This is good stuff. I've recently discovered my home street in Westcliff was damaged during a Zep raid in 1915. There is a local expert who can probably fill me in and he is a member of my local WFA. I am a member, too, but something makes me keep it at arms length a little. I have never been one for clubs etc. My first proper home in norf London, in Stoke Newington, was built in 1767 and had been a meeting place for the prominent anti-slavers. Needless to say the Luftwaffe found it and blew the top floor and the facade off. The area had a large-ish Jewish community at the time and presumably they were being fairly indiscriminate. One night my mother and her sister left a shelter in Stoke Newington High St because it was too crowded. A bomb cut the gas and water main, flooding it, causing the highest single loss of life after the Bethnal Green disaster of 1943. The same night my mother saw a policeman get decapitated as she made her way to another shelter. My grandfather, who was killed at sea in 1941, was nearly killed on home leave by a bomb which landed in Abney park cemetery in Stoke Newington. A huge chunk of grave stone crashed through the balcony window where he had just been standing watching the raid. It was kept for years and had part of had an inscription on it. My gran used it as a door stop.
MB