Living in the Blitz

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World War II, Bomb Damage, circa 1942, Southwark Park Road

[Fogbrain]

This was taken in the playground of Fair Street School; the rear of Devon Mansions in the background. By Fogbrain.

For clarity - the identification of the location was by me - I didn't take the photo!

[kiwi]

Robot Plane ? Damage in WW2 in East Street Market England in 1944

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Family eating a meal outside the broken shell of Sayer Street School. Sayer Street was off New Kent Road near the railway bridge, it no longer exists.

Sayers St School,Elephant & Castle,1941-42

1939 Housewives of Roupell Street, near Waterloo, painting kerbs white to help night time traffic during WW2

[kiwi]

Anderson Shelter in Stalham Street, off Southwark Park Road,near Slippers Place c 1940

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An air raid shelter in a tube warehouse on Stanworth Street, Bermondsey.

[Gillian]

I was wondering if there are any photos at all of Spa Mansions, please. Both my grandmother and father were born there and their first flat became inhabitable following bombing in October 1940. They moved to another part of the building but had barely moved in when they were bombed out again on 10 May 1941. They lost everything as there was no water for the fireman to put the fire out. I have a copy of the architects drawings but would dearly love to see a photo.

[kiwi]

A huge crater was made in a road at Elephant & Castle, London on September 7, 1940, after a night raid on London

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O'Rourke family of St James's Road, Bermondsey, sleep under a blanket under railway arches,probably Dockley Road.

Women in Civil Defence Mrs Edith Digby, a 43 year old Air Raid Warden, on duty in Blitz-damaged Bermondsey, London.