Sujet

New Street, Coventry, 1941. Creator: George Bernard Mason.

Légende

New Street, Coventry, 1941. The exterior of 30 New Street with a woman standing in the doorway of the house holding a baby and the windows boarded as a result of bomb damageA note beneath the photograph reports that the baby was "born during the great air-raid". Coventry City centre was devastated by air raids in November 1940. The bombing left the nearby cathedral in ruins and destroyed much of the historic fabric of the city. New Street was demolished following the end of the war.

Date

1941

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Notre référence

HRM21B16_044

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

70,1Mo (5,7Mo) / 37,1cm x 47,4cm / 4378 x 5594 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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