South Tyneside History
Title | Market and St. Hilda's Church |
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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. |