Homeless children sit in front of their wrecked home, in London's East End during the blitz of World War Two 1940. Londoners sheltering in an underground station during an air raid, 1940.

Outside the Blitz, just under 30,000 additional civilians would be claimed by the war. Casualties among London civilians also occurred due to things like food rationing and U-boat attacks that ...

A total of 348 German bombers - escorted by 617 fighters – unleashed their deadly cargo as far west as Putney, although the East End was hit hardest On This Day: WW2 Blitz begins over London ·Yahoo ...

A fundraiser has begun to refurbish the graves of six volunteer firefighters from Cornwall who were killed during the Blitz of World War Two. The men, from Saltash, went to Plymouth to help put ...

These are the war-time memories of my mother, Mrs Gladys Hayes, nee Stone, formerly of 49, Newlyn Road, London N17. She was one of 11 children and died in 1993 at the age of 79. She had planned to ...

My mum, Polly Bates spent the whole of the war living in central London. She was 38 when the War ended. Her husband was in the army, fighting the war as were three of her four brothers.