Bomb damage close to St Paul's Cathedral 1942 George William Joy His pocket is being picked

His pocket is being picked by an opportunistic young thief

the City Corporation instructed its architect

too big to fit down the Thames

Scenes on the road

Originally the tower of London was a simple timber and earth enclosure in the south-east angle and formed by the joining of the original east and south stone walls of the old Roman town of Londinium Augusta

Bomb damage close to St Paul's Cathedral 1942 George William Joy His pocket is being pickedPeople 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.