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Civil Defence Corps Members Drinking Tea, 1940. Britain during the Second World War: the Blitz. '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?...Good morning, toilers of the night, time you were in bed - you've earned it'. From "Time To Remember - Standing Alone", 1940 (Reel 4); documentary film about events of later months of 1940.