Last week the artist and I sat in a slightly penned-off area of the park, one of the lungs of London, where concealed Second World War gun emplacements once awaited elements of the 1,500 German aircraft crossing the Channel daily. In this small south-east London neighbourhood, 1,396 high explosive bombs were dropped from 7th October 1940 to 6th June 1941 alone. These were 50kg and 250kg, sometimes 500kg, sometimes even 1,000kg, 1,400kg and 1,800kg bombs. Big brutes when not compared to the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Mind you, we were making plenty Germans homeless too. This is how war works. More

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