Bomb Damage Records and Smoke Orders

1. Record of location of aerial bombs on the City of Manchester, City Architect's Department (Building Surveyor's Division), 1 volume

Divided by inspectors' districts

Original map: Ordnance Survey Revisions of 1932-1935. Scale: 25' to 1 mile.

Annotated with: red circles for fire bombs; blue circles for high explosives; pink shading for damaged buildings; red shading for demolished buildings; green marks: line mines. Available online - see url field below.

2. Index cards including returns of war damage to property for Cable Street to Exchange Street (arranged alphabetically, no other records survive), 1 bundle.

Includes address, owner, occupier, date of damage, type of bomb, type of property, type of damage: roof/walls/floors/general, inspector's name, date of assessment.

3. Index cards including war damage to residential property (for City of Manchester) - arranged by planning area (see bomb damage map for reference), 1 bundle. Includes district, sector, street, incident, date inspected, inspector's name, address number, extent of damage, summary. Created by Housing Department.

4. Same cards arranged alphabetically by street name, 1 bundle. Includes district, sector, street, incident, date inspected, inspector's name, address number, extent of damage, summary. Created by Housing Department.

5. Smoke orders Volume 6: includes name, address, date, fine, date signed, 1 volume, Oct 1902-Dec 1908, indexed.

6. Smoke orders Volume 9, Jun 1928-Oct 1937, indexed.

7. Smoke orders No number, not indexed:

Apr 1938-May 1958 Black Smoke

Nov 1938-Apr 1987 Smoke Other Than Black

Nov 1950-Apr 1958 Notices

8. Card index cabinet containing the rest of the bomb damage index cards.