Tag: Dorothy Robson

Dorothy Robson, The ‘Bomb Sight Bertha’

Dorothy Robson was born on a cold afternoon on 10 November 1919 at her family home at number 14 Redcar Road, Guisborough. Her dad, Shafto Robson, was a pharmacist and manager at John Willy Frank’s Chemists’. He had recently returned from service in the First World War, where he fought in the trenches in Belgium, working with poison gas