Well, you know what they say about the differences between European and American history and geography (100 years vs 100 miles.)
Sheffield was already a big industrial city well before WW2, and of course the steel industry made it a target. (I have no idea why the shopping area got flattened while the Victorian town hall escaped and City Hall, which is an old fashioned music venue, just had a few shrapnel scars; most of the Victorian railway station survived, too.)
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Date: 2007-08-16 03:28 pm (UTC)Sheffield was already a big industrial city well before WW2, and of course the steel industry made it a target. (I have no idea why the shopping area got flattened while the Victorian town hall escaped and City Hall, which is an old fashioned music venue, just had a few shrapnel scars; most of the Victorian railway station survived, too.)