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Description: | This canteen for shelterers was set up on a platform at Elephant & Castle Underground station. London Transport tried to provide some much-needed Christmas cheer during wartime. Tea or soup urns can be seen behind a makeshift counter. This canteen was voted one of the 'three best-decorated canteens' for Christmas 1944. By this time the Blitz was over, but London was still under attack from German V1 flying bombs and rockets.
About 60,000 shelterers a night took refuge in the Underground, in some 79 stations in central London. Toilets and washrooms were installed for the shelterers and medical assistance was available.
The food in the canteens included meat pies, pasties, apple turnovers and copious amounts of tea, hot chocolate and milk. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | London at War | Temporal: | 22 Dec 1944 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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