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Mrs Gower with Graham, a Lambeth mother and child, photographed on an outing to Morecambe Bay during evacuation in the summer of 1944. Graham Gower recalls: 'The first flying bomb in Streatham landed on the old Empire Cinema... the blast caught the edge of our air raid shelter and blew the door off while we were inside. My mother immediately decided that we should be evacuated. With my mother I was taken to stay in a house in Lune Street, Lancaster. It was called the 'Mini-Evacuation' and we were away for only about 6 weeks'.Image by kind permission of Graham Gower. From the Lambeth Archives Home Front project 2005.

Details
Collection:	Home Front Project 2005
Image type:	Photograph
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Ref:	06160
Identifier:	SPd3033/2
Date:	1944

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