Church Street, Hartlepool showing bomb damage caused to the Edgar Phillips building next to the Yorkshire Penny Bank. Three people were killed in the blast.

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View looking up Church Street, Christ Church at top of image.  On the left of the image we have the Shades pub and that just up we have the Atheneum.  On the right the Old Yorkshire Penny Bank taken before the bombings during WWII

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Picture showing bomb damage to the building next to the Yorkshire Penny Bank, Church Street, West Hartlepool.

Surveying the damage caused during an air raid at 12.50am on 28 August 1940. The premises of Edgar Phillips was completely destroyed & the Clarence Hotel & Yorkshire Penny Bank were later demolished because of structural damage. Three people were killed in the blast.

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The exposed wall of the Yorkshire Penny Bank after the air raid on 28 August 1940 destroyed Edgar Phillips' shop premises. All that remains of the flats that were above the shop are a picture on one level & a fireplace with a mirror above on the top level. Note the soldier with his bayonet on the roof.

Damage to Yorkshire Penny Bank's clock which stopped at the time of the air raid in August 1940 which destroyed the Edgar Phillips' shop premises next door.

View up Church Street, c.1900, showing Christ Church in the background, the York Penny Bank on the right and the Shades Hotel on the left.

Taken from near Lynn Street, the  image shows the original Yorkshire Bank which was badly damaged by a German bomb in August 1940.

The Exchange Building is on the right and next to it the Electric Showrooms.

The sign on the lamp post reads 'Next bus Rift House'

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