Londoners sheltering in an underground station during an air raid. Original Publication: Picture Post - 319 - And This Is A London Tube Station -...
People sleeping whilst sheltering from air raids in Holborn tube station, 1940. | Location: Kingsway, London, England, UK.
Woman feeding her baby in an underground tube station used as an air raid shelter during the war, London. November 1943
Family, each carrying their gas masks in a little box, enter the dug-out air raid shelter in their garden, 1939.
Those who went to shelters began a new kind of night-life, 11th November, 1940', 1942. London residents taking shelter in Elephant and Castle tube...
London, England: Weary London are shown catching up on sleep in the comparative safety of a tube station, taken out of service and converted into an...
Air Raid Precautions, cigarette card, British, 1938. Ventilated gas-proof shelter: the ventilator was normally powered by electricity, but could be...
Getting to sleep on the Underground. Original Publication: Picture Post - 319 - And This Is A London Tube Station - pub. 1940
Members of the public take cover in an air raid shelter following a siren warning in the city centre on August 22, 2022 in Lviv, Ukraine. August 24...
Senior man goes down the stairs into an air raid shelter set up by volunteers in an old shelter built after WWII in Shevchenko Park, Odesa, southern...
Boys at a Dr Barnardo's home have fun in the air raid shelter they built themselves at Christmas, 17th December 1940.
British Red Cross staff examine patients sheltering in Piccadilly underground station during World War II, January 1941.
Viewing the two Home Office steel shelters which are being made by John Summers and Sons of Shotton. Mr Geoffrey Summers and Mr J T Kirk, Home Office...
Under the arches. Children of St Albans School, Liverpool, having their Christmas party in the air raid shelters in the North End. The shelters are...
British civilians sleep on the ground in a subway station being used as an air raid shelter during the Battle of Britain. London, ca. 1940. |...
Interior of gas and bomb proof office building in London, built by Carrier Engineering Company in 1937.
Young girls sleeps under Christmas decorations and stockings stuffed with treats in 1940. Santa Claus has visited this British home, but World War II...
Residents of London sleep on the platform and tracks at a subway station. The tunnel was converted to an air raid shelter after German attacks on the...
Londoners sheltering from an air-raid on the stairs between escalators at Bounds Green underground station, 11th October 1940.
Sir Anton Dolin , Britain's first male premier dancer and founder of the Markova-Dolin Company, on duty in a bunker as air raid warden during World...
Members of the Wilbraham Infants School percussion band practising in a shelter during an air raid in Manchester. The idea is to entertain the...
Man handing out information to the members of the audience during a concert given by ENSA at Aldwych underground station, London. The audience is...
The occupants of a beautifully decorated London bomb shelter enjoying refreshments, after working day and night to give their refuge a Christmas...
Air raid shelters under construction at the factory in Newport, Wales, before being transported to London. The shelters are to be supplied to every...
Wartime Anderson shelter festively decorated for a sleeping child's Christmas, Ilford, Essex, 14th December 1940.
British citizens take shelter in an underground tube station during the Blitz phase of the Battle of Britain, in which London was bombed every night...
Workmen putting the finishing touches to an old tube station which has been converted into an air raid shelter holding 2,000 people. It has...
People sheltering in a tube train and on the platform at Piccadilly Tube Station, London, during an air raid.
Passengers are boarding a bus at the Lybidska metro station in Kyiv, Ukraine, on December 12 as additional buses and trolleybuses are in operation...
Concrete air raid shelter being constructed in Saville Place, Newcastle, to protect the public from air attacks. September 1939.
Womens Voluntary Service serve tea and sandwiches to people sheltering from German bombing raids at the Liverpool Street underground air raid...
Pictured is the Anderson shelter which saved four people when a bomb made the crater in the background during the previous nights air raid over the...
Wartime preparations at the Dental Hospital in Newcastle when students took part in a very different kind of drill - filling sandbags in case of air...
An evacuation exit is part of an air raid shelter set up by volunteers in an old shelter built after WWII in Shevchenko Park, Odesa, southern Ukraine.
Woman in black chador sits on sandbags piled up for air raid shelter, 11th May 1988. Towards the end of the eight year-long Iran-Iraq war, Iraq was...
Charred child's body is recovered by rescue workers from a building in Amiriya district, a residential area on Baghdad's western outskirts, after an...
Victims' bodies of an Allied bombing on an air raid shelter bombed by US bombers are recovered by rescue workers from a building in Amiriya district,...
Air raid shelter in kibbutz Revivim in the Negev desert. In southern Israel. The community was formed in 1943 as one of the three lookouts. And was...
