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AT WAR |
and ST. AUGUSTINE'S |
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© Kent Messenger Group Newspapers* |
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It
is very obvious from these two pictures that the damage in this area was
a disaster. The lovely timbered houses that once lined this approach to
St. Augustine's are gone. Only one house in this whole area survived.
Although St. Paul's to the West managed to miss major damage, Broad Street,
Burgate and Lower Bridge Street, were all badly hit and the house where
the "ever so 'umble" Uriah Heap was once meant to have lived was also
destroyed.
Dated at 1284, the gateway of St. Augustine's, although badly scarred at the time, did survive and has been restored to it former glory. |