Sujet

Court 20, Little Park Street, Coventry, 1941. Creator: George Bernard Mason.

Légende

Court 20, Little Park Street, Coventry, 1941. The exterior of numbers 5 and 6, Court 20, accessed between 92 and 93 Little Park Street, showing the roof covered by tarpaulin. Coventry City centre was devastated by air raids in November 1940. The bombing left the cathedral in ruins and destroyed much of the historic fabric of the city. Court number 20 was situated to the rear of Little Park Street which suffered significant damage in the aerial bombardment. Much of the street was demolished in the years following the war. The Magistrates Court now occupies this site.

Date

1941

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Historic England Archive

Notre référence

HRM21B16_058

Model release

Non

Property release

Non

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

69,8Mo (3,6Mo) / 47,7cm x 36,7cm / 5632 x 4330 (300dpi)

Mots clés

exterior outdoors building buildings England destruction house houses country British English war location century Britain wartime concept B&W 1940s warfare west midlands Forties bombed World War II World War two WWII bombing black & white black and white B W world war 2 20th century air raid Blitz aerial warfare bomb damage Coventry decade Second World War TGN WW2 outside street photograph 2nd World War Little Park Street George Bernard Mason Mason George Bernard Historic England