Ambleside Avenue, looking east to back of Harton Moor Laundry

Ambleside Avenue, looking east to back of Harton Moor Laundry

Image Details

Title Ambleside Avenue, looking east to back of Harton Moor Laundry
Reference Number STH0000182
Photographer Amy Celia Flagg
Town or Village South Shields
Date 30 September 1941
Original Format Black and White Photograph
Period c1940s
Copyright South Tyneside Libraries
Further Information At 21.09 hours on the evening of 30 September 1941 South Shields experienced wide spread bombing. Two bombs fell on Commercial Road; one struck the foundations of an old house on the bankside below Smith's Foundry, ricocheted and passed through the exterior wall of a house on the opposite side of the road and came to rest on the floor of an upstairs room between the partition wall and bed. The other bomb hit Trinity Schools, wrecking the buildings. At Harton Dye Works the main buildings were wrecked by another 1,000kg bomb which fell in the centre of the works; all the machinery was destroyed.  Other properties in the area were damaged by three bombs which fell close by, Ambleside Avenue was one of them. There were no casualties other than a soldier who was wounded whilst on sentry duty.