photograph
1940; 1969; 23.8.1940; 1939-1945
LMGLM:2007.33.334
Summary: photograph, black and white, row of shops, including Halifax Building Society, showing bomb damage in New Milton following air raid 23rd August 1940, mostly in Station RoadIdentification note: possibly copied in 1969, 'ex-Kirkman' on back. Bomb damage at the Halifax Building Society and the Misses Loveless’ drapers shop on Station Road in August 1940....
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Summary: photograph, black and white, row of shops, including Halifax Building Society, showing bomb damage in New Milton following air raid 23rd August 1940, mostly in Station Road
Identification note: possibly copied in 1969, 'ex-Kirkman' on back. Bomb damage at the Halifax Building Society and the Misses Loveless’ drapers shop on Station Road in August 1940. Miraculously no-one in the draper’s shop was killed - five girls survived by sheltering under the counter.