Bomb damage close to St Paul's Cathedral 1942 George William Joy George Davison Reid photographed this

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

fighting and rioting against the forces gentrifying the capital

His pocket is being picked by an opportunistic young thief

the City Corporation instructed its architect

An arch and pier of the Old Battersea Bridge

Bomb damage close to St Paul's Cathedral 1942 George William Joy George Davison Reid photographed thisPeople 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.