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It has hardly changed today, and the original buildings are still intact; they escaped bomb damage during the Second World War.

It was used as a Canadian hospital in the First World War, and during the Second World War, in November 1940, it was bombed, and has never recovered its former 'sparkle'.

Having been bombed out of their works at Mitcham, Surrey, A C Cossor Ltd were relocated to Chadderton; they were housed in the old Wren Mill which had been converted into a government Shadow factory.

It was here that four bombs fell during the Second World War.

The house was severely damaged by a V1 flying bomb which fell in these well-kept grounds on 21 July 1944, leaving a crater measuring 8 x 14 feet, and the building was subsequently demolished.

A village situated at a crossing of the River Stour, Sturry suffered badly from bomb damage in the Second World War.

For many people around the world, the name 'Warrington' is associated with a terrible atrocity when a bomb blew up causing the death of two young children and maiming many others one Saturday morning in

On seeing the ruined shell of this church today, the visitor may well get the immediate impression that it must have suffered from bombing during the war; but in fact the nave was demolished in 1977

Note echoes of wartime in 'The Bombed Shop'. The cottages at the far end went in slum clearance and were replaced in 1966 by an insensitive shopping precinct with flats over.

He remembered: 'When I started Jack Hardy was a tool setter when they bombed X block, blowing the roof off. Seven were killed in there, along with another 37 elsewhere at the plant.

The bombed corner on the right is now occupied by an office block, with Waterstone's bookshop on the ground floor.

The steps were never heard again after an Elizabethan house was bombed out and a workman found a string of beads.

The window that you can see to the left of the lamp-post now has modern stained glass in it, in wonderful reds and oranges, to depict the flames of the bombing; it was designed as a tribute to the Cathedral

The fine Perpendicular windows have exceptionally beautiful tracery and were added in about 1450, but their glass was shattered by a flying bomb which landed in the churchyard in 1944.

The building was bombed by the Luftwaffe in 1941, during one of the retaliatory raids for the RAF's destruction of the ancient city of Lubeck. It was restored to its former glory in the 1960s.

When Basil Spence designed Coventry's new cathedral, he incorporated the bombed ruins of the old St Michael's into the modern building; the old church became the new cathedral's vestibule.

The photograph shows what remained after the pub was badly damaged by Second World War bombing.

This view, from the south east near Vicarage Road, shows a heavily Victorianised medieval church; it further suffered in 1943 when a bomb blast destroyed all its stained glass.

From Ware Cliffs we can see the medieval Cobb harbour (centre right) and the coastal skyline of Stonebarrow Hill, Golden Cap and Thorncombe Beacon.

The fine Perpendicular windows have exceptionally beautiful tracery and were added in about 1450, but their glass was shattered by a flying bomb which landed in the churchyard in 1944.

The building was bombed during the Second World War and could not be saved.

Across the inner basin from the quay (right) beside the Cobb Warehouses is the 17th-century North Wall (centre), which protects the harbour from easterly gales.

A stray German bomb fell here in 1941 after a raid on Teesside, and completely destroyed the White Bear Inn.

It was badly damaged by bombing in the Second World War.