Bomb Damage to Queen's Theatre on Mile End Road

Bomb Damage to Queen's Theatre on Mile End Road

Image Details

Title Bomb Damage to Queen's Theatre on Mile End Road
Reference Number STH0000172
Photographer Amy Celia Flagg
Town or Village South Shields
Date 9 April 1941
Original Format Black and White Photograph
Period c1940s
Copyright South Tyneside Libraries
Further Information On the night of 9 April between 23.25hrs and 04.30hrs on the morning of 10 April 1941, two bombs were dropped on Clyvedon Rise. Then came a shower of incendiaries, an estimate of 6,000 fell in the Tyne Dock area throughout the centre of town and over the Mile End Road, River Drive and Wapping Street districts.

It soon became clear that a full scale attack was developing and directed mainly at the ship building, ship repair and timber yards on
the river.

This photo shows the Queens Theatre following this night of destruction.