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Photograph - Mono (Document ID: 101977)

© David J. Smithies

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Photograph - Mono (Document ID: 101977)

View of Hanson Lane, Halifax, West Yorkshire, showing where a World War II bomb landed.

Author: David J. Smithies
Date: 06 January 1991
Location: Halifax
Format: Photograph - Mono
Document ID: 101977
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In November 1940, a German bomb destroyed a block of shops which stood where the grassed area is in the foreground of the photograph. The property lower down the street was badly damaged by the blast, whilst shops, houses and a public house across the road were subsequently demolished.

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