Lessons from history: the Blitz, the building boom and the people left behind

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It was 75 years ago that the German aerial bombing campaign now known as the Blitz wrought destruction on British cities. Right across the country, from London, to Glasgow, to Bristol, tens of thousands of tonnes of explosives were dropped by the German Luftwaffe. Coventry – a city in the country’s Midlands – suffered terrible devastation: some 1,236 people were killed during 41 raids. But even before the bombing stopped, city officials took steps to implement an ambitious plan initially conceived to transform medieval Coventry by Donald Gibson in the late 1930s.