Heinkel He111 bomber over London ?September, 1940.  The characteristic "snake" of the River Thames can be seen below.  Best regards, JR.

Not the "Eastenders" credits ...

The 19th century neo-Gothic Palace of Westminster, on the banks of the Thames, backlit by bomb blasts during the Blitz.  The earlier Palace of Westminster which this replaced had been burned down during the 19th century due to the incautious action of some Irish labourers involved in its renovation, who thought it a good idea to use some of the wooden tally sticks in its basement to light a fire.  Unfortunately, there were a Hell of a lot of tally sticks in the basement, medieval and tinder-dry.  The fire spread to the general body of tally sticks, with inevitable results ... JR.

Mother of Parliaments.

A view over Chancery Lane, Holborn, London, under aerial bombardment during the Blitz.  To the right of the photo are the historic precincts of the Temple, home of the Inns of Court and the English Bar (community of Court Advocates).  The impressive Victorian neo-Tudor Gothic building on the left is the old Public Records Office.  I must assume that this building avoided serious damage.  Even if there had been some dispersal of its collection, the building would have been packed with tinder-dry parchment documents and tally-sticks, the records of the Government of England going back to the late-12th century.  A half-well placed incendiary would have caused a conflagration that would not bear thinking about, destroying a huge amount of primary source materials for English history.  I should know - I spent a considerable time researching in this building in the late-1970s and early- 1980s.  Strange, and unsettling, to see it in this photo.  

I am not sure to what use the old PRO is put these days.  As far as I know, all records are now available in the new Records Office at Kew.  Knowing the civil service, however, it is far from impossible that some are still stored here ... Ah, happy days (mine, I mean), JR.