Vine Walk Bombed

Written by Angela Gooch on March 29th, 2008 in War and Military.

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Without revealing exact locations where enemy bombs fell, the local newspaper report leaves the reader with no doubt that it was Vine Walk, assuring that no damage was done to the “vine which is a feature of the wooded promenade”. This, ofcourse, is the Vine Hotel.
I’m not quite sure about the location of the “old County Show Ground” as described in the last paragraph of the report. Perhaps YOU can help!
1941 August

EAST COAST RESORT BOMBED
TWO BOMBS FALL IN PUBLIC PLEASURE WALK
NO CASUALTIES

A Lincolnshire coastal resort was visited by an enemy raider in the early hours of last Friday morning, but fortunately not even a chicken sustained injury.
A lone raider was heard to come in from the sea by the light of the moon, and it dropped a stick of bombs on the outskirts of what is purely a residential town.
Two of the bombs fell in a popular Pleasure Walk. Trees were uprooted, but there was no damage to the vine which is a feature of the wooded promenade.

OLD SHOW GROUND
One bomb produced a crater in a by-road leading to an old County Show Ground, but others fell in open fields, and there was no other damage, either human or material.
Two night later heavier bombs were heard to fall in marsh areas some miles away, but again no casualties or serious damage were reported.