Published
Taken and compiled by R. Allen Benjamin - Photographer - Bell Building - Dartmouth N.S.
Item consists of souvenir booklet of photographs documenting the Bedford Magazine Explosion of July 1945. Images show smoke from the explosion; damaged buildings, homes, and vehicles, including the Magazine staff house: ; fire-fighting crew and men and women gathered for a meal in the Elkins Barrack mess-hall in Eastern Passage. Images are not identified; however newsclippings indicate what some images are.
Donated in 2013 by Jim Scott , father-in-law of Sybil McRae, whose father Lionel Davis, was an Artilleryman manning the harbour defence batteries at Halifax.
Low resolution image attached. Please contact the archives for a high-resolution copy.
Reproduction and use permitted. Please credit photographer Allen Benjamin and Halifax Municipal Archives (HMA) plus the retrieval code.