Plans to mark 85th anniversary of Sheffield Blitz that devastated city 'gathering pace'
Plans to mark the 85th anniversary of the devastating Luftwaffe attacks on Sheffield are fast gathering pace.
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Sheffield Blitz firefighter remembered on raid anniversary
BBC News Published image copyrightFamily photo image captionFrederick Parkes Spencer was on duty at the service headquarters at Division Street when the raid started A firefighter killed in the 1940 Sheffield Blitz is among the victims being remembered 80 years after air raids wreaked devastation on the city. Hundreds of people died during German bombing raids over two nights starting on 12 December 1940. Frederick Parkes Spencer was the only full-time police fireman, as they were then known, to be killed. He died, along with auxiliary fireman Stanley Slack, tackling the aftermath of the bomb...
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Incredible lucky escape revealed of worker as bombs rained down on Sheffield's Marples pub during Blitz 80 years ago
Submitting... Rescue work at Marples Hotel after the Blitz "If she had stayed at work for her normal hours, she would have taken refuge in the shelter at Marples Hotel, which during the Sheffield Blitz took a direct hit and was completely demolished. The Marples took a direct hit at 11.44pm. The bomb probably plunged through the upper floors of the building, only detonating on floor-level impact right above the cellars. Mable, who died four years ago recalled standing in his back garden and watching the bombs fall over the city, was unable to get home and had to stay at her brothers for two d...
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