Blitz Ghost - Surrey Street Bus Station 1940 > 2011
Tuesday, 30th July, 1940 taken from All Saints Green looking towards St. Stephen by the inimitable Mr George Swain, and by a tall bloke in a jacket with too many pockets 71 years later, this was a remarkable fit, seeing as I didn't take a pic with me and winged it from memory. This was before the Baedeker raids and was probably the result of a "tip and run" by a plane, a Dornier, either targeting a specific and being disturbed or off target, they also hit Ber Street and dumped a few in the river at Hellesdon and the Mile Cross bridge, Also Victoria Terrace, Kings Street and Mansfield Lane, so a fair old scatter, they were at this point just warming up for the main show.
And those two blokes in the middle, they're walking through ghosts, we all do it.
Original Photo: George Swain/NCC