UK announces plans to demolish shell of Grenfell Tower almost eight years after fire that killed 72
London’s Grenfell Tower, which was engulfed in flames more than seven years ago in a disaster that killed 72 people, will be ...
London’s secret World War II tunnels to become the city’s most flamboyant underground attraction. Take a sneak peek
Hidden beneath central London, the Kingsway Exchange Tunnels, once a WWII shelter and base for the Special Operations ...
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The Lasting Legacy of WW2 in London
In may 2022, two undetonated bombs from WW2 were discovered in Poppy Giles’s* southeast London back garden. “I had been living over explosives for ten years,” Giles reveals, “It was a ...
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WW2: Eight months of Blitz terror
Minutes after Neville Chamberlain declares ... What would you have done when the bombs fell? The Blitz of WW2, sometimes known as the London Blitz, was the German bombing campaign that lasted ...
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Huge new London tourist attraction based on World War II tunnels hoped to equal London Eye
Tunnels built to shelter Londoners during World War II bombing by Germany are set to ... lie under Holborn in central London. They were dug by hand starting in late 1940, when German planes ...
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London's WW2 Bomber Command Memorial vandalised
The RAF Benevolent Fund said it will cost thousands of pounds to repair the memorial Vandalism of the Bomber Command Memorial in London has been described as "mindless" and a "disgrace" by Britain ...
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Primary History KS2: WW2 Clips. A reporter describes London on fire
I can see practically the whole of London spread round me…the whole of the skyline to the south lit up with a ruddy glow…the flames are leaping up in the air now…the dome of St Paul's ...