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Difficult though it is to believe when you see it, this delightful little church was restored in 1950 having been badly damaged by bombs during an air raid in 1940.

The Cavendish Hotel, the tall building of 1873 to 1882 with steep French pavilion roofs and a higher central tower, lost its right-hand half to World War II bombs and was rebuilt in insensitive modern

Dover was known as 'Hellfire Corner' in the last war, as it was bombed and shelled and many buildings were destroyed.

The town was a regular target for bombing raids during the Second World War because of its close proximity to the Woolwich Arsenal.

This ornate structure was destroyed by enemy bombing during the Second World War.

This ornate structure was destroyed by enemy bombing during the Second World War.

There were nearly 150 of them when this photograph was taken - many were destroyed later by World War II bombing.

Other targets for fire-bombing included Farrington Hall and Leuchars railway station.

Above it is the spire of All Hallows-by-the-Tower, which had just been restored following Second World War bombing.

Older houses nearby were destroyed or damaged by a Second World War landmine, Aylesbury's only wartime bomb, which fell close to the pond.

The right-hand terraces with their shop blinds were bombed in 1943, and were replaced by the less interesting Arndale Shopping Centre of 1981.

The centre was heavily bombed during World War II, and a new shopping area was built at Broadmead, beyond the tower.

Here they designed and tested triggering devices for the British nuclear bomb, using conventional explosives and centrifugal testing methods.

Margate suffered from both bombing and shelling during the First World War, and many people left the town.

It is surprising to learn that the town was bombed repeatedly during the last war and an amazing 3% of the population were casualties.

During the Second World War the scientist Barnes Wallis experimented with his famous bouncing bomb along this stretch of the Channel.

Only St John the Baptist's church and a couple of houses nearby escaped from the bombs intended for the port and the railway station.

During World War II the forest was laid with temporary roads and was used as a bomb dump and collection point for tanks and other equipment in preparation for the D-day invasion of Europe.

The last house on the right (which appears in the photograph showing The George in 1924 on pg. 60 and opposite) was destroyed by a bomb in 1940.

Heavy bombing during the Second World War led to the redesign of the traffic system and yet another rebuilding of the pub.

Across the cobbled street only the building for the then Reading Gas Company survives, central Reading's only World War II bomb having hit the area beyond.

Part of Church Street was destroyed in an air raid in 1941, but misguided development and unrestricted traffic growth have since done far more damage to the townscape than German bombs.

But alas, they are no more to be seen, as the building was destroyed on 1943 by the same bomb that damaged the Parade House.

The early Saxon town was attacked several times by Danish raiders, was destroyed by the French in 1340 and 1690, and badly bombed during the Second World War.