
DURING THE BLITZ of World War II (1939-45), many Londoners sought refuge in the Underground, even staying there overnight. The artist Henry Moore witnessed this and began making a series of sketches recording these scenes from the stations and platforms of the ‘tube’. As he said: ‘the scenes of the shelter world, static figures asleep — reclining figures — remained vivid in my mind, I felt somehow drawn to it all. Here was something I couldn’t help doing’.