Bomb-damaged buildings around Blackfriars with the spire of St Martin, Ludgate Hill, rising above the rooftops, City of London

NOTES: A third of the City's buildings were destroyed by aerial attack between September 1940 and March 1945. The Midland Bank in view in front of the spire of St Martin's is the Pageantmaster Court elevation of the Ludgate Hill branch of the Midland Bank, designed by T. E. Collcutt (1891)