A Bus Driving Across a Wooden Bridge, London, 1940. Britain during the Second World War: the Blitz. The number 14 bus continues to run on its route using a temporary bridge over bomb damage. 'Any night, any time, summer 1940. Fire and flame, death and morning-after in with each dawn's fresh havoc, wonderful how habit survives. It's hard to kill the regular life of a great city, hard to kill the habit of off-to-work-in-the-morning. But what unfamiliarity to be found on your too-familiar journey. Holes where there were no holes yesterday, no houses where yesterday'
A Bus Driving Across a Wooden Bridge, London, 1940. Britain during the Second World War: the Blitz. The number 14 bus continues to run on its route using a temporary bridge over bomb damage. 'Any night, any time, summer 1940. Fire and flame, death and morning-after in with each dawn's fresh havoc, wonderful how habit survives. It's hard to kill the regular life of a great city, hard to kill the habit of off-to-work-in-the-morning. But what unfamiliarity to be found on your too-familiar journey. Holes where there were no holes yesterday, no houses where yesterday's houses'. From "Time To Remember - Standing Alone", 1940 (Reel 4); documentary film about events of later months of 1940.
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