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• The Tube: October 1940

  (art) Made by: Topolski, Feliks 1940-10-01

  image: The interior of Leicester Square underground station with figures lying asleep on the floor of the station platform. There is a large man sitting smoking a pipe in the foreground, and several ARP wardens wearing helmets standing further down the...

• The City : A fallen lift shaft

  (art) Made by: Sutherland, Graham (OM) 1941

  image: bomb damaged buildings and twisted girders set against smoke and an evening sky.

• Post Office Buildings

  (art) Made by: Pitchforth, Roland Vivian (RA)

  image: a bomb site in the foreground with steel girders sticking up out of the rubble. In the background buildings remain standing, however men can be seen at work securing the building on the right.

• Two WAAF Balloon Workers

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1941

  image: two women of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) at work on large balloons. One of the women kneels down tying a knot, surrounded by numerous threads of fine rope, the other woman lying on her side looking on. They appear to be working inside...

• A Concert in a Shelter, St Pancras Borough

  (art) Made by: Lehmann, Olga 1941-01-25

  image: A view of a performer on an illuminated stage from behind a large audience in a long, low room.

• A Shelter in Camden Town under a Brewery : Christmas Eve, 1940

  (art) Made by: Lehmann, Olga 1940

  image: A view down a high, dark tunnel with a cart in the foreground. Along the side of the tunnel there are groups of figures huddled on the floor, each illuminated by a candle.

• An Impression of a Gas Cleansing Exercise at a First Aid Post : the contaminated undress

  (art) Made by: Mathews, Denis

  image: Two women stand back to back undressing, while a third sits on the floor leaning forward.

• 'Z' Rocket AA Battery in Action, 1941

  (art) Made by: Macleod, William Douglas

  image: numerous manned Z-rocket launchers are positioned over a flat landscape, all firing upward. Trails from the projectiles and the beams of the launchers searchlights illuminate the night sky.

• The Air Raid Shelter, Paulton's Square, Chelsea

  (art) Made by: Macdonald, Frances 1940-09-07

  image: A woman sitting in a shelter in a corridor with a ladder at one end. She sits on a bench with a blanket over her head. A bottle is placed next to her on the bench. Further along the bench are other figures, including a man in a hat, a woman with a...

• Ruins in Cripplegate, London, EC1

  (art) Made by: Strang, Ian 1944

  image: a staircase covered in rubble stands alone in a deserted, flattened bomb site. In the background there are some tall buildings standing amongst ruins.