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St. Giles’ Cripplegate Church, which was located in this area, was not rebuilt until 1966, more than two decades after the war ended. Atlas Obscura and our trusted partners use technology such as cookies on our website to personalise ads, support social media features, and analyse our traffic.

This was the site of the Brook Hotel pub, which was hit by a V2 rocket in November 1944. In his memoir The Likes Of Us, Michael Collins writes how in the 1960s he explored Elephant’s remaining bombsites, “on which relics of former homes hovered, exposed broken fireplaces and floral or barley corn wallpaper that had witness births, deaths, Christmases, parties, tears, arguments, laughter and sex.” Sayer Street survived this half-life into the 1960s, when it was chewed up by the Heygate Estate.

Several years ago, we featured some striking maps from a small exhibition at the London Metropolitan Archive. A map showing the bomb damage in Deptford. The NPC car park empire began with the purchase of a £200 bomb site on Red Lion Square. Like Atlas Obscura and get our latest and greatest stories in your Facebook feed.

Those records helped create the detailed maps that are the focus of the new book, The London County Council’s Bomb Damage Maps, 1939-1945. This new estate is typical of the buildings that were thrown up after the war to solve the problem of slum housing.

Two walls to the east were removed in 1974 in a road-widening scheme, while the tower – with a steeple that Ian Nairn considered one of Wren’s finest – was transformed into a 12-storey private home in 2006. When travel writer HV Morton surveyed London in 1951’s In Search of London, it was still scarred by war. It’s always a puzzle why it didn’t happen, maybe they just wanted to forget.”. “I can still see that 89 bus exploding. Officers had to complete an “Incident Report and Record of War Damage,” which were used by the London City Council’s Architect’s Department. By 1910, it was being used as a warehouse when boxer Dick Burge decided to turn it into a boxing venue.

An iconic and multi-layered source for London’s experience of war and its aftermath, it conveys complex survey data in the tradition of Leake’s Great Fire map, Milne’s land use map, Mylne’s geological maps and Booth’s poverty maps. These church ruins, we suggest, would do this with realism and gravity”. What happened to the photos - were you forced to take them down? “The heart of it was insurance and compensation,” says Laurence Ward, the book’s editor and senior archivist at the London Metropolitan Archive. May 5, 2016, 3:50 PM EDT The Bomb Damage Maps … Combining archives, science and modern technology to explore London’s WWII legacy - with emphasis on bomb damage, Middlesex County Council Bomb Damage Map for Neasden, London On The Move – FREE virtual tours – Saturday 10th October.

The cover of The London County Council Bomb Damage Maps 1939-1945. To learn more or withdraw consent, please visit our cookie policy.

(The key to the maps featured here is below.). “Now you’d never know it existed.”.

I said nobody could get in there yet but it looked as if the Demolition people might, quite soon. But with his new building, Alsop paid reference to both of Palestra’s forefathers: like Orbit House, it is raised above the road on a pedestal, while its name comes from the Greek word for a wrestling ring. Bomb Damage Maps 1939-1945. One on the IWM website shows a family sitting at a dinner table outside the Blitzed shell of Sayer Street School eating egg and bacon supplied by American aid. The Bomb Damage Maps of 1940s London. Although salvageable and unquestionably important, it was demolished in 1960 and replaced by Ravenscourt Park and a modern tower block, named Old Market Square in a half-hearted nod to what was lost. The Bomb Damage Maps were annotated extensively with the use of colour keys by the Architects Department of the London County Council (LCC) to indicate, building by building, bomb damage in London during the Second World War.

Used frequently by architects, surveyors, town planners and local and family historians seeking information on the precise degree of damage suffered by properties across the 117 square miles of the London Region 1940-1945, the maps are a symbol of Londoners’ resilience in adversity and highlight the enormous effort and forethought of the LCC to serve London and Londoners in their ‘hour of need’. Damage from one of these strikes can still be seen a few yards away under a railway bridge.