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Fireman pulls his hose through the smouldering ruins of a bombed out church in London.

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth talking to residents of a bomb damaged area of London.

Bomb Site Visit

Homeless boy points out his bedroom to his friends, after his home had been wrecked during a random bombing raid in an eastern suburb of London.

Bomb damage sustained by the City of London. Tower Bridge can be seen in the background.

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth talking to residents of a bomb damaged area of London.

Royal War Visit

Queen Elizabeth and King George VI of Great Britain visiting a bomb site in East Ham, London, 23rd April 1941.

Visiting Bomb Sites

Fire-fighters in London during the blitz.

Fighting The Flames

10th October 1940: Because of the nightly bombing raids, many people from the more densely populated parts of London sleep in underground stations...

Milkman delivering milk in a street, devastated in a German bombing raid, in the Holborn area of London, 9th October 1940. Firemen are dampening down...

Delivery After Raid

The library at Holland House in Kensington, London, extensively damaged by a Molotov 'Breadbasket' fire bomb, 23rd October 1940.

Damaged Library

East Londoners enter a basement shelter in the first month of the Blitz, September 1940. Original publication: Picture Post - 297 - East End At War -...

Seeking Shelter

Winston Churchill As Prime Minister 1940-1945, The Prime Minister Winston Churchill visits bombed out buildings in the East End of London on 8...

Winston Churchill As Prime Minister 1940-1945

Damage to the House of Commons during the bombing of London in WW2.

Damage to the House of Commons during the bombing of London

Civilians help to clear a street in Brockley following a V2 rocket attack.

Civilians help to clear a street in Brockley following a V2 rocket attack

' London Again a City of Dreadful Night'. Caption to bombing on night of 16-17 April 1941 :'when waves of Nazi bombers, estimated to number between...

The War Illustrated 9 May 1941

People standing outside Chelsea Old Church which was reduced to rubble after a direct hit from a parachute mine during an air raid, London, 18th...

Chelsea Old Church Bomb Damage

During the blitz, police officers and area citizens walk by a sign that reads 'Danger Unexploded Bombs' and 'Road Closed', in London, early to mid...

Danger, Unexploded Bombb

Man entertaining three children with a toy in an air raid shelter during the Blitz, London, October 1940. Original Publication: Picture Post - 308 -...

Firefighters attempting to put out a fire after a German bombing attack, in London in May 1941, during the Blitz.

Firefighters In Action After A Bombing In London 1941

Bomb damage caused by a World War II air raid on south London, 12th September 1940.

Bomb damage caused by a World War II air raid on Paternoster Row, London, 29th December 1940.

Police officer and a soldier inspecting the aftermath of a German air raid, Portman Street, London, 19th September 1940.

War and Conflict, World War Two, pic: May 1941, Great Britain, A notice with a hint of humour on a London street, warning of a bomb ravaged street,...

War and Conflict World War Two. pic: May 1941. Great Britain. A notice with a hint of humour on a London street, warning of a bomb ravaged street, the pigeons appear to turn away in accordance with the instructions.

World War Two, London, England, 14th October 1940, Rescue workers stretcher a wounded civilian from the wreckage of a Stoke Newington London house...

World War Two, London, England, 14th October 1940, Rescue workers stretcher a wounded civilian from the wreckage of a Stoke Newington London house after an air raid

World War Two, 14th October 1940, London, England, Rescue workers stretcher a wounded civilian from the wreckage of a Stoke Newington house after a...

World War Two, 14th October 1940, London, England, Rescue workers stretcher a wounded civilian from the wreckage of a Stoke Newington house after an air raid

World War II, 10th March 1941, London, England, The scene outside the House of Lords, Westminster after a German night bombing raid

World War II, 10th March 1941, London, England, The scene outside the House of Lords, Westminster after a German night bombing raid

The site of an air raid, which severely damaged St Thomas' Hospital, London, May 1941. The Palace of Westminster and Big Ben can be seen across the...

Hospital Bombing

St Paul's District in London during the Blitz in World War Two; 1941. By Cecil Beaton 1904-1980.

St Paul's District in London during the Blitz in World War Two; 1941. by Cecil Beaton 1904-1980.

Members of the public watching a performance by the Entertainments National Service Association, as they shelter from bomb raids in Aldwych Tube...

Performance in Aldwych Tube Station, 1940

World War two; The Blitz air raids over London, 1940.

The Blitz air raids over London.

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In this digital composite image a comparison has been made between a London scene during the Blitz of 1940-1941 and present day, to remember the 75th...

Scenes From The London Blitz - Now and Then

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Scenes From The London Blitz - Now and Then

London, England: The Duke of Kent, youngest brother of King George VI of England, with Admiral Sir Edward Evans, walking past the police danger sign...

Duke Of Kent With Admiral Sir Evans

London, England: When a famous London Catholic Church was destroyed by a German bomb the Crucifix remained upright amid the ruins. Looking south the...

Wrecked Church Where This Area Was Safe

Inhabitants of Kennington Road in south-east London gather to survey the damage to a blitzed building after a World War II German air raid.

Shell Of A Building

City workers picking their way through the rubble and debris of Fore Street in the City of London destroyed by incendiary bombs during the Blitz.

Wally's barber shop, St Martin Street has defiant signs outside after losing its windows during the London blitz.

Fighting Spirit

Policeman and a soldier of the Home Guard walk past vehicles wrecked during a German bombing raid near Marble Arch, London.

Wrecked Vehicles

Fireman examining the ruined bells of St. Bride's Church in Fleet Street after an incendiary attack on London in WW II. The bronze bells were...

Group of soldiers involved in clearing the debris during the blitz on London, show all their different headwear.

Members of the Royal Engineers brewing up during a break in clearing debris caused by incendiary bomb raids in the blitz on London in WW II.

Royal Engineers clear up a bomb-damaged building in London, which is regaled with a sign saying 'Hitler Can't Put Out The Sun!'.

Cheerful Slogan

Bus in a bomb crater in London.

Firemen at work on fires, the result of bombs dropped by the Germans, near St Paul's Cathedral, London.

Scene in central London, the morning after a bomb raid.

British citizens take shelter in an underground tube station during the Blitz phase of the Battle of Britain, in which London was bombed every night...

Underground Shelter

Young boys swinging from a lamp post in the midst of rubble left by a bombing raid on London during the Blitz.

An area near St Pancras Station in London showing the damage caused by a German air raid during the London blitz in World War II.

King George VI of Great Britain and Queen Elizabeth talking to a workman in a bomb damaged area of London.

Royal Tour During The Blitz

Hole in the roof of St Paul's Cathedral above the altar after the cathedral was hit in a German bombing raid. Debris from the roof is lying in front...

Damaged Cathedral

The ruins of buildings bombed in German air raids beside St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London.

Workers amongst the debris in Holborn, central London, following a daylight raid.

The London Blitz

St Paul's cathedral standing above the surrounding burning buildings during the London blitz, 29th December 1940.

St Paul's Survives

Fires burning in central London after Luftwaffe air raids during the blitz, December 1940. The dome of St Paul's Cathedral is on the right.

St Paul's During The Blitz

The Rev French, the Church of England's Rural Dean of Stepney, makes his rounds through the bomb-damaged streets of east London, during the Blitz,...

Firefighters target a blaze in the Guildhall, in the City of London, following a German air raid during The Blitz, World War II, 30th December 1940.

Fire In The City

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Sheltering In The Underground

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