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Travel back in time when I visit the house my mother was living in during the Wartime Blitz of Plymouth 1940. Mutley Road Mannamead is close to the centre of the city just off Mutley Plain.
My grandfather was serving in the Royal Navy and was working at Keyham Naval College in Devonport.
The first bombs fell on Plymouth on the 6th July 1940, with the city's naval base and docks making it a major target.
However, the heaviest instances of bombing on the area took place on 20th and 21st March, and then 21st, 22nd, 23,rd 28th and 29th April 1941, with 900 people killed and 40,000 made homeless over seven nights.
London aside, Plymouth was one of the most heavily bombed cities in the country.
More than 200,000 incendiary bombs were dropped on the city, along with more than 6,600 high explosive bombs.
According to Plymouth City Council figures, 3,754 homes were destroyed and 1,174 civilians were killed between the first bombs on the 6 thJuly 1940 and 30th April 1944.
Plymouth was re-built in the 1950s and 1960s. This followed a plan designed by the famous Town Planner, Patrick Abercrombie.