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MPX5122471: Firemen outside the Guildhall after the night of bombing on 29th December 1940 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5122475: WW2 Air Raid Damage Bomb damage in Cardiff - people survey the wreckage and rubble caused by the air raid bombs, c. 1941 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5122480: V2 damage at Middlesex St, Aldgate East. Firemen working on a Norwegian Naval training building, 10 November 1944 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5122497: Rescue operation on City Road after daylight raid, 11th October 1940 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5122501: Fires raging around St Paul's Cathedral during the night of bombing on 29th December 1940 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5122523: Winston Churchill at Tufton Street, Westminster after a V1 rocket landed, 1st JULY 1944 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5122638: All that remains of St Michael's Cathedral following the air raid, 15th November 1940 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5122641: 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) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5122646: 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'.' 15th November 1940 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5122648: 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) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5122649: 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) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5122655: Firemen seen here fighting the fire at the Queens Hotel in Hertford Street, Coventry, 15th November 1940 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5122678: All that remains of St Michael's Cathedral following the air raid of the 14th November 1940 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5123440: Land girls on their way home from the field in military area East Anglia The crops have to be harvested within fourteen days c. 1942 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5123782: London Blitz Bomb Damage 1940 WW2 Smoke rises from behind the dome of St Pauls Cathedral after the first daylight bombing raid by the Luftwaffe (German Airforce) on the docks and the East End of London on 7th September 1940 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5123815: A mother tends to her young son in an underground bomb shelter during an air raid while her daughter settles into a bed made from a wooden fruit box, 23rd September 1940 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5124183: V1 (Robotplane) damage on Rosebery Avenue. Firemen and rescue services at work, 6th July 1944 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5124708: Eros returns to Piccadilly Circus following the end of the second world war. June 1947 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5126118: A female factory worker stirring strawberries to be made into jam at Wisbech Smedleys factory which will be sent on to the troops fighting all over the world during the Second World War. 6th October 1943 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5126170: Conscientious objector Sidney Spencer on his way to plead his case at Liverpool tribunal. 25th March 1941 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5126341: Iris Miriam Deeley - WAAF - murdered by Gunner Ernest James Harman Kemp of the Royal Artillery near Well Hall Railway Station, Eltham on Valentines Day, 14th February 1944 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5126422: Iris Miriam Deeley - WAAF - murdered by Gunner Ernest James Harman Kemp of the Royal Artillery near Well Hall Railway Station, Eltham on Valentines Day, 14th February 1944 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5126445: Iris Miriam Deeley - WAAF - murdered by Gunner Ernest James Harman Kemp of the Royal Artllery near Well Hall Railway Station, Eltham on Valentines Day, 14th February 1944 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5127363: Sixteen year old Vera Mary Stone blowing glass at Prestons on West Street, Sheffield during World War Two. June 1942 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5127386: Ninety three year old General Sir Ian Hamilton returns to his London home following his participation in the march from Horseguards Parade to Westminster Abbey for a Church parade organised by the South African War Veterans Association, c. June 1946 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5127401: Prime Minister visits Britain's front line. Mr Winston Churchill paid a visit on Wednesday to Dover and Ramsgate where he inspected air raid damage and met local A.R.P workers. Despite the fact there was an almost continuous air raid warning during his visit the Prime Minister carried on unperturbed. He saw an air battle in which two machines were shot down into the sea in front of him. Picture shows:- Winston Churchill leaving a small hotel at Ramsgate which had been wrecked an hour or two earlier. 29th August 1940 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5127499: Bellringers baby at victory peal. Jimmy Booker, ten months, goes every Sunday to the village church at Shoreham, Kent with his Mum and Dad who are in the bellringing team. Today was his big day helping to ring the victory peals. 28th August 1945 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5127501: Baby in the belfry. Sitting happily in his pram, watching the efforts of his mummie and daddy and cocking an ear as the peals ring out is ten month old Jimmy Booker the bellringers baby at Shoreham, Kent. His parents Dad third from the left and his mum next to him take young Jimmy with them to the church every Sunday morning when they go to do their stuff in the bellringing team 26th August 1945 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5127956: King George VI in Nuneaton, near Coventry. The King and Queen Elizabeth visited the area after the air raids in Coventry during November 1940 and April 1941. King George VI chats to Sir William Durdale, chairman of Warwickshire County Council, 25th, February 1942 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images