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Second verse same as the first.

10th May 1941

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Not a Baedeker Blitz ghost, this is 1941, not 1942 and it's 2012 too of course.

10th May 1941 in fact.

A very small raid destroyed this upstairs flat, the residents were out, but not too pleased when they got back premably and found their flat was flatter. Grove Walk acquired a duck pond and Cecil Road sustained blast damage. They missed the Hewett (pronounced 'h'urt) unlucky eh school children... Actually I don't think it existed then, but y'know never how these time holes work might work in your favour.

This is a good example of how you can actively see what happened there's a variation in the brick colour, I do often wonder when I do these if the people living in them even know. Maybe I should post them a copy of it and maybe I shouldn't.

I drive past this nearly every day, thought I'd better do it, stop that itch in my head.

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.

Explore #79 March 2nd 2012

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 "line" agency... err... 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.

Good man/Bad man.

Tough one.