Blitz Experience

During WW2 Coventry’s industries turned to the production of materials for the war effort. This made the city a target for enemy bombing, and on the night of November 14th 1940 the city was hit by an all night air raid that devastated the city centre and killed over 500 people.

In this exhibition we recreated what it might have been like to be out on the street when the bombs were dropping. You will also see bomb disposal experts dealing with a massive bomb that failed to go off, and see workers in their factory air raid shelter.

In the final scene you pass through a bomb-damaged Coventry street with rescuers digging through the rubble for survivors. You will also see inside an Anderson shelter and get some idea what it was like for people who spent nights huddled together while the bombs dropped all around them.

At the end of the Landmarques gallery you will see the Museum’s Royal cars once owned by Queen Mary and George VI, and the  Humber staff car used by Field Marshall Montgomery during WW2.

Images by Haydn Bailey Photography

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