Portsmouth - A Shattered City

Portsmouth took a terrible battering during the Second World War, the dockyard and the mighty battleships making it a prime target for Luftwaffe pilots. During those harrowing war years thousands of homes and public buildings were lost, especially on the terrible night of 10 January 1941, when 25,000 incendiaries and numerous high-explosive bombs rained down on the city, which at one time had 28 major fires burning and no effective water-supply to tackle them.

In this unique collection of rare images local journalist and author Anthony Triggs shows the way the city changed as the demolition crews went to work, and how the gaping wounds of the city were cleaned and cleared to make way for a new Portsmouth
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