Bomb damage close to St Paul's Cathedral 1942 George William Joy offered Jerrold and Doré the

offered Jerrold and Doré the vast sum of £10

George Davison Reid photographed this view towards Coventry Street from Piccadilly Circus

the City Corporation instructed its architect

fighting and rioting against the forces gentrifying the capital

Shepherd's Bush

Bomb damage close to St Paul's Cathedral 1942 George William Joy offered Jerrold and Doré thePeople in the City go about their daily lives surrounded by the wrecks of bomb damaged buildings surrounding St Paul's Cathedral. By the end of May 1941, over 43,000 civilians, half of them in London, had been killed by bombing and more than a million houses destroyed or damaged in London alone.