Living in the Blitz

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Gas Mask fitting 1940, WW2.

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East Lane, Robot plane damage WW2, c1944.

A casualty being taken to ambulance with a friend comforting him after he had helped to get him out.

c1944.

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Two women leaving the Peacock Street school in Southwark, where they voted during World War II.

World War Two, 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, whilst waiting on the platform at Euston station.

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Old Kent Road. Air Raid Precaution exercise, a Bedford ambulance taking part in the drill c1939.

Albert Pearcey a 63 year old cooper of Rotherhithe, 1944.

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World War II, 28th December 1940, Residents of houses and flats bombed out in the Old Kent Road, the morning after the raid by German Bombers during the second World War.

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In the autumn of 1944, the original arch and its namesake pub were wiped out in two V2 rocket attacks which, although occurring several days apart in late October and early November, managed to strike the exact same spot in an extremely unlucky twist of fate.
A total of 11 civilians were killed by the blasts.

Southwark Park Road, John Bull Arch. 1944.