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21. 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...

22. 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...

23. Night-time raid on the Surrey Commercial Docks.
	The Surrey Docks were traditionally used as a storage area for huge lengths of timber imported from the Baltic countries. Great logs were floated in...

24. Poster explaining how to tackle fire bombs.
	Incendiary or 'fire bombs' were dropped in order to start large fires. There were two varieties. The first was an oil bomb, a device in which...

25. Ration book and clothing book.
	Food rationing began on 8 January 1940. Each person was allowed a specific mount of basic foods. Clothes rationing on points began in June 1941 and a...

26. Rescue workers removing an injured person from the ruins.
	Rescue workers from a Heavy Rescue Team in Southwark remove an injured person on a stretcher. Rescues could sometimes last for days, often continuing...

27. Rescue workers survey bomb damage.
	Thousands of civilians were killed during the bombing of the Second World War. Many more were injured and numerous buildings were completely, or...

28. Rescue workers after a bombing raid on Bermondsey.
	Rescue workers amongst the rubble, salvaging what they can, after a bombing raid on Bermondsey during the Second World War.

29. Repairing bomb damage on Beckton Road.
	Travel during the Blitz was made difficult because the streets and roads were blocked by masonry, bomb craters and burst mains. The rail and...

30. Ration queue on Walworth Road
	During World War II, some goods such as bread, alcohol and tobacco were not rationed in order to keep up morale. As the war went on, even bread was...


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