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Description: | These Second World War air-raid shelterers are in bunks at Covent Garden Underground station on 7 March 1941.
It was mainly poorer families from in high-density housing who used public shelters during the Second World War. The shelters were often damp and unhygienic, though the authorities did improve conditions after the first few months of bombing. Communal living in the shelters meant that the private became public: a woman breast-feeds her baby on the platform since there is no alternative.
Wealthier Londoners had Anderson shelters in their gardens, or were able to take refuge from the bombs in the basements of smart clubs and hotels in the City and West End.
Note that cigarettes were still considered good for your throat! | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | London at War | Temporal: | 7 Mar 1941 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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