Among the German targets in Wakefield were the railways, because a huge amount of war material and troops were moved around by railway. One railway target was Charles Roberts’s railway wagon works at Horbury Junction - the type of wagon shown in this photograph was made there to haul ‘Quarrite’, tarred limestone used to build British airfields during the Second World War.

 Even before the War, the Germans had gathered maps and photos of their targets.

There are copies of the German target maps for Wakefield, and some of the target photographs, in Wakefield’s Local Studies Library.