Upper Thames Street / Arthur Street

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This is the OS map extract from 1957 presumably showing the AP2 Location
Source: OS Map 1957-63 Scale=1:1250



This Aerial Photo from 1946 doesn't show an AP2 anywhere in that area.



A later OS map shows the PA3 gets resited across the street, no evidence of that just yet.

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I've managed to locate the AP2 for this location, although I'm not sure which of the resites this one is.
It doesn't look like the war was kind to this area, so this photo being in 1958 is a bit more built up than the holes of 12 years before in 1946.

Source: Collage - 35871 - 1958
View of Arthur Street looking along Upper Thames Street. 

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Wow. Amazing to see the damage in that area from the war - and all the rubble cleared away.

I wonder if the box in question has been hit too?

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Wow. Amazing to see the damage in that area from the war - and all the rubble cleared away.

Actually the damage you see is mostly caused by the cleanup crews.
The bombs destroyed structural stability in the initial hit, and the resulting fires gutted everything else.

The Cleanup crews I think in 1942 went around and knocked down all the unsafe buildings.
There are some Crazy pictures of Cripplegate Area, Around St.Pauls, and this area by the Thames.
Take a look on www.britainfromabove.org.uk to see some of the aerial photos that show the widest area.

I linked to a video about the City of London Mayor (1960) that shows the basic plans for reconstruction from 1960 to 2005 and you can see how they followed through with it over the next 50 years.
Cripplegate / Barbican area especially became much more livable for permanent residence.
While other areas just got fancy new buildings of which the glass monstrosities are easily identifiable against the older buildings.