London was heavily bombed by the Germans in WWII and many residential streets were hit and homes destroyed. Most of this rubble has long been swept up and rebuilt on but if you walk around town a lot (as I do these days) every now and again you come across traces of those lost lives.
In Vincent St., behind Millbank at the Vincent Square end of the street is a wall next to a drive way, it's an ordinary looking wall but if you look closely there's an old fireplace in it. Clearly it used to be the inside wall of someone's house and a WWII bomb site, makes me wonder what the original house looked like and what happened to the people that used to live there? I also wonder how long it will be before another layer of history is placed on top of this reminant and how many hidden layers there are under it..
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