Thread: War Declared

Police hold back the crowds that have gathered outside Downing street on 3rd September 1939

This picture shows people running to the Air-Raid shelter after the first Air-Raid warning was sounded, which was soon after the Prime Minister declared War

War was declareed on Sunday 3rd September and on Monday 4th September there was a rush on the shipping companies as Americans, holidaying or living in Britain sought to book a passage home. Here crowds gather outside the U.S Line in Haymarket

On the same day that the mericans started leaving, the German Embassy in Carlton Terrace moved out.

Quite quickly messages of support for the decision to declare War on Germany appeared. This one was photographed in October 1939