After all these years!

This image may not look very special, but there is a story attached to it which makes the image significant!  It is in fact a bomb crater from the Second World War in a little corner of the Stormont Estate, it's located about half a mile from yesterday's image at the bottom of the processional road to Parliament Buildings.

A stick of bombs was dropped in May 1941 and one of the bombs caused this.  It was never filled in and I did hear that in the 1950s and 1960s it was used as a pit to burn confidential waste paper.  Today it is protected by a fence around it and a small plaque explaining what it is.

If you look carefully at the houses on the other side of the trees you can see that the middle house is of a different design, this is because another bomb from the same aircraft blitzed the original house.  As a child I was raised about three quarters of a mile from this location.