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Re: OLD KENT ROAD.
Posted: Sat Dec 14, 2019 12:24 am
by Sean.Byrne
Re: Living in the Blitz
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2019 8:33 pm
by Sean.Byrne
Peckham, Cow Lane Bridge was hit by a V2. I was amazed at the size of the V2 when I saw it in the Imperial War museum. I think it had a one ton warhead but setting aside the damage from the explosives at impact the simple mass of the V2 at supersonic impact must have been enormous.
When a V2 hit Balham it caused a cave in all the way down to the tube line with serious damage above
- Balham tube V2 cave in
- Cave in above Balham tube
Re: Living in the Blitz
Posted: Wed Dec 18, 2019 8:43 pm
by Sean.Byrne
- Safety below ground at Elephant and Castle tube
- And not so safe defusing a bomb above ground
- St Pancrass station bombed
Re: Living in the Blitz
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2020 7:21 am
by kiwi
Elephant & Castle Underground station, Bakerloo and Northern lines. Interior view showing a canteen set up on platform for shelterers during the Second World War. The area has been decorated with a flag and Christmas decorations. Tea or soup urns can be seen, together with a makeshift counter, behind which catering staff stand. A crowd of shelterers stand in the background. The canteen was declared one of the 'three best decorated canteens' for Xmas 1944.
- Xmas 1944
Re: Living in the Blitz
Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 4:05 am
by kiwi
A gang of workmen repairing tram tracks in the vicinity of Borough High Street which had been damaged by enemy bombing, 24 Oct 1940.
- 1940.
Re: Living in the Blitz
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2020 12:45 am
by kiwi
Re: Living in the Blitz
Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2020 2:19 am
by kiwi
London Transport motorcycle dispatch rider Jill Horscroft at Camberwell bus garage, 1940 – 1945.
Re: Living in the Blitz
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2020 10:10 pm
by kiwi
Throughout the 1940s every man woman and child in Britain owned ration books of coupons that had to be used to obtain food and clothing. Clothing rationing was introduced in 1941 and lasted eight years.
- WW2 RATION BOOK.
- Glengall Road, bomb damage, 12 September 1940.
Re: Living in the Blitz
Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2020 7:26 pm
by SueItzinger
Druid Street Bombing October 1940
My family name is Itzinger. Relatives who lived at 142 Abbey Street lost their youngest daughter, called Gladys Victoria and a grandmother. Emma Bridger. I have asked the local Labour MP to see if Southwark Council would be able to organise a Rememberance Service. I have made contact through Ancestry to the older sister's family. My family now live in Leeds, Yorkshire, but I am hoping by using your site that many families involved in the Druid Street bombing may come together.
Thank you for passing on my message
Sue Itzinger
Re: Living in the Blitz
Posted: Sat May 16, 2020 4:12 am
by kiwi
- Southwark Street bomb damage WW2
- Southwark Street on fire. London Blitz, Dec 1940, WW2.