Bomb damage close to St Paul's Cathedral 1942 George William Joy The buildings on the right

The buildings on the right were demolished to make way for Victoria Tower Gardens in the early 20th century

Scenes on the road

the City Corporation instructed its architect

George Davison Reid photographed this view towards Coventry Street from Piccadilly Circus

Though his plan was never built

Bomb damage close to St Paul's Cathedral 1942 George William Joy The buildings on the rightPeople in the City go about their daily lives surrounded by the wrecks of bomb damaged buildings surrounding St Paul's Cathedral. By the end of May 1941, over 43,000 civilians, half of them in London, had been killed by bombing and more than a million houses destroyed or damaged in London alone.