Includes: reports of H.W. Newton, Head of the Solar Department, to the Astronomer Royal following bomb damage at RO Greenwich on the nights of 15th, 19th and 21st October 1940, including a message from Newton to the Astronomer Royal that the Altazimuth building had been hit and the instrument wrecked; reports of minor bomb damage on 8 December 1940 and of a bomb drop on 27th December 1940; correspondence concerning repairs; report of air raids/incendiary bombs on March 19th-20th, 19th-20th April 1941, 10-11th May 1941; reports of damage from flying bombs on 15th and 27th July 1944.