- Target:
- Sheffield City Council
- Region:
- United Kingdom
The city of Sheffield endured two nights of intense German bombing on December 12th and 15th, 1940. The devastating raids killed and injured over 2,000 people and made over 40,000 homeless.
Bombs were dropped across the entire length and breadth of the city with few suburbs escaping death and destruction.
Great swathes of the city centre were flattened including The Moor which has been totally rebuilt. The biggest single loss of life was in The Marples Hotel that received a direct hit and killed an estimated 70 people – bodies still remain buried to this day.
In 2010, on the seventieth anniversary of the raids, there is little to mark or remember the incredible sacrifices the city and its citizens made and we’re campaigning to get a permanent memorial on the site of The Marples Hotel and others in key sites like The Moor and ensure Sheffield doesn’t become the forgotten Blitz.
Your invaluable support will help us achieve these aims.
We, the undersigned, call on Sheffield City Council to spearhead a fundraising campaign to secure permanent and lasting memorials to mark and commemorate the Sheffield Blitz.
The scenes of devastation in areas like The Moor are still within living memory.
We want to ensure The Marples Hotel tragedy is never forgotten and that city’s spirit of defiance in the face of the Nazi bombing, which was held up as an example for all by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, lives on forever.
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The Don’t let Sheffield become the forgotten Blitz petition to Sheffield City Council was written by Neil Anderson and is in the category Military at GoPetition.