Barrington Street - Gazette Offices, looking north

Barrington Street - Gazette Offices, looking north

Image Details

Title Barrington Street - Gazette Offices, looking north
Reference Number STH0000183
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. A large area of properties were devastated along with the Shields Gazette and printing works which received a direct hit by heavy calibre bombing. The whole of the printing department was wrecked and part of the offices. There were no casualties.