1942 UK: World War 2: Canterbury suffers bombing attack

Date: 1st January 1942

Location: CANTERBURY, ENGLAND

Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)

ENGLAND: Kent: Canterbury:

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GTV damaged street - workers clearing up rubble in same

SCU hauling down wall of badly damaged building with rope

SV traffic in road past many damaged buildings

SV damaged roof of building pan along same to more damaged buildings

SCU smouldering wreckage - two firemen with hose trying to put out the fires, pan of smouldering wreckage

Semi view demolition workers clearing damage - pan of damage

Side view demolition squads at work clearing away damage pan to SCU of neither of the workers looking on

GV damage in street - workers clearing up rubble on pavements

GV of damaged buildings all round smouldering wreckage in foreground, pan of extensive damage and wreckage to buildings

GV two firemen directing hose on to smouldering wrecked building - damaged buildings and pan of same

SBV of firemen using hose on wreckage that is still burning - pan along of wreckage

STV wrecked city buildings and pan showing more of the wrecked city

GV wrecked buildings in foreground - Canterbury Cathedral undamaged behind

SV bombed wreckage some of which is still burning - firemen spraying hoses into smoke pan showing another part of building through thick smoke

SBV firemen working amidst damage and thick smoke

SV smoke pouring out from wrecked building - firemen looking on and using hoses

LV of wrecked buildings still smouldering - firemen at work with hoses - bricks and rubble everywhere

LV wrecked furniture and peoples' belongings stacked up ready to be taken away - pan of same

SV two men stacking unharmed furniture on to lorry

SV pan of undamaged furniture piled up and ready to be taken away, then pan to soldier and woman sitting with it

SCU old woman sitting with her furniture on lorry

SV lorry laden with furniture and other belongings comes towards camera - passes same and scene shows BV of lorry down road

SV three firemen at station drinking soup at table

CU side view of firemen type drinking his soup

SBV demolition workers working in damage

SCU side view of bomb ed-out civilians looking on as damage is being cleared away

SV woman looking on at damage being shifted

SV street with peoples' belongings stacked up on one side pan to extensive damage to shops and houses on the other

SBV demolition workers sorting out timber and bricks from wreckage

SV woman looking at piles of rubble and bricks pan to expense of broken up timber, bricks, and masonry - street completely demolished, demolition workers working on damage

GTV damaged building and piles of broken timber and bricks etc pan to bombed out people looking on at wrecked buildings and to great expense of rubble

SV pan of badly bombed buildings and streets - Cathedral behind them undamaged - people walking in road

LV looking through archway of Canterbury Cathedral - people coming through arch

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SV showing magnificent architecture inside Cathedral roof pan down great pillars to chairs on cathedral floor

This scene now shows a long view of the altar

LV showing altar of Cathedral also great pillars and roof all undamaged

LV pan down from roof of Cathedral to floor set out with chairs and scene now looks up the whole length of the Cathedral

SV looking up aisle of altar and neighbouring parts

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SV of grounds just outside Cathedral where a bomb has fallen pan to part of Cathedral in that region showing that is quite undamaged

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