oil on board, 30 cm x 30 cm, Iain White £200
Coventry lost not only its great medieval church of St Michael's, the only English Cathedral to be destroyed in the Second World War, but its central library and market hall, hundreds of shops and public building and 16th century Palace Yard, where James II had once held court. More than 43,000 homes, just over half the city's housing stock, were damaged with nearly 2,500 of them completely destroyed in the raid.