Mother placing a baby’s gas mask over the head of her infant child, with an Anderson garden shelter behind. Local authorities drew up plans for the issue of the masks in August 1939 as part of the preparation for war by the emergency services.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.Ref: IV\/169\/Vol.V<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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