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Description: | At 21.09 hours on the evening of September 30th South Shields experienced wide spread bombing when a 1,000kg. bomb fell in the gardens behind the Simonside Arms. on the Newcastle Road. The crater was 50 feet x 15 feet, a 90 feet wall was demolished and there were no casualties.
At the same time two bombs fell in Commercial Road; one struck the foundations or an old house on the bankside below Smith's Foundry, ricochetted, passed through the exterior wall of a house on the opposite side of the road and came to rest on the floor of an upstairs room between partition wall and bed.
The other bomb hit Trinity Schools, wrecking the buildings, as can be seen by this photo. | Format: | IMAGE/JPEG | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | South Tyneside Libraries | Rights holder: | Cleet James Henry | Subjects: | War World Two | Source: | South Tyneside Images | Identifier: | http://www.southtynesideimages.org.uk/fr... | Language: | EN-GB | Format: | IMAGE/JPEG | Go to resource |
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