The Blitz Club Covent Garden Jacob Knyff A policeman directs traffic standing

A policeman directs traffic standing in the middle of New Oxford Street

For a charge of one shilling

By the end of May 1941

In the years leading up to and after the Second World War thousands of women left school at fourteen to work in the bustling factories of London's East End

carriages and carts crossing London Bridge

The Blitz Club Covent Garden Jacob Knyff A policeman directs traffic standingGroup of young clubbers outside The Blitz club, Covent Garden. The Club is widely regarded as being the birth place of the New Romantics in the early 1980s and those who frequented it were known as 'Blitz Kids'. This included the founders Steve Strange and Boy George and Spandau Ballet amongst them. This photograph however, was made on the closing night of the Blitz in September 1981, by which time the more famous had moved on.