Said ONE london trader. I already said it happened, what more do you want?

Did you look up to see if where you live got pummelled.

One of the more interesting stories I was told by a Lewisham resident many years ago was that Lord Haw Haw announced on the radio that they knew a downed Messerschmitt was being displayed in Chieseman's window. That night Lewisham and Chiesman's were hit.

Are you signed up to Guardian archives? I'd love to know how t was reported.

I know that you said that it happened: I did not dispute that.

I was attempting to comment on the issue of frequency, after you said that looting etc was not "an everyday event".

[url=http://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/3149/nation-looters-it-even-happened-blitzAnother interesting piece here.[/url



I haven't – yet – but then I know that this area took very heavy damage: it's the westernmost edge of the East End. The park directly behind us was only subsequently made a park because it was smashed up badly – had formerly been a combination of industrial and residential.

We're also only a short walk from Shoreditch Park, which had been totally residential. [iTime Team[/i did a dig there a few years ago to see whether they could actual evidence of how bombs hit. They did: they also found a number of weapons, including (but not limited to) a number of knuckle dusters. IIRC, the programme also mentioned the looting – the City, for instance, is just a short walk away.



I'm not – didn't know they had any online, frankly.

Admittedly I have been ignored by many females throughout the World,....I even received a knock back in Hull, which by any standards is a low point! However, as we travel hopefully down life's highways, you never know what's waiting around the next bend in the road.

Do you have a sister by any chance Kosh......?

Quote ="Mintball"I know that you said that it happened: I did not dispute that. I was attempting to comment on the issue of frequency, after you said that looting etc was not "an everyday event". [url=http://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/3149/nation-looters-it-even-happened-blitzAnother interesting piece here.[/url'" Yep. You only have to talk to Londoners who were around at the time. People did stick together in the blitz, but then, in a time of rationing and poverty, nicking what you could get would make ends meet. There were loads of stories censored for years not to alarm the public, like the tube station in the East End where people were crushed to death. I don't have access to the Guardian archive but here's them having a go at the Daily Worker newspaper. www.theguardian.com/politics/194 ... ndworldwar It would be fascinating to see how the papers reported things in the days of war time censorship as opposed to now. Do you remember the story of the chap who set the Telegraph Crosswords during the War. By pure co-incidence, every now and then the answer to clues were words like Juno, Sword and Omaha.

Quote ="Mintball"I know that you said that it happened: I did not dispute that. I was attempting to comment on the issue of frequency, after you said that looting etc was not "an everyday event". [url=http://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/3149/nation-looters-it-even-happened-blitzAnother interesting piece here.[/url'" Yep. You only have to talk to Londoners who were around at the time. People did stick together in the blitz, but then, in a time of rationing and poverty, nicking what you could get would make ends meet. There were loads of stories censored for years not to alarm the public, like the tube station in the East End where people were crushed to death. I don't have access to the Guardian archive but here's them having a go at the Daily Worker newspaper. www.theguardian.com/politics/194 ... ndworldwar It would be fascinating to see how the papers reported things in the days of war time censorship as opposed to now. Do you remember the story of the chap who set the Telegraph Crosswords during the War. By pure co-incidence, every now and then the answer to clues were words like Juno, Sword and Omaha.

I used to live near Shoreditch Park, Pitfield St in Hoxton, I was living (illegally) in a halls of residence, a whole year unnoticed, Plenty of blitz spirit going on then