Maybe it's talk of 'The Blitz Spirit'
reawakened by the coronvirus pandemic that has prompted me to see echos of
wartime stiff upper lippery in the latest batch of scans from my
archive.
In the mid 1970s memory of the Second
World War was still strong, and in some of the photographs I took
around that time, of pensioners' lunch clubs and other community
support groups in North Paddington, there is an unmistakable military
bearing to many of the men, neatly turned out in jacket, collar and
tie.
And it was not just the men. These
shots are from a Women's Voluntary Service lunch club on the Harrow
Road, where the aprons worn by the staff still had WVS Civil Defence
badges sewn into them. More photos from North Paddington in the
1970s here.
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