Local Response: Conclusions

“Lord, put beneath Thy special care one-eighty-nine Cadogan Square.” Written during the blitz these words from In Westminster Abbey by John Betjeman serve as a reminder that what really mattered most was where the bombs happened to fall, as Allport aptly demonstrates:For whilst there exists a commonplace understanding that parts of the capital were bombed more than others, there was in fact a matching inequality in blitz experience.