.Es exploded, one in garden of “Woodlands”

Norfolk Road, 1 at Alexander Road and 1 at Rosebury Avenue.  Damage to property, gas main fractured.  No casualties.

19/03/1941    00.50  Little                I.Bs (about 50) burnt out in fields at Rectory Road

                                    Burstead        and near the Church.  No damage or casualties.

19/03/1941    01.15  Basildon        10 – H.Es exploded in fields 500 yards North of

                                                            Bethwick Lane.  No damage or casualties.

19/03/1941    01.15  Laindon         1 – H.E. unexploded  in a field 300 yards North of

Bencons Farm, Wash Road.  No damage or casualties B.D.S. 10.5.41.

19/03/1941    03.05  Great Warley I.Bs (about 100) burnt out at Codham Hall.  No

                                                            damage or casualties.        

19/03/1941    03.05  Shenfield &   I.Bs (a number) at Highlands and Priests Lane. 

                                    Hutton            Damage to property.  No casualties.

19/03/1941    03.30  Great Warley 2 – H.Es exploded in field at Codham Hall Farm. 

                                                            No damage or casualties.

19/03/1941    13.30  Ramsden       1 – A.A. unexploded Shell found in garden of

Bellhouse      Malveas Cycle Shop premises, 50 yards East of Fox & Hounds P.H.  No damage or casualties.  (removed by B.D.S. 29.3.41).

19/03/1941                Billericay        1 – A.A. Shell exploded in a field 50 yards North of

Thrift Wood Lane Tye Common.  No damage or casualties.

19/03/1941    21.10  Paglesham    4 – H.Es exploded and a number of I.Bs burnt out

at East Hall.  Slight damage to property.  Overhead electric cables down.  18 pigs killed.