Living in the Blitz

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Old Kent Road, Blitz in London -- firefighters in action with hoses at South Metropolitan Gas Works.

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Business as usual The British mentality during the summer of 1940.

Just love the humour

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On May the 10th and 11th 1941 the Elephant and Castle suffered heavy attacks in the Blitz. Around one third of the built environment was destroyed.

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A group of children who had been evacuated from Bermondsey, Southwark to Worthing in Surrey in January 1940.

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Dunton Road, Sandbags outside a house, September, 1939.

Grove Street, Bomb Damage

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1940 WW2.

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Redcross Street, WW2, London Blitz c1940. Now Redcross Way.

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Union Street, Sept 1940, WW2. X

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It’s strange that I have come across these pictures on Remembrance weekend 9th-10th November 2019, of the Memorial Service in Bermondsey 1943, for Lidice a mining village about 15 miles from Prague, Czechoslovakia.
If you haven’t heard or read about the horrors that happened in Lidice in 1942, I will leave it to yourselves to make that decision to find out.
Have we really solved anything from war,? have we really learnt after 76yrs from the Lidice Horror or the end of WW2,? Sadly I have my doubts.

Memorial Service for Lidice at a Spa Road bomb site, Bermondsey on 10 June 1943.

Czechoslovak servicemen sing at Bermondsey’s Lidice memorial service,1943.

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