British children being evacuated from London, England during World War II as part of Operation Pied Piper. Boys and girls arriving at destination in the country away from London. Secondary school children walk in line with baggage in hand. They enter school yard in country. They get onto buses. Poster on the wall reads 'Cheap Day Return Tickets'. Children in London walk along the road bound for evacuation. Vehicles on the road. Girls in uniforms from Burlington School, Shepherd's Bush walking on sidewalks bound for underground tube station. Girls enter the Wood Lane underground tube station.
Operation Pied Piper footage: British children being evacuated from London, England during World War 2. Young children walk in line with bags, boxes, and some with water bottles. They are escorted by guards and civilian aides. Children walk along the road near Shepherd's Bush Place station. St. Clement's school children walking in a queue. They get onto escalators. Board reads 'Coffee Bar Open to All'. Some Boy Scouts in uniform are seen. Children drink at the improvised canteen. Children walk on the platform.
Sick and infirm civilians being evacuated from hospitals in London, England during World War II. Sick people lying on stretchers at a train platform. People watching. Men lift the stretchers and put them on trains. Activity at railway platform.
Activity outside University College Hospital (235 Euston Rd., London NW1 2BU, United Kingdom) in London, England during time of hospital evacuations in World War II. Sandbag wall around University College Hospital. Car parked along the road. Man walks along the sandbag wall. People walk in and out of the hospital. Notice of Westminster Abbey reads "Continuous Intercession for International Peace. The Unknown Warrior's Grave." Patients leaving the hospital. Nurse wheels empty wheelchair back into the hospital.
Workers make emergency airlock at St. Clement Dane's Grammar School in London, England during World War II. The School adapted as a gas decontamination depot. Workers knock out window blocks. Carpenters working with Hammersmith Hospital in the background. Workers chiseling out bricks. They plaster emergency airlock vent. Two school boys enter the room with evacuation kits in hand.
Workers place sandbags around Canterbury Cathedral (Cathedral House, 11 The Precincts, Canterbury CT1 2EH, United Kingdom) in Kent, England during World War II, as protection against enemy German bombing. Workers fill sandbags to place them around the Cathedral. They remove the famous stained-glass windows. The crowd watches them. Workers place sandbags in front of the windows.
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