Bombing aftermath

Thanks for confirming my thoughts, GC

CD has another image of this Bus looking the other way - you can see the same Lamp post -

Here's a good one (making light of what was a German Bomb dropped on us!) I've no idea about the back story to this but this image was taken outside a property at the junction of Swan Lane and Swancroft Road sometime after the War. I would've expected (!) that it had been checked by Defence authorities to be de-fused as apparently it was left sat there right up until the 1970's! Anyway it was finally put to some good use - I'm told that's the same Bomb casing on display still today as part of the Blitz exhibition in the Motor Museum

Ah, that must be "Herman", which Paul Maddocks mentions in his super Creating the Blitz Experience article over on Historic Coventry. He says that it had originally landed on the Humber factory in Humber Road!

I remember a bomb displayed by the doorstep of a house in Swan Lane, just up from the Co-op dairy on the corner of Swancroft Road.

Rob see the picture of it in my post#213

The very bomb!

I remember that bomb, I wonder what happened to it.

Tricia post#213

Well, it didn't go BOOM did it. I wonder who moved it !!!!

I thought you might like to see this remarkable picture of the collapsing frontage, the date of the newspaper also confirms that it occurred in April 1941 and not in the big November raid as captioned.

I believe this damage is the result of one of the April raids. Presumably J Lyon's had built a temporary shop on their bombed site after the November Blitz, you can see the edge on the left of the first image, and it looks as though a large bomb has created a crater in the roadway outside. Maybe the caravan (?) with 'Chocolates' on the front was theirs as well. The 3 boxes piled up outside also feature in the second photo taken from another angle.

Hi rocksolid, welcome to the forum Great observation matching the building in the two images of Hertford Street I'm not that familiar with Hertford Street and wasn't aware of a building with a triangular pediment before the war. In your second post, another great observation. I don't believe that it's the shop in the photo in moriarty's comment here at number 4 but it must have been its first temporary shop. You can even see similar stacks of boxes. How frustrating it must have been for Lyons.