HISTORIC BUILDINGS
DAMAGED OR DESTROYED IN LONDON ST. CLEMENT DANES GUTTED. QUEEN'S HALL COMPLETELY WRECKED. ißy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, May 15. St. Clement Danes, which was damaged in previous raids is now completely gutted. The walls and tower are all that remain. An oil bomb hit the Queen's Hall, which was burned out. The roof has fallen in. The building is completely wrecked. Damage to the British Museum necessitated closing the reading rooms. Stone’s chop-house, -which was started in 1770. has been demolished by bombs. The Czech Red Cross building and the Shaftesbury Theatre were also wrecked. The Archbishop of Canterbury was sleeping in Lambeth Palace when incendiary bombs fell on the palace. Nearly all were extinguished, but the roof of the chapel was set on fire and it was burned out. Thousands of books in the Palace Ecclesiastical Library were destroyed. The Archbishop of I Canterbury was not injured.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 May 1941, Page 6
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155HISTORIC BUILDINGS Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 May 1941, Page 6
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