'Happy Nights for Babies in St Martins Crypt', 3 October 1940

Photograph, World War Two, Home Front (1939-1945), 1940.

Vivien Langdale aged six months (left) and Sylvia Segal aged six months are tucked in for the night by a woman helper at St Martin-in-the-Fields church, Trafalgar Square, London. During the war the crypt was used as a public air raid shelter. The church also housed a canteen for members of the armed forces.

One of 58 official photographs depicting scenes from the British Home Front and the Blitz, 1940-1941.