Above Bar Street
30 November 1940 · Southampton, Hampshire
View this record on the map →- Date
- 30 November 1940
- Record type
- Historic bombing area
- Bomb type
- incendiary
- Location
- Southampton, Hampshire
- Position accuracy
- Rough area
What happened
Southampton's principal shopping street, including the Regal Cinema and Above Bar Church, was gutted in the raid of 30 November 1940.
Casualty note
No site-specific figure. 137 people were killed across Southampton on 30 November 1940, and 214 across the raids of 23 and 30 November together.
Also worth knowing
Around 45,000 buildings across the town were damaged or destroyed during the campaign — proportionally the heaviest housing loss of any UK city, at 12.5 per cent of stock. Southampton's war dead totalled 631.