Blitz Incidents: The Whiteley's bomb - 22nd October 1940 Information on what happened at Whiteley’s after dark on Tuesday 22nd October is very hard to come by. The facts seem to be as follows: A bomb hit the building at 9.45pm It struck the south end of the building at the corner of Queensway and Porchester Gardens (so on the left of the postcard view above) It exploded in the basement, causing some internal walls to collapse A gas main was ignited, causing a fire The ‘all clear’ sounded at 11pm It took until daylight for the fire to be adequately controlled to begin rescue work It took four days to find the last of the casualties A fireman was among those killed
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