Wednesday 3rd January 1945 At 8.44 a.m. in the morning the mobile German V2 battery unit 444, operating in the Hague area of occupied Holland
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How celebrated ‘spymistress’ Vera Atkins helped protect Chelsea during the Blitz
Vera Atkins is one of the most famous woman intelligence officers of the Second World War because she was responsible for running women Special Operations
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
Trying to find out the truth about Chelsea Hero GP Dr Richard Castillo’s murder in 1961
If any government authority knows it will always be able to find absolute or qualified statutory exemptions, and there are 23 of them, to refuse
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