Blitz ghost - Harmers Factory, St Andrews Broad Street

Blitz ghost - Harmers Factory, St Andrews Broad Street

This one looks to me like a follow up shot to the previous one, without the modern benefit of metadata, I'd say it was taken after they'd damped the fire in Harmer's down a wee bit. probably on the 30th April, before it got bombed again.

Again taken by the foolhardy and fabulous George Swain, a photographer by birth, his father was a commercial photographer too.

This picture resides in Picture Norfolk where for a small fee you may purchase it from the ever helpful and lovely Clare.

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Uploaded on Mar 2, 2012

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Blitz Ghost - St Andrews Broad Street, Norwich,

Blitz Ghost - St Andrews Broad Street, Norwich,

29th April 1942 . 2nd March 2012, almost seventy years.

This is Harmer's Factory on St Andrews, it's also a weird bit of land with not much on it, sort of an entrance to a car park of sorts.

Harmer's was hit several times, firstly I think on the second night of the Baedeker Raids, the 29th April 1942, which ripped it open and set it on fire, then once it had been more or less damped down it was hit again on the 1st May 1942, and caught fire again. The factory was at this point being used to make army uniforms. Then it wasn't.

The building on the right of it, is now The "insert small word here" agency, it used to be Turton. and Fisher Electrical, today it's all of them for a second.

This original photo is a swain, it is also available from Picture Norfolk where you can but a copy (of the original). They do a very good job of maintaining a huge collection of photos.

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Uploaded on Mar 2, 2012

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Bomber Harris

Bomber Harris

Good man/Bad man.

Tough one.

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Uploaded on Mar 1, 2012

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Tate that

Tate that

big old pile of standing bricks, inevitable.

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Uploaded on Feb 28, 2012

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Millennium bridge

Millennium bridge

I can never spell it, is that right?

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Uploaded on Feb 28, 2012

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