{"id":1697,"date":"2022-04-22T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2022-12-15T15:35:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T15:35:06","slug":"22-april-1941-tuesday-belfast-1941-blitz-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/22\/22-april-1941-tuesday-belfast-1941-blitz-diary\/","title":{"rendered":"22 April 1941 (Tuesday) \u2013 Belfast 1941 Blitz Diary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"section-g7ce76e\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-e6 section-g7ce76e gutentor-element gutentor-element-image\"><div class=\"gutentor-element-image-box\"><div class=\"gutentor-image-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"normal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/NW-22.4.41-p.2.jpg\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester toured severely damaged areas of Belfast. The Northern Whig believed some people had fled \u2018more likely to selfishness than fear\u2019 but thought that people should \u2018press on, stimulated by our Royal visitors, to get back to work\u2019.<a id=\"_ftnref1\" href=\"#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> It reported that the Duke got a \u2018warm welcome\u2019.<a id=\"_ftnref2\" href=\"#_ftn2\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"section-g8f5af6\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-e6 section-g8f5af6 gutentor-element gutentor-element-image\"><div class=\"gutentor-element-image-box\"><div class=\"gutentor-image-thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"normal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/NW-22.4.41-p.1.jpg\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ABOUT<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Between 7<sup>th<\/sup> April and 6<sup>th<\/sup> May 1941, four aerial bombing raids on Belfast killed over 900 people, injured 1,500 and damaged about half of the city\u2019s homes. Thousands were made homeless and over 100,000 residents fled to the country. This period in Belfast\u2019s history has become known as the Belfast Blitz. To mark the 81<sup>st<\/sup> anniversary, key events each day over the Blitz period are being retold here on this website and also on Twitter (@drtomstours).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" id=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Northern Whig, 22 April 1941, p.1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" id=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> Northern Whig, 22 April 1941, p.2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester toured severely damaged areas of Belfast. The Northern Whig believed some people had fled \u2018more likely to selfishness than fear\u2019 but thought that people should \u2018press on, stimulated by our Royal visitors, to get back to work\u2019.[1] It reported that the Duke got a \u2018warm welcome\u2019.[2] ABOUT Between 7th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-34"],"blocksy_meta":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drtomstours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}