Jean Baldwin, in Blitzed Plymouth: "Leaving school we're hit by the smell of charred wood & gas from fractured pipes." 3700 houses have been destroyed, leaving thousands homeless. https://t.co/FTA27Liwk5
In Plymouth, a communal air raid shelter in Portland Square has suffered a direct hit from a German high-explosive bomb. 76 people hiding from the Blitz killed. https://t.co/GCoCh2lUdM
German invaders of Yugoslavia have killed 36 Serbian civilians in city of Pancevo, hanging & shooting locals in random reprisal for "partisans" firing at Wehrmacht. https://t.co/vGfElY5ksX
Plymouth racked by bombings; force of explosions has blown a double-decker bus onto the roof of the gutted central bus garage. https://t.co/YK86EQ0Xu8
Luftwaffe now attacking Plymouth in a brutal Blitz- British have lit decoy fires outside town to try & distract bombers, but city is still being smashed. https://t.co/TGPI8SwLfg
German panzer & mountain divisions now assaulting Thermopylae, where Anzac troops are making a last stand to protect the Allied retreat. Australian General Vasey: "Here we bloody well are & here we bloody well stay.” https://t.co/WgjqUGjVus
Allied troops are retreating in Greece via truck & lorry- leaving outflanked Greek soldiers trudging south to try & get away from Germans: https://t.co/rNnDpZ8W5b
New stamp issued to mark Hitler’s birthday; as with all German stamps, postal service pays to license the Führer’s likeness, paying Hitler millions of Reichsmarks. https://t.co/itrkuk1lID
RAF pilot Roald Dahl reports on the “Battle of Athens”: “Wherever I looked I saw an endless blur of enemy fighters whizzing towards me from every side.” https://t.co/4MGEv9aQo2 https://t.co/8OpCYxjLCh
Noel Coward, British writer, actor & spy, reports from bombed London: "I’m at the Savoy. Pretty bad Blitz overhead, but the orchestra kept on playing.” https://t.co/b8zlHxyUw5
London's smouldering from its worst bombing yet; 2300 people died last night, thousands of buildings destroyed; great shopping centre of Oxford Street left devastated: https://t.co/BsDU7jy08X
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FollowVisit August 2015
Bank holiday saw another visit to photograph the bunker. Mold continues to run riot, causing damage to the wall boards.
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- Main Stairs
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- Corridor
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- Plant Room
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- Plant Room
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- Plant Room
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- Plotting room
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- Plotting room viewing gallery
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- Corridor with stairs
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- Lower corridor – showing damage from damp
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- Plotting room showing where tote boards should be
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- Plotting room
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- Plotting room
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- corridor and stairs
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- Phone booth room – very mouldy
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- Battery room.
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- Rear lower corridor
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- Mouldy room
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- Plotting room with rusty safe
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- Synchronome slave clock – still works!
- Dropped in to the bunker today for a routine dehumidifier check. All working well and bunker pretty dry now. Had a… https://t.co/QmRmX6v1Ra
- Not posted for a while - been busy elsewhere - found some interesting booklets though. Will, hopefully end up on di… https://t.co/GkOFdiHyOO
- Found another section of the Ejector room door skin and scraped the wimpey dark green off to reveal more original l… https://t.co/Ft7AoQXEWc
- Popped in this Sunday to check the dehumidifiers and decided to have a quick look at the pile of rubbish in the to… https://t.co/NCT130O8jr
- Another Sunday another clean up session and a bit of door sliding. Once again the Vacmaster donated by… https://t.co/giF5OZfChn