War Shrine:

Antique French 1800s Jesus brass plaque, Victorian-era porch balusters, 1930s Wyandotte Marx Bell YFM-1 Airacuda Bomber, vintage Italian nativity sheep, 1940s Barclay Manoil toy lead soldiers, aged iron stars.

The air raid on Coventry, on the night of November 14th, 1940, was the single most concentrated attack on a British city in the Second World War. Codenamed 'Moonlight Sonata', the raid lasted for 11 hours and involved nearly 500 Luftwaffe bombers. The Luftwaffe dropped 500 tons of high explosives, and 30,000 exploding incendiary bombs made of magnesium and petroleum. Coventry lost its great medieval church of St Michael's, the only English Cathedral to be destroyed in the Second World War. The smell and heat of the burning city reached into the cockpits of the German bombers, 6,000 feet above.