The primary target at this stage was not the civilian population but, given that employees lived near the docks and factories, the ‘collateral damage ... Blitz of WW2, sometimes known as the ...

The Blitz was Nazi Germany's sustained aerial bombing ... (Getty Images) Firemen who fought the Second Great Fire of London recall fighting the fires until New Year 1941, in a film by J.B. Priestley.

No man risked more to alert Americans, and the world, to the human drama of Britain’s existential struggle during the horrific months, in 1940, of the London Blitz. “You burned the city of ...

Developers made a start on 47 new projects in cities outside London last year according to Deloitte’s regional crane survey, which monitors construction in the central areas of Leeds ...

The tunnels, which are a mile (1.6 km) long and tall enough in parts to fit a double-decker bus, lie under Holborn in central London. They were dug by hand starting in late 1940, when German planes ...

By 1942, when the purpose-built tunnels were finished, the Blitz had ceased so they were never used for shelter. "It's real. It's emotional," said Angus Murray, chief executive of The London ...