Then and Now

WW2

Photographs from the Second World War, 1939 to 1945, set beside the same places as they look today.

Black-and-white 1941 photo of village children watching soldiers beside a Matilda II tank of 44th Royal Tank Regiment stopped in the street at Findon, West Sussex
1941

Findon, West Sussex, 1941

Children watch activity around a Matilda Mk II tank of 44th Royal Tank Regiment in Findon, Sussex, during exercises against ‘enemy’ parachute troops, 4 March 1941.