View east down the Thames towards smoke rising from fires in Surrey docks, following the first German air raid of the London Blitz, 7th September...
Members of the public watching a performance by the Entertainments National Service Association, as they shelter from bomb raids in Aldwych Tube...
Miss Ena Squire-Brown, an international dancer famed for her 'Dove Dance', leaves her recently bombed home for St. George's Church in Forest Hill, to...
World War Two, England, 13th October Four little girls shelter from an air raid under the table at the National Children's Home and Orphanage during...
Air War: Battle of Britain German ground crew mebers writing sarcastic texts on bombs destined for London. 12./
Group of men sleeping on an escalator as they shelter from an air raid, in a London Underground Station during the Blitz, 10th October 1940.
Firefighters of the Auxiliary Fire Service attend the scene of a blazing building near Piccadillly, Central London, after high explosive bombs were...
The ruins of Earl Street in Coventry during the devastating Coventry Blitz of World War II, November 1940. The most severe raid took place on the...
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...
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.
Wartime scene as Londoners seek shelter and bed down on the platform at Holborn underground station to escape from German Luftwaffe air raids during...
During.... / Air War: Battle of Britain Underground stations serving as shelters during the german bomb attacks on London. 1940
Families take cover from the Luftwaffe in a disused London Underground railway tunnel. September 1940.
Contact sheet from a Picture Post magazine story depicting firefighters tackling a blaze during the Blitz, London, 1941; the images include portraits...
Wartime view of Londoners sitting on benches reading newspapers in Trafalgar Square, with St Martin-in-the-Fields church in the background, during...
Prime Minister Winston Churchill, with his wife and the American ambassador, visits the bombed city of Bristol, England in April, 1941.
Air War: Battle of Britain Clearing works after a german bomb attack on a industrial plant in Belfast Spring 1941
King George VI of Great Britain, Queen Elizabeth and Prime Minister Winston Churchill inspecting bomb damage at Buckingham Palace.
World War II, 12th March A general view of the City of London, with St Paul's Cathederal swathed in smoke, after a bombing raid by the German...
Smoke pours from a building near St. Paul's Cathedral during the Blitz bombing campaign in London. September 1940.
His Majesty King George VI and Herbert Morrison , the home secretary and minister of home security inspect air-raid damage in war-time Coventry. They...
Firemen at work on fires, the result of bombs dropped by the Germans, near St Paul's Cathedral, London.
St Paul's cathedral standing above the surrounding burning buildings during the London blitz, 29th December 1940.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill , British politician, touring the blitz damaged streets in the City of London. He is accompanied by his wife...
Three young women giving the thumbs-up through union jack flags, which are being used to cover the broken windows of a cycle painting shop in south...
General cityscape view of the City of London, St Paul's Cathedral and the smoke from burning buildings following the German Luftwaffe blitz on the...
View east from the Temple area of London, after German bombing raids during the blitz, circa 1941. On the right are the Monument to the Great Fire of...
Prime Minister Winston Churchill inspecting the ruins of Manchester's Free Trade Hall after a bombing raid in WW II.
Rescue workers and police clamber over the wreckage of a junior school in Liverpool, bombed during a German air raid.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill inspecting air raid damage in Battersea, south London, during the Blitz, 10th September 1940.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and his wife inspect bomb-damage in the City of London during the Blitz, 31st December 1940.
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth survey some of the damage after the bombing of Buckingham Palace, London, during the Second World War.
Two Luftwaffe Dornier 217 bombers flying over the Silvertown area of London's Docklands on 7th September 1940 at the beginning of the Blitz on...
Londoners sheltering in an underground station during an air raid. Original Publication: Picture Post - 319 - And This Is A London Tube Station -...
Children make a see-saw out of an upturned dustbin and a plank of wood in a street full of debris after a bomb raid in London. September 1940.
Queen Elizabeth and King George VI inspect the bomb damage at Buckingham Palace in London, after an air raid during the Blitz, 10th September 1940.
Bomb damage in Liverpool during the Second World War. A street surface shelter which withstood the strain of a tall building which fell upon it...
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth inspect bomb damage to Buckingham Palace following German Luftwaffe air raids over London during The Blitz and...
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...
View of air raid damage in London during the blitz, with St. Paul's Cathedral still standing in the distance, World War Two, England, 1940.
Huge hole in the Strand, where a bomb was dropped during an air raid over central London. It fell near the Gaiety Theatre and the church of St....
Postman tries to deliver letters to premises in Watling Street in the City of London, after a night time German air raid, London, May 1941. The dome...
Firemen tackle a blitz fire amidst the rubble surrounding St Paul's Cathedral, London, May 1941. St Paul's Cathedral can be seen in the background.
St Paul's Cathedral seen through the flames and smoke of blazing buildings in the City of London during the Blitz.
Shelter Photographs Taken In London By Bill Brandt, November 1940, Elephant and Castle London Underground Station Shelter: People sleeping on the...
Motor car in a bomb crater, Bristol, Second World War, 18 March 1941". ‘This car was unable to stop and fell into the bomb crater, following a German...