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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.

In modern times, long stretches of wall still remain, but before the heavy bombing of the Second World War there would undoubtedly have been more.

This lovely Tudor building survived unchanged for 300 years before being badly damaged in the bombing of 1943.

The names of the 27 people who were killed in the 1941 bombing raid are about to be added to the memorial.

In August 1944 a German flying bomb fell in the churchyard and did so much damage that the church was not fully restored until 1957.

The devastating bombing raid of 1941 necessitated a new time of reconstruction guided to completion by George Pace in 1964.

Union Street was more fortunate than many of its neighbours and escaped the worst of the bombing. This view shows the tram tracks that spread along the city's main thoroughfares.

In the background is Chelsea Old Church, which suffered extensive bomb damage in the War.

In the background is Chelsea Old Church, which suffered extensive bomb damage in the War.

It was on Goodworth Clatford that a flying bomb landed, destroying the old Royal Oak, the school, the smithy and a row of cottages.

In the 1950s part of the bombed land around the cathedral was designated for open space to enhance the view of Christopher Wren's masterpiece.

Bank Street underwent an unexpected transformation in February 1941, when this corner was destroyed by a bomb.

Most of them were severely damaged by bombing in the war.

to William Thorngate, a philanthropic grocer and tea merchant who donated money for local housing, the Thorngate Hall was regularly used for public meetings until it was gutted by an incen- diary bomb

What Hitler's bombs missed, the councils of England destroyed. What is built there today only emphasises the point.

The village lost its medieval church to bombs in World War II and has expanded much since the War, partly due to Lincoln's proximity and partly to the RAF.

The grand classical building on the left, built in 1895 for the Lewes Old Bank, was bombed in 1943: it is now Barclays Bank.

memorial to William Thorngate, a philanthropic grocer and tea merchant who donated money for local housing, the Thorngate Hall was regularly used for public meetings until it was gutted by an incendiary bomb

It commemorates the eleven Royal Marine bandsmen killed by an IRA bomb at the Royal Marine School of Music, Deal, in September 1989.

It was damaged in a German bombing raid in May 1942 and subsequently renovated.

In its original four-storey form Parade House was rather overpowering, but it lost two storeys to a German bomb in 1943.

A decade earlier the Isle of Wight had known the hostile use of air-power, being one of the first areas to be bombed during the Battle of Britain.

Behind on the skyline is the spire of the just-completed St Mary`s church in Shortlands, which was lost when it was hit by a German bomb in the Second World War.