Where abouts in Manchester did the V1 rockets land?
V1 Rocket dropped in Brindle, opposite Hewn Gate Farm and some 100 yards to Mintholme railway crossing. The Northern Daily Telegraph reported that: “On Christmas Eve 1944, Nazi planes over the North Sea launched several of the missiles (V1’s) – normally fired from land-bases across the Channel – at the North of England. Manchester was believed to be their target. Another dropped on the Hoghton area, wrecking two farm cottages and burying, but not injuring, their occupants – though one of the families lost the chicken they’d been cooking for Christmas dinner”. Although Brindle is not Manchester this is the only town it brings up in the Lancashire area. Brindle is a small village and civil parish of the borough of Chorley, Lancashire. Brindle and Chorley are near Manchester and there could have been factories helping towards the war effort situated in those towns, do not know though, only guessing.
