More than 2,200 Brummies were killed during nightly air raids by the German Luftwaffe between August 1940 and April 1943 as the bombers targeted the c


More than 2,200 Brummies were killed during nightly air raids by the German Luftwaffe between August 1940 and April 1943 as the bombers targeted the city's munitions plants and Spitfire plane factory. More than 60 years after the nightmare ended, their lives were honoured by members of Birmingham Air Raid Remembrance Association, who unveiled a commemorative monument in Edgbaston Street, near St Martin's Cathedral in 2005.


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Photo credit: © keith harris / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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Keywords: artwork, birmingham, cathedral, civilian, edgbaston, martin’, memorial, st, street, war