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Eat your heart out...37 years later? One spoonful at a time. Perhaps, a little more than an interlude?
'Hull was the most severely damaged British city or town during the Second World War, with 95 percent of houses damaged.' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_Blitz
I remember my Grandfather had a pictorial book of the devastation caused during the war, I think it was issued by HDM. It had a green cover, but whatever happened to it after my grandparent passed away, I don't know, which was a pity as it certainly told a story of how badly damaged the City. I also remember him telling me that they went up to Willerby, near where the crematorium is now and there were a lot of people watching the Blitz from that vantage point which overlooked the City.
I know Hull was very heavily bomber during the war and can believe it was one of the most heavily damaged. However, I thought surely it wasn't 95% of all houses damaged?!?! I just found this which says the number of houses destroyed or damaged was 86,715 and also says 95%. So out of about 91,000 houses only 6,000 were left undamaged. 27 churches, 14 schools or hospitals, 42 pubs and 8 cinemas were ruined
Not only was Hull a key port targeted by the Germans but many of their bombers returning from raids on the north east of England would drop unused bombs on the city - or anywhere near the coast - to lighten the return journey home.
Not only the NE, in fact many Luftwaffe raids in the NW (Belfast, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester) caused dumping of unused bombs over Hull before the bombers hit the North Sea on their return journeys.
They used the Humber as a navigation aid on their way home which is why the unused bombs ended up in Hull and presumably the south bank ports too.