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ELLERSLIE SQUARE, BRIXTON: WORLD WAR II INCIDENT

ELLERSLIE SQUARE, BRIXTON: WORLD WAR II INCIDENT

Flying bomb incident at Ellerslie Square, Brixton, showing damage to the Sunlight Laundry and the remains of an Anderson shelter in the foreground. Dated 24th June 1944. This branch of the laundry opened in 1937 and employed 400 staff laundering 200,000 articles each week.
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Collection:Civil Defence
Image type:Photograph
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Ref:00176
Identifier:C.D.Vol.1.p23
Date:1944

#1926 - 1950  #ARCHITECTURE / BUILDINGS  #BRIXTON  #Civil Defence  #COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY  #Photograph  #SHOPS AND SHOPPING  #TRADE  #WAR AND ARMED FORCES