London received over 44 days worth of alerts in a 5 month period during the Blitz

This short articles, published in the local newspaper, reports the number of hours which London had been on alert since the enemy air offensive began in August 1941 to  mid-January 1942. To give an idea of how intense the bombing was, it is reported that Hull received just over 1,00 hours of alerts during the whole of the Blitz! 1,056 Hours of Alerts in London According to a calculation by a news agency reporter, who has kept a daily log of alerts since the enemy air offensive on a big scale was…

London Carries on – Spirit of the People

This news report featured in the Bromley & District Times in mid-October 1940 and gives an insight into how life carried on as normal for the residents of London during the Blitz of 1940.   LONDON CARRIES ON 35-MILE TOUR AFTER THE BLITZKRIEG THE SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE The early morning train was crowded, and subsequent stops, and we were soon speeding along side by side with other trains, equally crowded with men and women, boys and girls, all headed for London. Surely not for London after the Blitzkrieg visitations…

Burial of Air Raid Casualties

The idea seems to have gained currency in some districts where there have, unhappily, been fatal air-raid casualties, that such persons are buried, more or less unceremoniously, in a public grave. That is a wrong impression altogether, and that it should exist at all is very distressing. While it is true that the local authority for the area concerned may take charge of the funeral arrangements and may bury the casualties at the public expense where it seems desirable, the funeral is never, in any sense of the word, a…