BOMBING OF ST. PAUL’S
Services In Spite Of Damage United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph Copyright LONDON. October 11 In spite of the damage to St. Paul’s Cathedral, the week-day and Sunday services are not being interrupted, as they are being held in St. Faith’s Chapel crypt. At a service held ten hours after the bombing there were forty, including the Cathedral’s A.R.P. workers. Clergy and members of the Cathedral staff and their families were sleeping in the crypt when the bomb fell on the Cathedral. The treasurer, Canon Alexander, said: “My bed was almost under the altar. I thought that the raid was over when suddenly there was a great thump and the whole building shook tremendously. We rushed up, and were horrified with what we saw.” The surveyors’ preliminary report confirms that the Cathedral’s fabric is not affected. Pieces of paper, which were immediately stuck across suspicious cracks, did not reveal deviations.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21784, 14 October 1940, Page 8
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154BOMBING OF ST. PAUL’S Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVIII, Issue 21784, 14 October 1940, Page 8
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