The London County Council Bomb Damage Maps 1939-1945

The aerial bombardment of London during Second World War could well be considered the most significant event in the city’s modern history. Between 1939 and 1945, London and its boroughs experienced destruction on an enormous scale with air raids and rocket attacks reducing entire buildings and streets to rubble and bringing death and destruction.

The architects’ department of the London County Council (LCC) recorded the damage to buildings caused by air raids and V weapons in a series of maps, and it is these maps which appear in The London County Council Bomb Damage Maps 1939-1945. The full set...