Bomb Incidents

Volunteers and students have worked exceptionally hard researching civil defence records held at Westminster City Archives in order to give you a picture of what life was like in the West End during the war. 

" It was a privilege to handle the City of Westminster and St Marylebone Civil Defence records, key primary sources for the period. I could follow the response to individual bomb incidents, minute-by-minute, in pencilled messages written under extreme pressure. The 70-year old documents had a fire-damaged smell about them: the actual atmosphere of the Blitz". WEAW volunteer.

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