New interactive map shows the terrible human cost of the 1940 Christmas Blitz in Manchester

They were the bloodiest 48 hours in the history of Manchester and are now slipping away from living memory. Just before Christmas in 1940, more than 750 civilians - many of them families with children - were killed in their homes during two nights of intense bombing by the Nazis.

No-one who lived through the terror of the Manchester Blitz will ever forget the bombardment, which ended on Christmas Eve with the city in ruins. However, with the passing of the years, any survivors will now be aged in their late eighties or nineties at least.

As Manchester prepares marks the 83rd anniversary of the start of the attacks December 22 to 24 - the M.E.N. has compiled a new interactive map detailing the appalling human cost of the German raids. Every civilian death has been pinpointed to the buildings and streets where they lost their lives as destruction rained from the skies.

The map includes a postcode search function to allow you to see how the bombardment unfolded in your Manchester neighbourhood. Each point is a bomb which killed Mancunians, detailed with the names and ages of those who lost their lives.

Interactive map:

Across the city, there was a terrible loss of life caused by the Luftwaffe's tactic of running indiscriminate night-time bombing raids across a major centre of population. While the Germans may have been targeting Manchester's industrial centres, the lack of precision from their bombers resulted in huge collateral damage.

The attacks were concentrated around the city centre but stray bombs killed civilians as far away as Prestwich, Bolton, Stockport and Altrincham. At one house in Moss Side - 54 Fernleaf Street - eleven people lost their lives, including a one-year-old boy and a two-year-old girl. Three