Thank you Purple Owl. Glad to see this reminder.
I am still searching for any more details of the destruction of my great grandparents' pub, the Angel and Trumpet, 2 High Street, Stepney, and especially of any photographs or outline drawings of the pub before it was destroyed.
Local newspapers did not report the specific details of incidents as they may have provided information to the enemy and perhaps demoralize the local population further. The most likely report of the Angel and Trumpet’s destruction was in the East London Advertiser on Saturday 5 October 1940, below a heading of Public House Ablaze: Already Suffered Previously Now Gutted By Fire. The report describes “…an incendiary bomb, however started a fire in a well-known public house, beginning a fierce blaze, which gutted the building. The public house had suffered minor damage previously, bombs have fallen on two occasions, but had still continued trading, in a “bombed but not beaten” spirit. The fire this week, however, has affected every storey, and one can look through the blackened rafters of the floor into the cellar below. According to the book Bomb Damage Maps 1939-1945, bombs had previously fallen nearby on 13 May, 25 August and 8 September 1940.
Kevin, now in Chester
