immediately put into effect, due to the dangers of night time bombing raids. Ironically, New Bradwell's new electric street lights, which had only been completed two weeks previously, were switched off and not used again for six years. Bradwell's Blitz consisted of two bombs on Sunday 20 October 1940. First, two flares were dropped at the end of Bridge Street, landing on the allotments, now the school playing fields. An unconfirmed theory surmises that the bombs may have been aimed at the Wolverton railway works, then engaged in war work. Then the two bombs were dropped on the western end of the high street, the first landing on the road outside "the Laurels", creating a crater, the second at the end of the high street, demolishing numbers 71, 73 & 75, killing five people andinjuring 20 more. The "Bradwell Blitz" was one of the more dramatic events in this part of North Buckinghamshire. (The activities at Bletchley Park a few miles south were top secret. Nevertheless, Old Bletchley was hit by four bombs one of which hit the Park's main gate without exploding). The Bradwell Blitz was so-called because it happened during the Blitz, the fourth and last phase of the Battle of Britain. Civil parish The civil parish of New Bradwell was created in 1919 from part of the Bradwell parish, and formed part of the Wolverton Urban District urban district (with the rest of the Bradwell parish remaining in Newport Pagnell Rural District). The parish continued to exist as part of Wolverton UD until 1934, when it was absorbed into Wolverton CP. It was re-established in 2001 as part of a general parishing of all the unparished areas of Milton Keynes. The parish is bounded to the north by the Great Ouse, to the west by V6 Grafton Street, to the south by the route of the former Wolverton/Newport Pagnell railway line (now a redway) and to the east by a short stretch of the Grand Union Canal. At the 2011 census, the population of the parish was 3,109, compared with 2,990 in 2001. Sport and leisure New Bradwell has a Non-League football team New Bradwell St Peter F.C. who play at The Recreation Ground. It also has two cricket teams. New Bradwell is known in Milton Keynes for its silver band. The band has been in existence for over 100 years and is famous locally for waking