Kenneth Allsop narrates a short piece on the London Blitz, before Fyfe Robertson interviews a number of children in Stepney, in London's east end, about what they believe the Blitz was like. Children growing up in a very different world draw impressions of what an air raid must have been like for their parents. Clip taken from Tonight, originally broadcast on BBC Television, Wednesday 9 May, 1962. You have now entered the BBC Archive, a time machine that will transport you back to the golden age of TV to educate, entertain and enlighten you with classic clips from the BBC vaults. Make sure you subscribe so that you never miss a single stop on our amazing journey through the BBC Archive -
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