![]() ![]() Northern Ireland seems to have been outside the regional structure, but The National Archives does hold a small number of records relating to bomb damage in Northern Ireland. If you visit The National Archives you can see a list of the groups, and the boroughs that were in them, at the start of the paper catalogue list for record series HO 198. ![]() London (region 5) was sub-divided into groups and further sub-divided by borough. The Ministry of Home Security divided the UK into 12 civil defence regions and information about bomb damage was coordinated through these regions. Its purpose was to provide the government with a complete picture of air raid patterns, types of weapon used and the damage caused – in particular to strategic services and installations such as railways, shipyards, factories and public utilities. Initially, only information relating to London, Birmingham and Liverpool was collated but by September 1941 the Bomb Census had been extended to cover the rest of the UK. In September 1940 the government started to collect and collate information relating to damage sustained during bombing raids. See also our blog about Second World War V-1 flying bombs or Doodlebugs. Though the website does contain some inaccuracies, it provides online access to the map data which is otherwise only available in our reading rooms at our site in Kew, London. You might also find it useful to look at the Bomb Sight project, a website created to provide online access to data from the Bomb Census maps. The information relates mostly to damage to domestic, industrial and commercial properties in London but also covers the rest of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. This research guide will help you to find air raid reports, Bomb Census maps and sometimes photographs of bomb damage sustained during air raids in the Second World War. Records in other archives and online sources Other records of air raid attacks and damage National Fire Service and Air Raid Precautions How to search for Bomb Census records and air raid damage files How was the Bomb Census information gathered? ![]()
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