- 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.
Living in the Blitz
Re: Living in the Blitz
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”

“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”
Re: Living in the Blitz
Fire crew tackling a blaze following an air raid, at Taylors Great Central Depository in St Georges Road, Southwark, on 31 January 1941.
Re: Living in the Blitz
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.
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.
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