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GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Moor Street Station: gwrms2723

The morning of 10th April 1941 showing the destruction of the annex adjacent to the Moor Street

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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