A newspaper article illustrating the incendiary bombs that were dropped on Britain during the early years of the war, the firestorm that ensued after bombing raids became known in London as the ‘Blitz’. Many incendiary bombs failed to explode and had to be removed by Air Raid Wardens.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.3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A newspaper article illustrating the incendiary bombs that were dropped on Britain during the early years of the war, the firestorm that ensued after bombing raids became known in London as the ‘Blitz’. Many incendiary bombs failed to explode and had to be removed by Air Raid Wardens.From a series of albums containing newspaper and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,286,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1926-1950","category-awdry_collection","category-war-and-armed-forces"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n