Life in tired, drab, shabby Britain

23rd December 1942: A journalist returns home and finds a country enduring the daily grind that had become the war on the Home Front

Bomb damage remained widespread in most of Britain’s cities and there had been new devastation in 1942. The aftermath of a 'Baedeker Raid', Canterbury, Kent, England, 1942. A general view of damage to St Augustine's Abbey and the surrounding area, following the devastating Baedeker raid on Canterbury.