Shelter

A mock-up in a glass case of people taking refuge in Hampstead underground station during the blitz of September 1939. At 192 feet the station is the deepest on the network and along with some of the other north London tube stations it was a magnet for people who sought to escape the bombs that were being dropped all over the city.

The sculptor Henry Moore made a number of drawings of these scenes which can found here. My parents were living only a couple of miles away at the time. After my mother was hit by flying debris and my father was fined for inadequate blackout coverage they made they fled for the hills. The rest is history, or at least explains how I came to be born in Wales.*
(I still have the blackout material.)

* When you go to Places above the new Browse page you are presented with a selection of geographical locations including several  cities in the USA, and London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dublin in the British Isles. Cardiff is not included. As a native of Wales I take this as a personal insult and additionally am inclined to suspect that the omission is connected with the Americanisation of the website. "Wales, England" is a mistake often made on the other side of the pond.