Bridgeman Education

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Rescue operation on City Road after daylight raid, 11th October 1940 (b/w photo)

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Fires raging around St Paul's Cathedral during the night of bombing on 29th December 1940 (b/w photo)

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Ruins of Westminster School, 1940 (b/w photo)

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Firemen and Civil defence teams at work, 1940 (b/w photo)

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Air Raid damage at Kentish Town, London, 19th June 1944 (b/w photo)

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Members of Bucks Fizz - Bobby Gee signs autographs for Wendy Reddall of Gosforth, on his Newcastle visit, 1980 (b/w photo)

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Bank Underground Station, 16th May 1944 (b/w photo)

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Winston Churchill at Tufton Street, Westminster after a V1 rocket landed, 1st JULY 1944 (b/w photo)

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Queen Elizabeth II, King George VI waves farwell to his daughter Princess Elizabeth, as they fly off to Kenya - it was the last she saw her father, 1952 (b/w photo)

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Battersea Power Station and cranes, 21st August 1971 (b/w photo)

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Wigan Casino dancers, 1975 (b/w photo)

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Wigan Casino dancers, 1975 (b/w photo)

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Georgie Fame Singer and Composer, March 1966 (b/w photo)

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Bomb damage at Coventry, 1940 (b/w photo)

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Daily Mirror 'Autumn Bird' Karen Singleton (17) takes a break from working behind her fathers pub, The White Horse Tavern in Westhoughton, Bolton, Lancashire 8th October 1970 (b/w photo)

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Daily Mirror 'Autumn Bird' Karen Singleton (17) takes a break from working behind her fathers pub, The White Horse Tavern in Westhoughton, Bolton, Lancashire 8th October 1970 (b/w photo)

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Daily Mirror 'Autumn Bird' Karen Singleton (17) takes a break from working behind her fathers pub, The White Horse Tavern in Westhoughton, Bolton, Lancashire 8th October 1970 (b/w photo)

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Nana Mouskouri, International Singing Star, is presented with a gold disc for her LP 'Over and Over', at the Savoy Hotel in London 13th April 1971 (b/w photo)

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Daily Mirror 'Autumn Bird' Karen Singleton (17) takes a break from working behind her fathers pub, The White Horse Tavern in Westhoughton, Bolton, Lancashire 8th October 1970 (b/w photo)

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Nana Mouskouri, International Singing Star, in rehearsals for her very own 6 part TV series 'Presenting Nana Mouskouri', 3rd December 1972 (b/w photo)

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Members of Bucks Fizz - Cheryl Baker and Mike Nolan at Newcastle Airport, 1980 (b/w photo)

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Cumbrian rock group Black Widow, 1980 (b/w photo)

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North rock band Battle-Axe, Singer Dave King (centre) shows off the Cadillac to co-managers Robbie Stewart (left) and Derek Vincent, 1980 (b/w photo)

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All that remains of St Michael's Cathedral following the air raid, 15th November 1940 (b/w photo)

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The wreckage of a Junkers Ju88 B3+HH works number 7087 of the I/KG 54 after it hit a barrage balloon cable over Coventry and crashed in Withybrook on 16th September 1940 (b/w photo)

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Wigan Casino dancers, 1975 (b/w photo)

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The city of Coventry shrouded in a cloak of smoke and drizzle as people wandered around in a daze taking in the destruction around them following the air raid of the 14th November 1940. During the raid 4,330 homes were destroyed also three-quarters of the city's factories were damaged along with the city's tram system, with tram lines ripped from the ground or arched into the air. Out of a fleet of 181 buses only 73 remained. Most of the city's gas and water pipes were smashed and people were advised to boil emergency supplies of water. Amongst the devastation lay the bodies of 554 men, women and children many of whom were never identified also 865 people were injured. During the raid the Luftwaffe had dropped 30,000 incendiary bombs, 500 tons of high explosive, 50 landmines and 20 oil-mines. The raid had gone on non-stop for almost eleven hours. The world had never previously witnessed this sort of airborne destruction before and the Germans coined a new word for it 'coventrated'.' 15

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Unidentified gentleman seen here inspecting the damage to the roof of St Michael's Cathedral, Coventry, following the Luftwaffe's air raid on the city on the night of the 14th October 1940. The fire at the Cathedral was quickly seen by the roof watchers on duty at the time. The incendiary bomb crashed through the lead roof and lodge in the space between that and the subsidary roof and was difficult for the fire fighters to deal with. The bombing was over a wide spread area of the city and many of the city's historic landmarks were damaged. Casualties for the raid were - Killed 22; Injured 96, 15th October 1940 (b/w photo)

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The wreckage of a Junkers Ju88 B3+HH works number 7087 of the I/KG 54 after it hit a barrage balloon cable over Coventry and crashed in Withybrook, 16th September 1940 (b/w photo)