Image reference: xl01778
Description: A slide of a black and white photograph showing bomb damage in Belle Vue. Council houses in Norton Street were demolished by one bomb dropped in the early hours of Wednesday 28th August 1940. The highly explosive bomb, dropped by the Luftwaffe (the German airforce), caused considerable damage and injured ten people. Bombs were also dropped in Thornes and Ossett during World War II. Internal Reference: WR Box WA number 60
Keywords: House, People, War, Bomb damage
Place name(s): WF1, Belle Vue
Date(s): 1940/08/25
Date added to archive: 20/03/2003
Original rights: Unknown
Permission rights: Wakefield Local Studies Library
Digital rights: WMDC Libraries and Information Services
Digital publisher: WMDC, Education and Cultural Services, Libraries and Information Services
