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Love Among the Ruins: Happy Blitz Weddings in London, 1940 _s2uk

Not much would keep the Londoners down…

Ena Squire-Brown, an international dancer famed for her Dove Dance, leaves her recently bombed home for St George’s Church in Forest Hill, to marry Royal Air Force flying officer J.C. Martin in 1940.
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The wedding of officer J.C. Martin and Edna Squire Brown, in a bombed out building, November 5, 1940.

 

The wedding of Arthur Oxford and Georgina Wright, of nearby Barking Road, in St. Barts PS.

 

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Helen Fowler, 20 of Caledon Road, East Ham and her Canadian soldier sweetheart, Cpl. Christopher Morrison, aged 21 of the 48th Highlanders stood proudly amid the ruins of the bombed-out church and made their wedding vows.

 

Wedding Ceremony of Fusilier Tom Dowling and Miss Martha Coogan in a bombed out London Catholic church. September 14, 1940.

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