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21. The aftermath of a V1 strike on Marlow Road, East Ham.
	The V1 was called the 'buzz bomb' or 'doodlebug' because of the characteristic buzzing sound of the engine before it cut out and drifted to earth...

22. The Council Chambers of Bermondsey Town Hall.
	The ornate Council Chamber in Bermondsey Town Hall. It was destroyed by a V1 flying bomb in 1944.

23. People around a bomb crater in Ravenscroft Road.
	By June 1941 over a million houses in London had been damaged or destroyed and one Londoner in six had been homeless at some point. Over 20,000...

24. New housing being built on Appleby Road, part of the Keir Hardie Estate in Canning Town.
	Around 35% of the London housing stock was destroyed during the Second World War and many homes that had survived were slums. The 1945 Labour...

25. Bombed out houses in East London.
	During the Blitz, millions of homes, offices and factories were destroyed or damaged. At the end of the war a huge amount of rubble and debris had to...

26. Children at a station platform during their evacuation.
	The evacuation of British cities at the start of the second World War was the biggest and most concentrated mass movement of people in Britain's...

27. Civil Defence and Food Office staff preparing food.
	Beef, pork and lamb were all rationed and very difficult to get hold of during World War II. People had to be inventive with their sources of food...

28. Clearing bomb damaged buildings on South Molton Street.
	Between September 1940 and May 1941, 1.4 million Londoners were bombed out of their homes. This photograph shows two civil defence workers clearing...

29. Bomb damage in the East End.
	During the Blitz 3.5 million homes were damaged in London. The greatest destruction was in the East End. By 11 November 1940, 40% of houses in...

30. Anti-gas personnel from the Arragon Road Depot, East Ham.
	London Air Raid Precautions (ARP) personnel were trained to handle gas attacks. The Decontamination Service was trained to clean roads, buildings and...


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