This story was submitted to the People’s War website by B. Jelf of Congleton Museum and K. Helsby of Congleton Library on behalf of Eileen Jones, and has been added to the site with her permission.

Rare wartime footage shows the aftermath of the 1940 Christmas Blitz in Manchester which claimed hundreds of lives. The film - titled Manchester Took It, Too - was put together by the Co-operative ...

On December 23rd and 24th 1940 Manchester suffered its worst blitz, the city centre was almost blasted out of existence. 30.000 incendiary bombs dropped on the city in two nights, causing the largest ...

They were the bloodiest 48 hours in the history of Manchester and are now slipping away from living memory. Just before Christmas in 1940, more than 750 civilians - many of them families with children ...