Mabel Stott News Today

Next week marks the anniversary of a tragic night in York’s history – the Baedeker air raids that killed 79 people. A new interactive map is being launched to chart the destruction. Phil Penfold reports.

HAVE you got an old air raid shelter hidden away somewhere in your garden? A rusty old Anderson shelter made of corrugated iron - or an overgrown brick shelter that you now use as a garden shed. There are more of them about than you might think. And the people of York have been busy taking selfies of them for a project to record the long-lasting impact of the wartime air-raids on York. The Raids Over York project started on 11 August 2020 - the 80th anniversary of the first raid on the ci...