About The Blitz
The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against Britain in 1940 and 1941, during the Second World War. The term was first used by the British press and is the German word for 'lightning'.
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... When he was five his father moved to London to work on the reconstruction of the capital after The Blitz and Gambon attended St Aloysius College in Highgate before the family moved again, this time to Kent...
Dame Mary Quant: Pioneer of 60s high street fashion
... She had to leave London because of The Blitz and ended up attending no fewer than 13 schools...
'Leaning tower of Rotherhithe' sold for £1. 5m
... To the west of the house, the buildings were destroyed during The Blitz in World War Two...
Ukraine war: Nato pledges to provide more weapons and fix power grid
... In a separate development on Tuesday, Ukraine s First Lady Olena Zelenska told lawmakers in the UK Parliament in London that Ukrainians were going through a terror similar to that experienced by the UK in World War Two, when Nazi Germany bombed cities in The Blitz...
Obituary: Angela Lansbury
... With the onset of The Blitz her mother decided to move the family to New York, where Lansbury won a scholarship to the Feagin School of Dramatic Art...
Queen Elizabeth II: How wartime helped define her life of service
... In October 1940, as Britain was suffering the worst of The Blitz, Elizabeth made her first broadcast...
The monarchy's delicate Scottish balancing act
... In many ways Elizabeth embodied stability and national unity, both in her wartime service and survival of The Blitz, and in her link to a shared - and controversial - imperial enterprise which many Scots enthusiastically joined or supported...
London left with three fire engines on hottest day - fire chief
... With 1,146 incidents on Tuesday, London Fire Brigade (LFB) commissioner Andrew Roe, said crews were stretched to the greatest extent since The Blitz...
'Leaning tower of Rotherhithe' sold for £1. 5m
A House on the Thames riverbank in East London , which has long been the subject of local intrigue, has sold for £1. 5m.
The property, said to be known as the " leaning tower of Rotherhithe" is four storeys high and 3. 5m wide. It was purchased by a buyer from the area.
Savills lot negotiator Steven Morish said: " Auction works really well for quirky lots like this.
" The value in this is an art rather than a science; the buyers will set the value. "
The House , which was once part of a row of buildings, has a run-down exterior but still attracted " a really good level of interest" from across the globe.
The Building , now 1 Fulford Street, was formerly 41 Rotherhithe Street. Now the only house on The Street , it was once surrounded by shipping businesses.
To The West of The House , The Buildings were destroyed during The Blitz in World War Two.
In the 1960s, London County Council bought The Remaining houses on The Row but The Owners of 41 Rotherhithe Street, barge constructors Braithwaite & Dean, refused to sell.
The Company employed lightermen - Workers who used flat-bottomed barges to move goods between ships and quays - and they would pull up to collect their wages from 41 Rotherhithe Street.
Savills said it believed the buyer intended To Live in The House . The former owners sold up as they were said to no longer require a London bolthole.
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