Missing Buildings: The Scars Left On London By The Blitz

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Missing Buildings: The Scars Left On London By The Blitz

 

Photographers Thom and Beth Atkinson have created a series of images showing sites across London where traces of second world war bomb damage are still visible over 75 years later.

 

 

Described by the pair as "a strange kind of archeology", the series reveals a mix of empty spaces and piecemeal development on sites bombed by Nazi Germany during the Blitz between 1940 and 1941.

 

The resulting photographs are presented in the book Missing Buildings, recently published by Hwæt Books. 

 

 

On 7 September 1940, the first bombs of the Blitz fell across London, killing 448 people. These intensive raids continued for just over eight months both in London and across the UK.

 

In London alone, almost 20,000 civilians died and up to one million homes were destroyed or seriously damaged – huge portions of the housing stock, including up to 80 per cent in the borough of Tower Hamlets.