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Escudo heráldico: en azur, dos tibias en sotuer, acoladas por dos rosas heráldicas y escudete con mano de gules; en jefe, banda de oro, cargada de flor de nençufar; al timbre, yelmo tarado de frente con burelete; lambrequines; por cimera, torre y brazo armado, con banderola pendiendo de la espada. Rodeando el escudo, collar de Lord Mayor de la ciudad de Londres; detrás, espada y cetro en sotuer. En los ángulos superiores, bandera con cruz de gules y una espada en palo, culminada con corona; en el otro, el arpa de Irlanda
Includes an unpaged appendix, "Royal warrant holders."
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A quarter of a century before the Blitz of 1940, the inhabitants of south-west Essex were terrorized by an earlier aerial menace. Over the course of four years, German Zeppelins, Gothas and Giants flew above their homes, unleashing hundreds of highly explosive and incendiary bombs on London. During three of these raids, bombs were dropped on Leyton and many others landed elsewhere in south-west Essex. These early air raids are now largely forgotten in local memory, but for the inhabitants of the time the attacks were unprecedented, unexpected and lethal.In the years since the Great War a great deal of literature has been published on London's first air raids and about the defence network tha...