Inside the old Coventry Cathedral

The shell of the old cathedral is open to the public and the tower at the west end survived the fire bombs of that November 1940 attack.

Here is where the altar stood

You can see how the west tower survived -

Coventry is twinned with Dresden - for obvious reasons - and Dresden's (fairly small) Frauenkirche cathedral was rebuilt in 2005 after the two Germanys were reunited.

Here you can see the inside of the old cathedral and the new one next door.

And here's a tribute to all those Captain Mainwarings and their followers from those dark days of the Second War.

This came from Dresden -

And this emphasizes the link with Hiroshima -

And here's the story of the old Coventry Cathedral -