John Nichol

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Dan Snow's History Hit · The Blitz Beyond London · 27 Jul 2026 podcast

And it is now the RAF church.

And if you go there, if you know where to look,

you can see the shrapnel marks going up the side of the wall where bombs exploded.

And they're still there.

And anything from kind of golf ball size to football size chunks out of the wall that have never been repaired, you can still see that if you know where to look.

So, you know, I did that in Newcastle where I live and in North Shields.

when I was going around looking at the bomb plot map in different areas, you can see what were either Edwardian, Victorian housing.

And then every now and then, there's some what are now relatively new houses.

And they're just stuck in the middle.

You'd never say, oh, look at those two completely different houses on that row.

But my daughter can see why that is.

I can find that photograph of the before.

And then I can see the building that's collapsed and I can see people getting their possessions out.

And now I can look now and I can see the 1950s, 1960s, quite kind of industrial building that's been put in the place.

So you really can, if you're interested, you can really track where your own area was affected by the German bombing during the war.

Hull is what is called the Forgotten City, Dan, because very few people do.

It's interesting that you talk about that.

So for some reason, it was never named during the war on any of the bombing.

And lots of places weren't, but it was just called, I think the government referred to it as an unnamed northeast coast town.

Right.

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