via A Fire Watcher on the Town Hall in the Manchester Blitz
Town Hall extension (Rates Hall) 31 March 1938. Arthur Bell’s work place (C) Manchester Libraries
Town Hall Aerial View 1930. It was the left – east side of the building that was damaged in the Blitz © Manchester Libraries M80335
Town Hall in 1950 © Manchester Libraries
Bomb damage to Manchester Assizes Court from1940. © Manchester Libraries
City Architects Dept. Map of Bomb damage, showing damage to the Town Hall from and incendiary bomb on 23rd December 1940. © Manchester City Council
Buildings surrounding a bus station in Manchester burning after a German air raid on the night of 23 December 1940. © IWM (H 6322)
17th Battalion Manchester Regiment on the Somme 