An image showing 'N26070; A photograph depicting the 1000 kilogram German bomb that was dropped on the M.C.D. Painters Shop, Portsmouth Dockyard, on Easter Sunday 1942, but failed to explode. It is displayed standing on its tail and painted on it is the inscription "An Easter egg from one painter to another". The inscription was devised and painted by Mr P V Jarvis, the foreman of painters. A copy negative produced by the Portsmouth Dockyard official photographer on 26 Nov. 1945. Vertical format.'

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A 1000 kg German bomb dropped on the M.C.D. Painters Shop, Portsmouth Dockyard, Hampshire

A photograph depicting the 1000 kilogram German bomb that was dropped on the M.C.D. Painters Shop, Portsmouth Dockyard, on Easter Sunday 1942, but failed to explode. It is displayed standing on its tail and painted on it is the inscription "An Easter egg from one painter to another". The inscription was devised and painted by Mr P V Jarvis, the foreman of painters. A copy negative produced by the Portsmouth Dockyard official photographer on 26 Nov. 1945. Vertical format.

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Object details

ID:	N26070
Type:	Negative
Materials:	Glass plate negative
Display location:	Not on display
Date made:	26 November 1945
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Overall: 164 mm x 120 mm