Colour photos from the Blitz

[Hertsblue]

Colour is slightly iffy, as I suppose you'd expect after seventy years, but it certainly illustrates the devastation caused. Saddest of all would have been the fate of the 68 people killed at Balham, down in the south of London. They would have thought themselves safe down in the tube station. 

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

From memory Balham is one of the shallow stations - when the line had steam traction, which is why it was penetrated.

IanS

[nikharwood]

Fantastic pics Leon 

[sebastosfig]

Wow. I didn't know those pictures. Seeing the destructions in colour is more dramatic.

[howayman]

 colour pictures seem to make it very fresh, and people just kept on working through. a touch of snow or a minor road accident causes total chaos nowadays.