Re: Innocence/nostalgia on film


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Posted by Peter Ceresole on January 26, 2014 at 01:24:10 user PeterC.

In Reply to: Innocence/nostalgia on film posted by Roger Wardale on January 25, 2014 at 10:58:43:

'The Salvage Gang' shows London, still carrying the scars of the blitz in 1958

It certainly did. I remember the spoil heaps from digging the deep shelters on Clapham Common, being removed very late. The entrances are still there on the South Side, where it's crossed by the South Circular Road; very distinctive circular entrance buildings. Another lot, much taller, at the South East corner, on the corner with Clapham Park Road, near Clapham Common underground station, behind a large hoarding but easily visible from the road. All easily seen on Google Street View. Eyesores if that's the way you feel; for me, reminders of recent history.
Those deep shelters were used in 1948 to house arrivals from the West Indies on the 'Empire Windrush', because of the acute housing shortage of the time.
The most classic example is the Eisenhower documentation centre in Goodge Street, but unlike the Clapham examples that's been cleaned up in white with red striping.


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