The Blitz in London evokes all sorts of emotions – destroyed homes and lives, spine-tingling air raid sirens, the plucky ‘spirit of the Blitz’ to name but a few. For months on end, London withstood relentless nights of bombing, and continued to be targeted by aerial attacks well beyond 1941. A special exhibition of vintage photos aims to reignite memories of this period – iconic survivors like St Paul’s surrounded by smoke, homes turned to rubble, Londoners sharing shelter underground, or carrying out their day-to-day clad in gas masks. With many of these photos having been used by the press at the time, they are more than art but also pieces of history themselves.

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