A priest stands in the roofless shell of St. George’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, on the corner of St. George’s Road and Lambeth Road in Southwark, South East London. The Cathedral was severely damaged by an incendiary bomb attack in 1942.

lostsplendor:

“A Dufaycolor colour transparency of the Old Bailey, London, damaged by German bombing, taken by an unknown photographer in 1941, during the second world war.” (via National Media Museum)

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maudelynn:

London, during the Blitz, June 1941

Fuck this, I need some tea.

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A slightly less well-known variation on the famous “Keep Calm and Carry On” posters of the London Blitz.

Air Raid Warden poster, ca. 1939-1941.

London Library after the Blitz. Some 6 million rare books burned down in the fire that raged through the bookmaker’s district near St. Paul’s after an air raid struck it.

Londoners wearing government issued gas masks. As far as I have been able to gather, there were no major gas attacks on London during the Blitz, but the fear and paranoia about gas, especially in a post-WWI world, was very real and prevalent. It seems that after the Blitz, though, people bothered less and less with masks.

Workers clearing away wreckage next to a church in Central London.

Workers clearing up rubble after a heavy air raid during the Blitz.