Mitre Bridge, Scrubs Lane, NW10 (1941)


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Mitre Bridge, Scrubs Lane, NW10 (1941)

This is a curious photograph in many ways. It's 1941 but the truck has unmasked headlights, which you'd normally expect to see. The trolleybus doesn't have anti-blast netting on its windows and neither does it have the large white disc painted on the rear of the vehicle that was normally placed there to aid visibility in the blackout. The black and white stripes on the kerb look very freshly painted and the sentry is wearing civilian clothes, but if he is a Home Guardsman, by 1941 we'd expect him to be in uniform.


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