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I lived next to St Paul’s Cathedral as a baby in 1940 – it’s a miracle I am alive

Thousands of Londoners died in the Blitz; twice as many Americans are killed every year in gun-related incidents

5 September 2015

9:00 AM

5 September 2015

9:00 AM

While the Germans were raining bombs on London during the second world war, the architects’ department of London County Council was busy colouring in Ordnance Survey maps of the city to record which buildings had been destroyed and which had not. These maps have now been published as a book by Thames and Hudson, The London County Council Bomb Damage Maps, 1939-45.

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