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...week's end Their Majesties returned again to Buckingham to inspect the results of a third attack. This time the Queen's quarters were hit, when a heavy bomb smashed through her suite to the tapestry room on the first floor, used by the Queen as a drawing room. As the all-out attacks by the Luftwaffe went into their second week, the damage to the palace was estimated at over...
...ground like gophers popped the people after the raids, to cheer their batteries and count fires. High roofs were in demand, and in one building a porter conducted five-minute tours to the roof. Delayed-action bombs killed some of the curious. Down Piccadilly one afternoon strolled a civilian with a bomb he thought was a dud and was carrying as a present for his wife. Another Piccadilly stroller on a bright moonlit night wore a black jacket and a black Eden hat, carried an umbrella sedately over his head against the shrapnel shower...
London's animals lived as the people lived. Dogs & cats slept in shelters with their masters. Women rescued pups & kittens from bomb holes. A litter of rabbits was born in one hole, in the shadow of a delayed-action bomb. Many wild birds were killed. On one balcony were found a score of dead sparrows, huddled together with two mice in their midst...
Theatres were closed and cinemas shut at 9. Lights were off in many parts of London. Many places were without fuel. Food was served to the homeless by many volunteer organizations and nobody starved. The power plant of an East End meatpacking factory was bombed. Instead of letting five tons of meat spoil, the manager dumped it in a caldron, added vegetables, served stew to bombees. But an increasing number of London's poor had no shelter but bomb shelters...
Beyond either laughter or tears, and incredibly British, was a notice posted at a golf course outside London: Emergency Rule: Players may pick out of any bomb crater, dropping ball not nearer hole without penalty. Ground littered with debris may be treated as ground under repair...