On 24 August, German night bombers aiming for the airfields accidentally destroyed several London homes, killing civilians. Churchill retaliated immediately by bombing Berlin the following night. Starting on 7 September 1940, London was bombed by the for 57 consecutive nights, and other British cities were targeted. But a real turning point in Britain’s fortunes in the war occurred on 15 September. In an attempt to shatter British morale, now that an invasion began to seem increasingly unrealistic, Hitler sent two enormous waves of German bombers. But their attacks were scattered by the RAF; the German defeat caused Hitler to order, two days later, the postponement of preparations for the invasion. In the face of mounting losses of men and aircraft, the switched from daylight to night-time bombing and although fighting continued in the air for several more weeks, and British cities continued to be bombed, German tactics to achieve air superiority ahead of an invasion had failed.
The Genesis Cinema on Mile End Road, Stepney, London, E1. The Eagle public house and music hall was built here in 1848, replaced by Lusby’s Music Hall, then in 1884 […...
copyright: By Wilton’s Music Hall (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons...
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The entrance to Aldwych Station on the Strand in Central London. It was open from 1907 until 1994. copyright: Duncan Harris, Wikimedia Commons...
The original diagrammatic tube map by Harry Beck has also become an iconic artwork in itself. It later inspired ‘The Great Bear’by Simon Patterson, in which stations were repla...
