Steven,
Try the series by Battle of Prints International:
The Blitz Then and Now (3 vols.)
You can find them here.
After the Battle
This one was recently printed as part of an ENglish Heritage project;
AA Command: Britain's Anti-Aircraft Defences of the Second World War by Colin Dobinson(
Methuen) , and contains a gazetteer of every gunsite in Britain.
There are a couple of official histories:
The Defence of the United Kingdom by Basil Collier, which was reprinted by Naval and Military Press/The Imperial War Museum a few years ago. An accompanying volume on Civil Defence was printed in 1955, but I can't remember the author's name. You might be able to find it at:
UKBookworld
Your local council archives might have copies of incident books kept by the Air Raid Precautions wardens, or even the local Royal Observer Corps unit. Only book I can think of on this was
Attack Warning Red; A History of the Royal Observer Corps to 1975 by Derek Wood.
Failing that, try the
National Archives.You'll find a list of London-based researchers who could do the donkey work for you fairly cheaply.
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