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Images by Theme: World War Two

A selection of images based on the theme of World War Two and showing evidence of defences and the effects of bombing. Check out our Teaching Activity WWII: Life during the Blitz

Anti-Aircraft Battery near Coventry, West Midlands

Anti-aircraft battery, Trimley St Mary, Suffolk

Bomb damage at Great Charlotte Street, Liverpool

Bomb Damage, Exeter, Devon

Gun mounts at Beacon Hillfort, Harwich, Essex

Lockyer Street, Plymouth

Millbay Road, Plymouth

Operating theatre beneath Dover Castle, Dover, Kent

Pillbox on the River Thames, near Lechlade, Gloucestershire

Princes Square, Plymouth

Prisoner of War Camp, Low Harperley, Durham

Shivering Sands Maunsell Fort, Thames Estuary, Kent

St John the Evangelist, Red Lion Square, Camden, London

Sussex Terrace, Plymouth

Telephone exchange beneath Dover Castle, Dover, Kent

The General Steam Navigation Co, Deptford Creek, London

The library, Holland House, Kensington, London

World War II bomb damage, London

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