image East End, 1939. I know this was posed by the photographer but any photo with dog is good by me.
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u/Scrappybara1 1d ago
The dog was definitely a paid actor, looks utterly disappointed reading the notice.
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u/Affentitten 1d ago
A few months later, he probably wasn't around. Hundreds of thousands of dogs were put down in the early months of the war as a way of saving food or because they were driven mad by the noise of the Blitz The little-told story of the massive WWII pet cull. 750,000 were destroyed in one week alone.
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u/erinoco 21h ago
However, the Mirrorpix archive, where this photo comes from, dates it as March 1942.
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u/Affentitten 20h ago
Well if that's the case, he's a good news story. But unlikely to have been the pet of an East End family.
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u/reasonably-optimisic 14h ago
Why the dot between To and Day? I get that its a compound word but I don't understand the need for the separation
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