3-023-075 - British Pathe Ltd/Heritage Images

A Bus Driving Across a Wooden Bridge, London, 1940. Britain during the Second World War: the Blitz. A bus continues to run on its route to Pimlico using a temporary bridge over bomb damage. 'Any night, any time, summer 1940. Fire and flame, death and destruction...Any morning-after in London - or is it Coventry, Bristol, Portsmouth? Liverpool, Belfast, Birmingham? Plymouth or Glasgow?...Yet with each dawn's fresh havoc, wonderful how habit survives. It's hard to kill the regular life of a great city, hard to kill the habit of off-to-work-in-the-morning. But what unfamiliarity to be found on your too-familiar journey. Holes where there were no holes yesterday, no houses where yesterday's houses'. From "Time To Remember - Standing Alone", 1940 (Reel 4); documentary film about events of later months of 1940.