A nice modern shot - supplied by one of our legion of Herefordshire VBCW researchers - of Bridge Street, taken from the Wye Bridge. The Black Lion, "Battle Headquarters" for Reichsmarschall Goering's elite Fallschirmjager detachment, can be seen on the left (black and white timber frontage):
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| Bridge Street from the Wye Bridge. King Street at the top. |
Recent excavations have confirmed that the Fallschirmjager maintained two sandbagged MG34 positions either side of Bridge Street, in the approximate position of the modern day traffic lights, stopping and searching any suspicious types seeking entry to the City.
Bridge Street itself has changed little since the VBCW, save only that the Left Bank complex (on the right, pale sandstone frontage) has replaced Sully's Garage, the Headquarters for Lord de Braose's notorious River Wye Dredging Programme.
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| Sully's Garage - Dredging HQ |
Quite how Sully's Garage came to be destroyed can only be a matter of further research, but its replacement by the modern Left Bank building certainly renders "Sully's" one of the great (and mostly unexplained) "architectural losses" from 1930's Hereford....
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