Harry Paticas Architecture Ltd. The anniversary of Britain’s worst wartime civilian tragedy is coming up again, and the campaign to erect a permanent memorial is gaining steam. On 3 March 1943, 173 people died at Bethnal Green Tube Station during an air-raid alert (which turned …
View Larger Map Autumn 1944, and London was under attack from space. Hitler’s ‘vengeance’ rocket, the V-2, was the world’s first ballistic missile, and the first man-made object to make a sub-orbital spaceflight. Over 1400 were launched at Britain, with more than 500 striking London. …
LIFE magazine and Google Images have teamed up to make millions of archive images available to the public for the first time. Within this stupendous resource are hidden thousands of pictures of a vanished London. We say ‘hidden’ because searching for ‘London’ yields no results. …
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