On the basis of many years of research it has become clear that on the Home Front around 500 to 600 people were killed in
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The Paultons Square trench shelter tragedy- October 20th 1940
Trench shelters were a rapid and quick build solution for the construction of public air raid refuges in London during the Second World War. They
Church of the Holy Redeemer and Upper Cheyne Row disaster- 14th September 1940.
It was Saturday 14th September 1940 and the eighty or so Chelsea people packed into the crypt of the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy
Remembrance at Goldsmiths- a question of resilience?
Armistice Day- the eleventh day of the eleventh month symbolises the UK’s immeasurable losses to armed conflict in the Great War of 1914 to 1918.
The ‘Big Bomb’ in Shawfield Street- Friday 1st November 1940.
Contemporary images of Shawfield Street in 2022 by Tim Crook. Shawfield is a rather unassuming street running south for about a quarter of a mile