Living in the Blitz

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SURREY DOCKS – 1940 Fire at Surrey Commercial Docks, Rotherhithe on Sept. 7, 1940, the first day of the Blitz.

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Schooling was disrupted not only by the evacuations and frequent moves, but also by the threat of bombs. Here, students and teachers from a school in Bermondsey in South London strive for a sense of normalcy. The photo, taken on March 29, 1941, shows students participating in a reading and discussion group.

1941

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Originally Posted by paperboy 2015.

Guards of the Household Brigade. 1914.

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Elephant and Castle London Underground Station Shelter: People sleeping on the crowded platform of Elephant and Castle tube station while taking shelter from German air raids during the London Blitz.

1941.

Elephant and Castle Underground Station 1941,during the Blitz. Miss A. Potter teaching children in a maths lesson, as they shelter during an air raid over London.

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BLACKFRIARS ROAD 1940 Aftermath of a high explosive bomb in Blackfriars Road, London, on 24 October 1940. There is visible damage to the train bridge between London Bridge and Waterloo stations, and to two trams travelling under the bridge.
The Ring Public House out of the picture to the left.

The other side of the Bridge.

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A group of smiling evacuees from Rotherhithe, with gas mask boxes hold hands on a walk in Reading c1940.

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The aftermath of a bombing at a London hospital in November 1940 Nurses doing the cleaning up.... We tend to forget just how much the Nurses did and the dangers they worked under.

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These are some of the things children wrote in their school books in South London during WW2. The innocence of children during such a dangerous and sad time in their lives can still make you smile.

“In Wartime Children Who Lived In
Big Cities Had to Be Evaporated
Because It Was Safer in The Country.”



“Sometimes in The War They Take Presners and Keep
Them as Ostriges Until the War is Over.
Some Prisners End Up in Consterpation Camps”

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ELEPHANT & CASTLE

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London Evacuees in Carmarthenshire, Wales, 1940 Boys of the Rotherhithe Nautical School, Bermondsey, London at boat drill at Ferry side, Carmarthenshire.