Thorndyke Street-Belfast Blitz Mural


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Reference WMO/292144

Address:

Thorndyke Street

Belfast

BT5 4QB

Northern Ireland

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Painting
Materials:
  • Metal Metal (any)
  • Other Other
Lettering: Other
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Mural painted on the gable end of a house. More recently Belfast City Council have added one of a series of metal plaques. For Air Raid 'Warden' Phares Hill Welsh I have added an explanatory comment to the Civil Defence memorial record-WMO/245686. Like many of these City Council plaques the number of lives stated as lost is debateable. One 250 kg bomb exploded at the street, and overall 26 lives were lost, 18 on Thorndyke Street, 9 of them at the shelter. The Civil Defence records stated that it exploded 45 yards from the shelter causing it to partly collapse, but evidence given at the inquests by eye witnesses state that the shelter received a direct hit. Four of the nine killed in the street had just left the shelter and are sometimes conflated into the shelter figures giving 13. However all records concur that 18 died on the street, so it is unclear where a figure of 20 is derived from. On nearby streets 8 smaller bombs were dropped in the same raid.
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Mural- ON THE 15TH-16TH APRIL 1941 THE/GERMANS BOMBED BELFAST AND HUNDREDS/OF PEOPLE DIED. THE FOLLOWING WHERE [sic]/RESIDENTS OF THORNDYKE STREET WHO LOST THEIR LIVES:-/[7 names]/ ALSO KILLED IN THORNDYKE STREET AIR RAID SHELTER/WERE ARP WARDENS/[2 names]; Plaque-BELFAST 1941/BLITZ/Thorndyke Street/20/lives lost here/Belfast/City Council.

Residents- Hamilton Irvine/ Hamilton McClements junior/ Hamilton McClements/ Agnes McClements/ Thomas William Bleakley/ May Wherry/ John Wherry; ARP Wardens-Joseph Bell/Phares Hill Welsh

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