UK Bomb Damage. (Still visible now)

I didn't even know it'd been hit.
Been there many times & never looked.
Must look at numbers 2 & 17 next time.


17 Royal Crescent, Bath, gutted by fire from an incendiary bomb April 1942 (bathintime.co.uk)

Wartime bomb damage outside the Royal Crescent Bath April 1942 (bathintime.co.uk)

 

Bath as many such towns was hit by the Luftwaffe Baedeker raids. These were in retaliation and directed by Hitler for the firebombing of Lubeck.

The port was hit heavily but the old town, being constructed mainly of wood was extensively damaged on the night of 28/29 March 1942.

 

A few more photos Cleopatras Needle London

 

Shadwell east end of London
Old building being redeveloped
This area was heavily bombed during WW2
The photos show 21st century redevelpoment of the site
The photo of the side with fireplaces was a common site on bombed out buildings even into the 1980s

 

Southwark Cathedral,London

 

No so much bomb damaged but uncovered by bombs in 1940
London Roman Wall

 

Ah, the restoration for its future commemorative purpose is reportedly now underway:
Inside National Picture Theatre as restoration work begins

Used to walk past it early on Summer term Tuesday mornings to go to Beverley Road baths for school swimming, 0830 start. Only remember sunny mornings. Frozen Jubblies afterwards.

 

Even more opposite the Cenotaph London

 

Waterloo Place London

 

Someone in a Packard group on Facebook is researching a beautiful 1930 Packard Eight.
They've determined it was exported to Leonard Williams & Ltd, 971 Great West Road, Brentford, Middlesex, England.

They believe the building was destroyed by bombers in WWII but the steps are still there:

 

Not WW2 but WW1. The crescent in Scarborough on the 16th December 1914 came under naval bombardment from the Germans.

Worth a look if you are local or in the area.

 

The shrapnel damage on the Church of St Thomas, Dudley (known locally as Top Church) is a remaining scar from World War II. On September 7, 1940, a Luftwaffe bomb dropped right opposite the front of the building, destroying the “Three Swans” pub opposite, blowing out windows and pitting the exterior stone walls, tower, and steeple with shrapnel. Good contemporary photo here:

Home Front History (Est. 2011) | “Top Church” Saint Thomas’s in Dudley | Facebook

And today:

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