Jimmy Anderson sent these images to How to be a Retronaut after watching a documentary about the London Blitz of WWII. Over to Jimmy :
“During the Blitz fire-fighter Leonard Rosomer was mentally very scarred from having seen the fire-fighter who had relieved him being crushed to death by a collapsing wall in Shoe Lane, just off Fleet Street in the City of London.
Rosomer took up painting as therapy and became a very highly-regarded war artist. His picture of the scene in Shoe Lane, “The Collapsing Wall” is in the Imperial War Museum.
Shoe Lane is exactly where I work and the scene in question sits directly outside the entrance to the Goldman Sachs staff canteen.”
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Thanks to Jimmy Anderson. Thank you also to Andy Jarosz and 501 Places.
Next time I’m down that way I’ll walk Shoe Lane and remember Leonard and the firefighters. Thanks Jimmy.