Market and St. Hilda's Church

Market and St. Hilda's Church

Image Details

Title Market and St. Hilda's Church
Reference Number STH0000198
Photographer James Henry Cleet
Town or Village South Shields
Date 2nd. October 1941
Original Format Black and White Photograph
Period c 1940s
Copyright South Tyneside Libraries
Further Information All the remaining windows of St Hilda's Church were shattered, the roof dislodged and the old stone walls pitted and scarred with
shrapnel.  The result of bombs falling on the Market Place on the evening of the 2nd October 1941. Note the crater on the left of the
picture.