Ref Bethnal green. An Ariel mine hit a block of pre war flats in the east end. Coronation buildings in Stoke newington, The occupants were sheltering in the basement, mostly women and kids. The building collapsed, and when the rescue squads finally got through the rubble, all were dead, most drowned from the burst mains, which was immediately above them, and the firemen,s hoses., others were gassed by the fractured mains. over 300 people died. In south London people sheltering on the platforms of an underground station in south London, drowned, when a stick of bombs breached a local reservoir, flooding the station. Hundreds drowned. Churchill suppressed the news from the general public.
As told to me by my mother, who as a young girl, lived through the worst of the blitz, and was bombed out .......twice.