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Description: | When war with Germany looked inevitable, hospitals in London began to evacuate. The city was preparing for extensive German bombing raids like those carried out during the Spanish civil war.
Green line buses like the one here were withdrawn from service on 31 August 1939 and converted into ambulances. A patient is being carried to the bus on a stretcher while nurses from the Westminster Hospital and others look on. Sandbags have been piled up to protect the hospital windows.
The photo was taken on September 1 1939, two days before war was declared. It was in fact several months before the German bombing campaign against London began. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | London at War Home and Family | Temporal: | 1 Sep 1939 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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