Wartime in the Strand  ot
a wartime picture: in July 1968 a film crew spent a couple of days at Aldwych
Underground station, in the Strand just opposite Bush House, filming for the
film The Battle of Britain (1969). (A couple of
BBC engineers played a recording of an air raid siren out of a window just to
confuse them.)You can see where windows have been covered with the brown paper sticky tape used to prevent flying glass in a bombing raid: and there are sandbags just visible on the left. The zebra crossing was covered for the filming (prewar crossings had beacons but no stripes). Though they also filmed a few shots in the underground station itself, the work above ground produced one shot, lasting about a second, panning as a fire engine drives past - you can't really see the station and the set dressing at all. Click here to see a large version of the photo. Posted: Mon - April 9, 2007 at 09:22 AM by Roger Wilmut |
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