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Description: | This interior view of the staff canteen at Elmers End bus garage shows repairs following damage caused by a V1 flying bomb during the Second World War.
V1 bombs were designed to explode on impact. These bombs, also called 'doodlebugs', were invented by the Germans and used as part of a major offensive from June 1944.
Around 70 bombs landed on London every day. They caused widespread panic because of their unpredictability and massive explosive power. However less damage was in fact sustained in 1944-45 than had been in 1940-41.
Dances such as the one advertised on the poster on the back wall were seen as important morale-boosters during the war years: an opportunity for people to forget the hardship of their everyday lives for a few hours. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | London at War Work | Temporal: | 15 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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