In cities and towns which received attention from the Luftwaffe such scenes as that pictured above were a commonplace sight during the recent war.

But no bomb ‘winkled out’ this house – it has not yet been built.
Off the Northam Road, Bideford, Mr Arthur Beer has a site for four houses, but only three people with licences for houses to be built. Two of those three wanted end houses, hence the gap in the middle, a commentary on present day building regulations. The slats from the two houses bordering on the gap seem to be stretching out their hands in an endeavour to join up and fill in the gap.

Gazette article dated 7 July 1950