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Cartoon by Fougasse making light of the blackout imposed on Britain for almost 6 years to provide protection from night-time bombing raids. Writing of the blackout in September 1939 Lucy Awdry notes, 'it was not so difficult in the dark streets as we had feared as there were so many wardens and police about....at bus stops the conductor shouts the number of the bus - at crossings a policeman shows a red light.' The black out was finally ended in London mid-July 1945.From a series of albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, assorted ephemera and a diary, kept by Mrs Lucy Awdry of 14 Franconia Road, Clapham, for the duration of World War II and recording wartime life in London. During the war Mrs Awdry volunteered with the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) assisting with fire watch duties and also at the Clapham War Savings Centre. From the Lambeth Archives Home Front project 2005.

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Collection:	Home Front Project 2005
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Ref:	06832
Identifier:	IV 169 Vol.13
Date:	1943

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