Blitz over Bath

Reference Number: 0365/3
Level of Description: Item
Title: Blitz over Bath
Date: 1992
Extent: Extent: 1 item
Description: 30 minute video of HTV tv programme. Still images of wartime Bath. Accounts of being bombed and aftermath from people who were chlldren in April 1942 (Harry Lambert, Anne Marks and Kathleen Muse) including loss of family and friends, and looking at names of dead posted outside Guildhall. Newsreel film and accounts of aftermath, mass graves and civic funeral. Rebuilding of Francis Hotel and New King Street. Revisiting trauma of bereavement around 50th anniversary commemoration, Harry Lambert using indexes at Bath Record Office to trace what had happened to his mother and sisters. Haycombe Cemetery staff helping locate them in mass grave
Place Name: Bath (Somerset)
Subject: World War II