Memories of a day seventy years ago.

I took this picture on Sunday 20th March, seventy years ago to the day, when the first German bombs fell on the city in the Second World War, in the spring of 1941.

According to the records, that too was a beautiful spring day.

This is the Unitarian Church in Notte Street.

Twice in the last four months it has found itself at the centre of dramas dating back to those days. It is immediately opposite a demolition site, and on two occasions it has had to be evacuated when unexploded bombs have been uncovered, no more than 25 metres from the church.