History

1941

4 - 5 May - 200 GErman Bombers attack Belfast over three and a half hours dropping 95,992 incendiaries and 207 metric tons of explosives. 191 people are killed. The docks area and the city centre are hit hardest: two thirds of Harland and Wolff's premises are destroyed. The 'Fair Head' and three corvettes are sunk. By now 53.5 % of Belfast's housing stock is either destroyed or badly damaged. In the German newspapers, Belfast is headline news.

Opposite is a chilling aerial photograph taken by reconnaissance planes in 1940 that was discovered post-war in a Nazi targeting dossier.  It is centred only a little north of the EBM site area on the many industrial targets around the shipyards and docks, the closest target being 'tankanlage am Conns Water', which is now The Oval. (translation: service station at the Conns Water). Below is a modern day google map showing the same area with EBM located on it.