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194225–27 April 1942 · Bath, Somerset

Bath Blitz

The columned entrance of Bath's Assembly Rooms, burnt out in the 1942 raids and later restored
Photo: Beata Cosgrove Photography. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

German bombers attacked Bath on two nights in reprisal for RAF raids on historic German towns, one of the so-called Baedeker raids aimed at Britain's heritage cities. 417 people were killed and more than 19,000 buildings damaged. The Assembly Rooms were burnt out and two churches lost, and the garden of Queen Square was later given to the city as a memorial.

Sites

  1. Site 1: Assembly RoomsGeorgian ballrooms gutted by fire in 1942 and restored after the war.Map ↗
  2. Site 2: Queen SquareGarden given to the people of Bath in 1948 in memory of the raids' victims.Map ↗

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