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Description: | Shelterers sleep on the escalators and on the concourse floor at Piccadilly Circus Underground station during the Blitz. The platforms must already have been occupied. Some of the women are still wearing their hats.
Soon after the Blitz began in September 1940, many people made their way into the deep Tube tunnels every evening in spite of initial opposition from the authorities. The uplighters on the escalators are all alight, though the shelterers asked that they be dimmed during the night to allow them to sleep.
People did not sleep on the escalators for long. London Transport soon improved accommodation facilities for shelterers.
On the back of this print is written “Refreshments for the shelterers, first glimpse of the problem.” London Transport was presumably trying to organise food for the shelterers. This did come later. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Sport & General/ Alpha Press | Subjects: | Transport London at War | Temporal: | Sep 1940 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Creator: | Photographer : Sport & General | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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