At 4:43pm 

People in the south-east of England were enjoying the Saturday afternoon, when suddenly the drone of aircraft engines made people head indoors as wave after wave of bombers flew towards London.

At 6:30pm 

Hundreds of incendiaries (small candle-like bombs) fall on the docks. The fires are a beacon for a second wave of aircraft with high explosive bombs.

At 8:30pm

The heavy bombers return. Soon an inferno stretches from London Bridge to Woolwich, a distance of around seven miles.

Water and gas pipes throughout the East End were fractured, as were electricity and telephone cables. 

More than 450 people were killed. The bombers would return to attack the capital for 57 consecutive nights until 7 November, when bad weather made it impossible for the Luftwaffe to fly. The primary target at this stage was not the civilian population but, given that employees lived near the docks and factories, the ‘collateral damage’ in terms of lives and homes was appalling.

Details taken from BBC https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/articles/z7dyxyc [accessed 11.01.2025]. 

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