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was this area hit in the Blitz?

posted 14 years ago by skiddoo
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When Liberty says in ten years buskers wouldn't be permitted anymore I had to wonder if in ten years St. Martin's Lane would be digging out of a pile of rubble and end up totally rebuilt. Or was it one of the few neighborhoods that was lucky to have been pretty much missed by the bombs and fires?

This movie is good at showing a slice of preBlitz life. While it doesn't look too bad, the extreme poverty that was exposed by practically feral children, (many of them offspring of WWI refugees who never did find work and sank into despair), being evacuated to the countryside was so shocking it ushered in the social revolution.

[–] jacowium 12 years ago

Interesting question (which I wish I could answer) but a very thoughtful comment about being shown a slice of pre-blitz life in this fine movie. It's so easy to forget how harrowing the circumstances were for many, who deserved better, in those days. I'm not English in any way but it's hard not to be affected by the knowledge of what transpired there, only a handful of decades ago.

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