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Blitz/Britain/ photo question?
Does somebody recognise this photo? http://fotki.yandex.ru/users/p365/view/242167/?pag...
Where and when was it made? Thank you!
Thank you Victoria. I am afraid that a hedge in front of the terraced houses does not exactly look like a Belorussian feature, does it? :)
Victoria the world is really small. I am actually one of the discussion participants. :) Thank you very much for your time and efforts!!! Виктория, большое Вам спасибо! :)))
Lorenzo, you are right. I mean the houses look like deliberately burnt down not like bombed. The ladies also look more like from 1950s. I am sure it must be Britain but the question is still whether it is Blitz or not.
Thank you guys!
Spiros - Yeah, Coventry was the most obvious but probably somehow misleading suggestion;
George - I am a historian of the USSR. It is definetely not that;
Ragnar - I think I know what you mean :);
Hyprocrite Danger - Thank you that you registered with Yahoo today to answer my question.
Maxi - Thank you a lot!
8 Answers
- MaxiLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
It certainly could be any street of terranced houses in Britian...the clothes are 1950 onwards dress, certainly worn in the UK...........and an after blast of fire damage rather than bombed as the houses are still standing and it looks later than the war as the street lighting includes a telegraph pole with telephone wires hanging which suggests home phones, which were not normal until the later 1950s-60s...also the picket fence as they would have all had privit hedging prior to this, in front of the picket fence ..is it a washing maching/fridge? or furntiure....so that could make it a lot later more like late 1960s-1970s
- 1 decade ago
I do not recognise the scene and the style of housing is unusual. I would suggest that it is not a blitz scene from Britain, the destruction is too regular for that. Perhaps the houses were deliberately and individually made uninhabitable - slum clearance in Britain or scorched-earth policy on the Continent?
- 1 decade ago
I asked the person who posted it, waiting for the answer.
But on the other photos from this album you can see the discriptions, according to them it's Belarus, WWII.
UPD. Yeah, it seems too European :(
UPD2. Just got the answer! It's probably Coventry, UK. He also gave me a link to the discussion in a lj community: http://community.livejournal.com/foto_history/1101... I suppuse you can speak Russian, so take a look.
- robinLv 71 decade ago
It has to be The USSR of one of the countries that was part of the Union. The clothes are not from the WW2 but much later.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
it looks like your house when we nukes and invade your country. you commie lovers.