Gibb photograph archive, Volume 2

No. 37 and 39d - Area of Cathedral School from north Cathedral tower, bomb damage.

View from the north tower of the Cathedral looking north-east over the bombed area of the school.

Annotated area of school bomb damageAnnotations by Eric Dare:
A = Bishop of Crediton's palace
B = Where bomb fell on Abbot's Lodge
C = Archdeacon of Exeter's House. His garden abutted the playground wall (His wife suffered a broken nose when a cricket ball flew over the high netting around the playground!)
D—D = Passage from road to playground
E = School playground
F = Singing School
G = Bedford Circus

9, 10, 11, 12 = current (2020) numbering of the Close houses.

Photographs 37 and 39d are identical.