Interesting picture by my BIL
 

Not many like this this: Be sure to read the caption.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1522697260.jpg

I sort of recall seeing either in person near London or on the internet that some bombed row houses were structurally reinforced with external supports that looked like scaffolding. Just talking.

Cool. Here's a Google Earth pic, FWIW.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1522706871.jpg

I did a cursory search on the internet for bombing by the Germans on Belfast in 1945. I did not see anything that late in WW2. Having said that the Luftwaffe did bomb some parts of Ireland in an attempt to destroy strategic plants in Ireland in 1941.

I did remember going through Leeds, Yorkshire in Northern England and seeing some bombed out buildings in the 1950's.Ireland was supposed to be neutral in WW2 but some production plants got nailed anyway.

41 for sure... don't see anything in '45... don't think they were bombing anything W of France by then...

BBC - iWonder - The Blitz: Bombs over Belfast

My father was a 15 year old, growing up in Belfast at the time of the Blitz.
He told me about huddling in the shelters in fear, while the bombs, and incendiaries rained down around the city.

At some point, my grandmother sent him off to her family farm, while she stayed in Belfast to tend to her store.

Thanks for posting the BBC link, and also the picture from Gainsborough Dr.
I'm sure dad would have been familiar with that neighborhood.

Looking at Google Maps, the lot to the right in the pic is all rubble and old foundations...
This is a new building... wonder if they duplicated the old.

1945?

thought the luftwaffe was pretty well spent by that point. did they get hit by a V-1?

Just spoke to him, my BIL, and he was born in '35 so he's made a mistake. It was the air raids of '41. He said it was terrifying. His parents wouldn't go to a shelter,
they huddled in stairways instead.

Must have. If you look at the older version of the street-view pics, there were no houses on that side of the street at all (including #44):

2008 Street View

2014 Street View

Stumbled across this when Googling as well:

Belfast Blitz Then And Now