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BABY OUTSIDE A WARTIME PREFAB: BRIXTON NORTH

BABY OUTSIDE A WARTIME PREFAB: BRIXTON NORTH

Sandra Victoria Lark in a play-pen outside prefabricated Nissen huts in Brixton North. The Lark's were allocated a prefab in Loughborough Gardens built by American engineers in 1944 as temporary accommodation for bombed-out families. Sandra was born on the eve of VE Day at St James's Hospital, where the nurses insisted that she was to be called Victoria.Digital image by kind permission of Sandra Clark. From the Lambeth Archives Home Front project 2005.
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Collection:Home Front Project 2005
Image type:Photograph
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Ref:06792
Identifier:SPd4066/12
Date:c.1945

#1926 - 1950  #BRIXTON NORTH  #Home Front Project 2005  #HOUSING  #People  #Photograph