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Description: | A mock gas attack took place in High Street, Esher. Tear-gas was released and caught many Saturday morning shoppers unaware. People in gas masks wait at a bus stop during the exercise.
The government issued gas masks to everyone in Britain. Gas attacks were feared in Britain, both sides having used them in the trenches during the First World War. Towards the end of the war these fears receded, and people no longer carried their masks everywhere. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | Cityscape London at War | Temporal: | 5 Apr 1941 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Creator: | Photographer : Topical Press | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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