Next week marks the 84th anniversary of the Coventry Blitz. Thursday, November 14, 1940, was the night that saw devastation ...
a blitz survivor, said the vigil was to remember those workers who helped to keep others safe A vigil was held in the ruins of Coventry Cathedral to commemorate 83 years since the blitz.
Hundreds of people died as high explosives and incendiaries obliterated the face of the medieval city, including the majestic cathedral of St Michael. It was the most concentrated air raid of the ...
Oscar-winning director Steve McQueen's latest film Blitz portrays what it was like for the ordinary people who had to endure ...
Coventry's Blitz Museum, located in the city's Cathedral Ruins, features a trove of 1940's memorabilia and artefacts to take visitors back in time to World War Two. However, it is now calling on ...
Candles flickered in the silence as people in the city gathered to mark the 83rd anniversary of the Coventry Blitz of November 1940. Locals gathered to light candles in the ruins of the cathedral ...
IT was a defining chapter of World War Two, when Britain stood at the mercy of Hitler as the full force of his Luftwaffe rained down. Now the fiery hell that engulfed towns and cities during ...
Blitz' is an abbreviation of the German word ... of needlessly scaring parents whose children had been evacuated. Coventry, the centre of much of Britain’s war production industry, is attacked ...
dating back to the mediaeval era in the still-smoldering ruins of Coventry Cathedral on the morning after the Midlands city was flattened by the Luftwaffe at the height of the Blitz in November 1940.
Largely rebuilt after the 1940 wartime bombing of the Coventry Blitz, Coventry was the birthplace ... while places of interest include Coventry Cathedral, Ricoh Arena, Belgrade Theatre, Herbert ...
Hence, there is the Blitz experience ... the city will see the road signs describing Coventry as the “city of peace and ...