Sujet

The Barbican area of the City of London, World War II, 1942. Artists: Arthur Cross, Fred Tibbs

Légende

The Barbican area of the City of London, World War II, 1942. View showing the devastation following the demolition of unsafe buildings damaged by German bombing. Amongst the rubble people can be seen standing on the station platform waiting to catch a train.

Date

1942

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/London Metropolitan Archives

Notre référence

HRM19B04_054

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

50,0Mo (2,2Mo) / 40,5cm x 30,9cm / 4783 x 3653 (300dpi)

Mots clés

travel transport transportation city building buildings London England people waiting destruction religious country religion bridge British cathedral English railway damaged station ruins dome ruin Christianity passengers passenger cityscape war location debris rubble st pauls cathedral century city of london platform Britain destroyed traveller wartime concept ruined viaduct barbican B&W 1940s aerial view MONOCHROME warfare Forties bombed bird's eye view dais World War II World War two WWII bombing St Paul's Cathedral black & white black and white B W world war 2 20th century air raid Blitz St. Paul's Cathedral Guildhall Library & Art Gallery aerial warfare bomb damage decade Home Front Second World War TGN WW2 photograph 2nd World War Unknown débris Arthur Cross Cross Arthur Fred Tibbs Tibbs Fred