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Nottingham Blitz

Index Nottingham Blitz

The Nottingham Blitz was an attack by the German Luftwaffe on Nottingham during the night of 8–9 May 1941. [1]

17 relations: Air Raid Precautions in the United Kingdom, Athelstan Popkess, Co-op Food, Cropwell Butler, Derby, High Pavement, Home Guard (United Kingdom), John Player & Sons, Luftwaffe, Neville Talbot, Nottingham, Rolls-Royce Holdings, Shakespeare Street Wesleyan Reform Chapel, St Christopher's Church, Sneinton, St Mary's Church, Nottingham, St. John the Baptist's Church, Leenside, Nottingham, Starfish site.

Air Raid Precautions in the United Kingdom

Air Raid Precautions (ARP) was an organisation in the United Kingdom set up in 1937 dedicated to the protection of civilians from the danger of air raids.

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Athelstan Popkess

Athelstan Horn Popkess CBE (1895–1967) was Chief Constable of Nottingham City Police from 1930 to 1959.

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Co-op Food

Co-op Food, previously trading as The Co-operative Food, is a brand devised for the food retail business of the consumer co-operative movement in the United Kingdom.

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Cropwell Butler

Cropwell Butler is a village and civil parish in the borough of Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom, one mile to the east of the A46 in the NG12 postcode.

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Derby

Derby is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England.

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High Pavement

High Pavement is a street in Nottingham, England.

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Home Guard (United Kingdom)

The Home Guard (initially Local Defence Volunteers or LDV) was a defence organisation of the British Army during the Second World War.

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John Player & Sons

John Player & Sons, most often known simply as Player's, was a tobacco and cigarette manufacturer based in Nottingham, England.

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Luftwaffe

The Luftwaffe was the aerial warfare branch of the combined German Wehrmacht military forces during World War II.

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Neville Talbot

Neville Stuart Talbot (1879–1943) was Bishop of Pretoria in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa and later a robust vicar of St. Mary's Church, Nottingham and assistant Bishop of Southwell who turned down the chance to be Bishop of Croydon.

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Nottingham

Nottingham is a city and unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, England, north of London, in the East Midlands.

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Rolls-Royce Holdings

Rolls-Royce Holdings plc is a British multinational public limited company incorporated in February 2011 that owns Rolls-Royce, a business established in 1904 which today designs, manufactures and distributes power systems for aviation and other industries.

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Shakespeare Street Wesleyan Reform Chapel

Shakespeare Street Wesleyan Reform Chapel is a former Wesleyan Church on Shakespeare Street in Nottingham.

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St Christopher's Church, Sneinton

St.

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St Mary's Church, Nottingham

The Church of St Mary the Virgin is the oldest religious foundationDomesday Book: A Complete Translation (Penguin Classics) in the City of Nottingham, England, the largest church after the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Nottingham and the largest mediaeval building in the city.

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St. John the Baptist's Church, Leenside, Nottingham

The church of St.

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Starfish site

Starfish sites were large-scale night-time decoys created during the Blitz to simulate burning British cities.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nottingham_Blitz

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