<i>A woman cooks a meal over a Primus stove in a public air raid shelter under railway arches in South East London, 1940.</i><br>
A woman cooks a meal in a frying pan over a Primus stove whilst other shelterers look on in this shelter under the railway arches, somewhere in South East London.  Many items of clothing and other personal possessions, including hats and gas mask boxes, have been hung on nails along the whitewashed walls of the shelter.  This photograph was probably taken in November 1940.
Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer
1940
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