Living in the Blitz

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Whitecross Street - WW2 - Blitz on London Date c1943. This is now called Ayres Street, Borough.

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One of some 2000 taxis converted for World War II fire brigade.

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Petrol ration books were issued monthly and the volume of motor spirit on offer depended on the horsepower of an individual vehicle. This ration book belonged to the owner of an eight-nine horsepower vehicle and subsequently contains coupons for two " units", i.e. two gallons.

1939.

WW2.

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Surrey Commercial Docks, Blitz WW2. A burnt-out cargo ship in the Surrey Commercial Docks, 1940.

Surrey Commercial Docks, the Blitz 1940, the remains of a warehouse.

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Awards for Brave Bermondsey Scouts. Mass Presentation of Gallant Awards, at Manor Mission, Galleywall Road.
Scouts who received the Silver Cross. Left to right Ernest Joseph Burgess, Cubmaster William C. Lench, Leonard (Nick) Murray, Charles Norris (Patrol Leader), George Francis Winmill and Eric Young, 1941.

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Bermondsey Wall--The Blitz 1944. Firefighters in action with fire engines and hosepipes at Chambers Wharf.

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Private Ted Saunders of the 2nd Army out shopping with his wife Margaret in Bermondsey while on leave during WW1, 1945.

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Camberwell Road Tram Depot air-raid damage.

Bomb damage,1940.

Damage caused by a flying bomb, c1944.

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Evacuees and local children at Hassocks. Sheila Catt (Clarke) third from the right (back), her brother is front centre. Evacuation Day — Friday 1st September 1939, WW2. Sheila Catt (nee Clarke) was from Bermondsey.

Evacuee from Bermondsey.

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World War Two, London, 10th, September 1942. Young child Brian Lee wearing his RAF uniform, studies the evacuation label on a model evacuee, Alice King aged 5, from Rotherhithe.