Raymond Cosson to his daughter Nellie and family "The sky was overhung with a huge pall of smoke hiding the sun, and it was raining cinders and burnt material." Sent from: London Date of letter: 17 May 1941
Joan Parsons to Uncle Frank about the blitz in Coventry "Coventry is not the old Coventry any more. The centre of the town is wiped out and every street has, it seems, received heavy damage." Sent from: Kenilworth Road, Coventry Date of letter: 4 December 1940
Henry Avery to his daughter Edith "Searchlights sweep about overhead and there is some gunfire. The streets are deserted and as we get down eastwards and cross Whitechapel Road into Sidney St we can see several big fires going." Sent from: East London Date of letter: 8 September 1940
George Kendall OBE to his friend George Tomlinson "What a fearful blitz a week last Saturday and the result was that all trains, buses, underground, railways etc. had been stopped from our end - the City was absolutely closed to traffic and East Ham is a long way" Sent from: East Ham, London Date of letter: 19 May 1941
Winifred Coles to Glencoe Alfred Lambell about the blitz in Exeter "My word we did have a time of it and poor old Exeter is in a sorry state." Sent from: Exeter Date of letter: 6 May 1942
Olly to Harry Arthur (Bert) Kirby "We heard the incendiaries coming down, one outside the garage again, and someone came in in hysterics saying Mac's place was on fire" Sent from: Stepney, London E1 Date of letter: 15 January 1941
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