Not 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.
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