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Blitz and Counter- Blitz

... Blitz and Counter- Blitz 6/ Our Flying Correspondent IT was remarkable that one of the most significant official statements about the air war in recent days was passed over with very little notice in the daily newspapers. Yet, in my opinion, it reveals ...

BLITZ!

... BLITZ! at the Adelphi Theatre As the first-night audience came out into the Strand last week after seeing Lionel Bart's new musical there could be heard the first scattered remarks of what would surely be floods of personal reminiscences of the Blitz ...

Published: Saturday 19 May 1962
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 404 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

Blitz Toys

... I Blitz Toys ONE of the minor hardships of war, so difficult to explain to children, is the shortage of toys. Materials are short and so is labour, and as a result toys are hard to get and terribly expensive. But the Education Department of the London ...

COVENTRY COMMEMORATES THE BLITZ

... °N THE SIXTH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS DESTRUCTION BY ENEMY ACTION Citizens of the blitzed city standing beneath umbrellas as they sang amid a downpour of rain at the anniversary service in the precincts of Coventry Cathedral held exactly six years after the ...

Published: Saturday 23 November 1946
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 189 | Page: 5 | Tags: Photographs 

THE P.M. IN BLITZED BERLIN

... THE P.M. IN BLITZED BERLIN. IT was a great and historic day when MR. WIN STON CHURCHILL stood in the shattered centre of the vanquished enemy capi tal, and saw the damage wrought by Allied bombs and Russian guns. Amaze ment sat on the faces of the Berliners ...

Published: Wednesday 25 July 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 302 | Page: 12 | Tags: Photographs 

MUSIC IN THE BLITZ WITH RITA HAYWORTH

... NIGHT, Columbians new musical story of showfolk in the London blitz. RITA HAYWORTH as Rosalind Bruce% American show girl heroine, who rises to fame in a London music- hall during the blitz winter of 1940-41. Rosalind Bruce, show-girl heroine of To-night ...

Published: Wednesday 07 March 1945
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 238 | Page: 20 | Tags: Photographs 

REBUILDING LONDON'S BLITZED DOCKLAND

... was damaged, and the pre-war population of 270,000 was widely dispersed. To-day a new West Ham is rising on the site of the blitzed borough, and, appropriately enough, some of the finest rebuilding work is being done in the Tidal Basin area which is now ...

Published: Saturday 13 August 1949
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 689 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

RE-BUILDING BLITZED PLYMOUTH

... RE-BUILDING BLITZED PLYMOUTH A CITY, WITH 114 ACRES OBLITERATED BY BOMBS, WHICH IS BEING RECON STRUCTED ON NOBLE LINES LONDONERS still look back across the centuries with a feeling of regret at the great opportunities lost in 1666 when their forebears ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1952
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1099 | Page: 27 | Tags: Photographs 

WHAT MAKES BLITZ EXPLODE?

... WHAT MAKES BLITZ EXPLODE P Behind the smoke, the flames, the crashing buildings and the apparent chaos is the cool and calculating brain of Sean Kenny-the man whose many theatrical triumphs in a comparatively brief span of stage designing dictated his ...

Published: Wednesday 27 June 1962
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 252 | Page: 24 | Tags: Photographs 

JOURNEY FOR MARGARET: BLITZ-TIME STORY

... JOURNEY FOR MARGARET: BLITZ-TIME STORY. John Davis (ROBERT YOUNG) with Peter (WILLIAM SEVERN), sole survivor from a bombed house. John and Nora Davis (LARAINE DAY) with Peter and Margaret (MARGARET O'BRIEN) in the fury of a blitz on London. Strauss (FAY ...

Published: Wednesday 10 March 1943
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 241 | Page: 23 | Tags: Photographs 

BLITZ NIGHT ENTERTAINMENT: THE MORNING STAR

... BLITZ NIGHT ENTERTAINMENT: THE MORNING STAR. I 'm the charwoman. Really My mother is a charwoman. Mrs. Lane (GLADYS HENSON) and Wanda Baring (AMBROSINE PHILLPOTTS). I must get away. Wanda breaks the silence necessary for the experiment. Alison (ANGELA ...

Published: Wednesday 31 December 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 244 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs