Sujet

Mermaid Inn, Gosford Street, Coventry, 1941. Creator: George Bernard Mason.

Légende

Mermaid Inn, Gosford Street, Coventry, 1941. The Mermaid Inn at 109 Gosford Street. The windows of the public house are boarded, probably as a result of bomb damage. 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

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Notre référence

HRM21B16_046

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

69,7Mo (4,8Mo) / 36,7cm x 47,7cm / 4330 x 5630 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors building England destruction country pub British public house English war inn location century Britain wartime concept B&W 1940s tavern 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 Mermaid Inn George Bernard Mason Mason George Bernard Historic England Gosford Street