The Linen Hall, Donegall Square North, Belfast

Belfast Telegraph Spitfire Fund

Within the unique collections of The Linen Hall in Belfast is a book collating newspaper cuttings of all those who contributed to the Belfast Telegraph Spitfire Fund in 1940.

A bound collection of newspaper cuttings detailing the residents and businesses of Belfast and Northern Ireland who contributed to the Belfast Telegraph Spitfire fund in 1940. — © WartimeNI / Linen Hall Library Info

News of donations from Philadelphia, U.S.A. contained within the bound collection of newspaper cuttings detailing the residents and businesses of Belfast and Northern Ireland who contributed to the Belfast Telegraph Spitfire fund in 1940. — © WartimeNI / Linen Hall Library Info

Details of contributions contained within the bound collection of newspaper cuttings detailing the residents and businesses of Belfast and Northern Ireland who contributed to the Belfast Telegraph Spitfire fund in 1940. — © WartimeNI / Linen Hall Library Info

News of a donation from an Orange Order dance in New Jersey, U.S.A. contained within the bound collection of newspaper cuttings detailing the residents and businesses of Belfast and Northern Ireland who contributed to the Belfast Telegraph Spitfire fund in 1940. — © WartimeNI / Linen Hall Library Info

The Protection of your Home

Across the United Kingdom, including in Northern Ireland, citizens received government advice on how to prepare for air raids during the Second World War.

The A.R.P. Warden Book

An interesting artifact from the Belfast Blitz features in the collections of The Linen Hall. The A.R.P. Warden book contains hundreds of documents relating to search and rescue efforts, unexploded bombs, and dealing with casualties.

Copies of notes and documentation taken from Air Raid Precautions and First Aid Posts in Belfast during the Belfast Blitz of April and May 1941 in the custody of The Linen Hall, Belfast. — © WartimeNI / Linen Hall Library Info

Bombs on Belfast

The Belfast Telegraph published 'Bombs on Belfast' as a record of some of the destruction caused across the city following the Luftwaffe attacks of April and May 1941.

Belfast Blitz Photographs

Within the archives of The Linen Hall in Belfast is a leather-bound album of dozens of photographs. Taken by an unknown photographer, they show the damage caused to the north and east of the city in April and May 1941.

Photographs of the destruction caused by Luftwaffe raids on Belfast in April and May 1941 contained within a small leather-bound album in the custody of The Linen Hall, Belfast. — © WartimeNI / Linen Hall Library Info