Title

6-7 Gosford Street, Coventry, Coventry, Coventry, 1941. Creator: George Bernard Mason.

Caption

6-7 Gosford Street, Coventry, Coventry, Coventry, 1941. The exterior of shop premises at 6 and 7 Gosford Street showing foodstuffs displayed outside number 7 and a tarpaulin covering damage to the roof of number 6. Coventry City centre was devastated by air raids on 14th November 1940. The bombing raids left the nearby cathedral in ruins and destroyed much of the historic fabric of the city.

Date

1941

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Reference

HRM21B16_049

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

69,2Mb (3,8Mb) / 14,5in x 18,6in / 4343 x 5566 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior outdoors building buildings England female women woman people destruction house houses shopping shop shops country British English war shop front grocers location century shopper Britain wartime concept B&W 1940s warfare west midlands Forties bombed World War II World War two WWII bombing black & white black and white B W world war 2 20th century air raid Blitz aerial warfare bomb damage Coventry decade Second World War TGN WW2 outside street photograph 2nd World War George Bernard Mason Mason George Bernard Historic England grocer's shop Gosford Street