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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Bomb Map Record
Bomb Map Record of Incidents in the City of Westminster 1940-1945
Admiralty Arch
17 April 1941
Bow Street WC2
11 January 1941
55 Broadway SW1
14 October 1940
Buckingham Palace
13 September 1940
Cafe de Paris
8 March 1941
Dolphin Square SW1
22 September 1940
40 Dover Street W1
19 September 1940
Ebury Bridge SW1
21 December 1940
34 Hill Street W1
18 September 1940
Hovis Wharf SW1
11 December 1940
Laundry Yard SW1
11 October 1940
Leicester Square
16 October 1940
National Gallery
12 October 1940
Pall Mall SW1
23 February 1944
Queen's Gate SW7
19 February 1944
QVR Drill Hall W1
30 November 1940
Regent Street W1
11 September 1940
Savile Row W1
16 September 1940
Search for the Lost Fighter Plane
The Story of Ray Holmes and the Buckingham Palace Dornier
St Anne's, Soho
24 September 1940
Strand WC2
16 November 1940
Sussex Street SW1
7-8 September 1940
Trafalgar Square
12 October 1940
The Worst Raid
10-11 May 1941