After the bomb
Destruction after the first Atomic Bomb was exploded over Hiroshima on the 6th August 1945 . I'm not going to talk about this incident , it is a well known fact of what happened and is now history .
The remains off the Shimomura Jewellers shop made in 1928 from ferro cement . Its eye-catching clock tower supported clock faces on all 4 sides . The building was approximately 620 Mts from the epicentre of the bomb explosion . The business was on Hirataya - cho now Hondori St near where the Shimura Watch Shop was in 1946 . So what you see is the top floor only of the shop and its supported tower . The bottom floor had totally disintegrated leaving the remains of the building leaning precariously in the rubble .
Original photo , could be a commercial image of very limited production . Original size 142 x 105 mm ? now 142 x 91 mm , sadly my late Father who had dementia in his final years and had cut the bottom of these photos which had hand printing in a white ink ( scratched into negative ) crudely printed .
Terrible Sight by Atomic Bomb at Hiroshima .
7 Photos is this series .
Hiroshima 1946
Japan
Private Family Collection .
After the bomb
Destruction after the first Atomic Bomb was exploded over Hiroshima on the 6th August 1945 . I'm not going to talk about this incident , it is a well known fact of what happened and is now history .
The remains off the Shimomura Jewellers shop made in 1928 from ferro cement . Its eye-catching clock tower supported clock faces on all 4 sides . The building was approximately 620 Mts from the epicentre of the bomb explosion . The business was on Hirataya - cho now Hondori St near where the Shimura Watch Shop was in 1946 . So what you see is the top floor only of the shop and its supported tower . The bottom floor had totally disintegrated leaving the remains of the building leaning precariously in the rubble .
Original photo , could be a commercial image of very limited production . Original size 142 x 105 mm ? now 142 x 91 mm , sadly my late Father who had dementia in his final years and had cut the bottom of these photos which had hand printing in a white ink ( scratched into negative ) crudely printed .
Terrible Sight by Atomic Bomb at Hiroshima .
7 Photos is this series .
Hiroshima 1946
Japan
Private Family Collection .