Description:The "Birmingham Gazette" in 1944 reported the following statistics. 2,227 people got killed in 77 Air Raids in Birmingham. 3,021 people were seriously injured and 3,689 were slightly hurt. The worst raid was on the night of Tuesday-Wednesday 19th-20th November 1940. 615 people were killed, 542 seriously injured and about the same number slightly hurt. The next worst raid was on Wednesday-Thursday 9th-10th April 1941. 350 were killed and 428 seriously injured, and about the same number not so badly hurt. 10,000 houses were totally destroyed in the War and well over 100,000 were badly damaged.
(taken from http://brianwilliams.org.uk/diary/1944.html )
This picture shows Moseley Road opposite St. Paul's Church from November 1940. The rest of this gallery shows the results of other bombing raids during World War 2.