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GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line
GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton
Moor Street Station: gwrms2723
A photograph taken on the morning of Thursday 10th April
1941 showing the total destruction of the annex adjacent to the Moor Street
Goods Offices. The Goods Offices appear to be structurally intact, but fire
damage is evident. The Goods Offices fronted on to Moor Street and behind them
on the ground floor were Mess rooms and Lavatories for the goods department
staff, while on the first floor was the general Goods Department Office. Next
door on the right was the Woolpack Hotel. Fortunately no injuries were reported
at this location following this particular air-raid.
In the evening of Wednesday 9th April the air-raid alert was
given at 21:31 and lasted until 02:47. During that time 235 German aircraft
dropped 280 tons of high explosive bombs, 40,000 incendiary bombs and 110
unexploded bombs in widespread raids across Birmingham. On the following
evening the air-raid alert was given at 21:40 and lasted until 03:27. This time
245 German aircraft carried out another widespread raid dropping 245 tons of
high explosive bombs and 43,000 incendiaries. Between 9th April and 11th April
the casualties figures totalled 418 killed with a further 470 injured (of whom
14 died later in hospital).
Robert Ferris
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