Sujet

Fraser House, Charlotte Street, Manchester, 1942. Creator: George Bernard Wood.

Légende

Fraser House, Charlotte Street, Manchester, 1942. An exterior view of Fraser House, a former warehouse on the corner of Charlotte Street and Portland Street, seen from the south with rubble in the foreground. The warehouse was built between c1855 and 1860 by Edward Walters with red brick and sandstone dressings, and it was used as a textile manufacturer's warehouse. It has four storeys and a basement, with five bays to the south, and three bays to the east. There is a sign on the south facade, reading: "AIR RAID SHELTER/ 200 PERSONS", and in the foreground is rubble most likely bomb damage from a Second World War air raid.

Date

1942

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Notre référence

HRM21B16_132

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

71,0Mo (4,5Mo) / 49,9cm x 35,7cm / 5888 x 4217 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors building England destruction industry country warehouse warehouses British English shelter county industrial war location debris rubble Victorian century lancashire Britain wartime concept B&W 1940s warfare Manchester Forties bombed World War II World War two 19th century WWII bombing black & white black and white B W world war 2 20th century air raid Blitz nineteenth century aerial warfare Air Raid Precautions air raid shelter bomb damage decade Greater Manchester Home Front Portland Street Second World War TGN WW2 outside Charlotte Street street photograph 2nd World War Edward d?bris Walters ARP Historic England Edward Walters 19th-century George Bernard Wood Wood George Bernard Fraser House