Living in the Blitz

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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.

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Fire crew tackling a blaze following an air raid, at Taylors Great Central Depository in St Georges Road, Southwark, on 31 January 1941.

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Wartime ration chart for clothing. It's no wonder my Mum was so frugal all her life.

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The Grange Bermondsey Bomb Damage in 1941 WW2.

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Wansey St, Elephant & Castle, Army Recruiting Office 1915 WW1.
Walworth Town Hall, during Lord Derby’s recruitment campaign

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Southwark Park, Rotherhithe in 1940, WW2

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The Fey family, who appeared to have lived in Bermondsey during the WW1.
Albert Edward Fey is understood to have served in the 9th (Machine Gun) Battalion Royal Naval Division during WWI. Albert Edward Fey & Ellen Sarah Elliston, married in1907, when they were both 23. Pictured with their three children Annie Florence Fey b.1908 Ethel Caroline Fey b.1910 and Albert Edward Fey junior b.1913. Photo Angles Studio 110 Southwark Park Road.
The other picture taken at EC Watling studio, based at 33 Jamaica Road, Bermondsey, shows a young girl dressed up as a soldier, the young girl appears to be wearing her father’s trench cap and kit, a leather bandolier, water bottle and what looks like a haversack.