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Thanks for posting this, puts our 21st century concerns into perspective. I see from the Metropolitan Police Gallantry Awards 1939 - 1945( http://www.historybytheyard.co.uk/gallantry_list_1939-1945.htm ) Constable Whitmore was awarded the recommended George Medal.

"The Gallantry Awards list for 1939 (link posted by nxjen above) also includes details of a 13-hour armed siege in Barry Road, for the resolution of which three policemen received awards."


I remember ComputedShorty's description of this fatal incident a while ago. Come to think of it where is he ? I miss his informative posts.

"Kings Arms" = pub formerly on site of what was known later as Kings on the Rye, MP. (now flats - with a bus stop bearing the KotR name)


This is an 1862 map showing the pub at that junction.

http://www.mappalondon.com/london/south-east/peckham-rye.jpg


(From http://www.mappalondon.com/london/south-east/map-london.htm)

Loz Wrote:

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> steveo Wrote:

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> > Heroes. It was nice of the Luftwaffe to drop

> > incendiaries on them while they were doing the

> rescue

>

> I'm sure similar stories could be found in

> Dresden.



Cock.

Laur Wrote:

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> Great photo, I too can remember the Kings Arms - I

> think it was possibly in the 1980s/ 1990s -

> popular pub and club whereby drinkers would travel

> from outside the area to visit. There was a sea

> fish/cockle stall outside if my memory serves me

> right.



Yeah that rings bells from my childhood. Think it was definitely "Kings on the Rye" by the early 90s and naybe earlier.

intexasatthe moment Wrote:

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> ed thank you .

> Do you happen to have the key to the different

> colours used for buildings on the map ?


Refer to the second attachment to edhistory's post - BombDamageMapLegend.jpg

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