THE OLD BAILEY A VICTIM OF GERMAN BOMBS
10th May 1941 - a 550 bomber raid dropped more than 700 tons of bombs and thousands of incendiaries. This was probably the worst raid of the Blitz in regard to the number of death cause in one bombing raid with nearly 1500 people killed and around 1800 seriously injured. The Chamber of the House of Commons (Parliament) was destroyed. The House of Lords, Westminster Abbey, Westminster Hall, St James's Palace and Lambeth Palace were amongst the many buildings damaged. Almost all the major mainline railway stations were also damaged as were 14 hospitals, the British Museum and the Old Bailey. 
The OLD BAILEY ,1906.
This was the last of the major raids on London up to May of 1941. There were of course the occasional attacks over the next three years but nothing on the scale Londoners had been used to in the previous 15 months.
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