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'London's Guildhall after the fire of December 29th December 1940'. The Guildhall after the Second Great Fire of London, the name used at the time to refer to one of the most destructive air raids of the London Blitz. Over the night of 29/30 December 1940 more than 24,000 high explosive bombs and 100,000 incendiary bombs were dropped. From The Connoisseur, 1941 edited by H. Granville Fell. [The National Magazine Co. Ltd, London, 1941]