Description:Damaged housing in Freer Road from the air-raids of 1942.
Mr Keith Berry has Kindly supplied the following information about this photograph:
"They are number 144, 146 and 148, all of which were too badly damaged to be repaired and they were soon demolished, leaving what we kids of the time called the 'bomb site.' They were rebuilt a few years later and the differences in style between these three new ones and the other houses, even now, are very easy to see."
"At the time of the bomb I was one year old, living at 143 Freer Road, where the tenant was my grandfather, Frank Barson, Aston Villa footballer. The blast threw the entire privet hedge through the front window of 143, but it was otherwise reasonably intact."