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Description: | Wilfred Haines viewed this dramatic scene from the Rotherhithe barge building yards at Beard's and Carr's wharves.
Parachute flares, deployed by German bombers, illuminate the London skyline. They fall towards the Wapping entrance of the London Docks as searchlights criss-cross the night sky.
Wimbledon-born Haines was a fireman with the National Fire Service's River Thames Formation during the Second World War. He was known as one of the 'fireman artists', sketching or painting what he had seen either from memory or at the location of the incident.
Haines was killed outside a pub when a flying bomb fell on nearby residential houses. He is buried at Wimbledon Cemetery. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Digital image Museum of London | Subjects: | Cityscape London at War Art and Design | Temporal: | 1940-1945 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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