The St James' Lyre. The Non-Official Organ of Post No. 5 ARP, City of Westminster, and for the Air Raid Shelters within its Area. Edited by "Pluto". To be published weekly during the bombing season. [and slightly variant titles]. The Profit from this News-sheet will be given to a Bomber Fund. Volumes I and 2, numbers 1-24.

Edité par London: Post No. 5, A. R. P., Cleveland Yard, St. James' S. W. 1, 1 October, 1940 - 30 April 1941.

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Inevitably sole edition of this evocative Home Front journal by and for the crews of a London A. R. P. (Air Raid Precautions) post as a local morale booster and fund raiser. Numbered 31 of an unknown limitation, only the Imperial War Museum lists a set, theirs complete in 36 issues through to May 1942. A scarce resource, offering genuine insights into London's, uncensored, mood under the Blitz. This is a typical wartime mix, carrying harrowing reports of the impact of war, "Calvary in St James'. almost half Jermyn Street was a shambles"; facetious humour, "Is it only a rumour that the favourite drink of the Italian Navy is port?"; local notes, "the oldest lamp post in London. now, unfortunately, it has suffered at the hand of the Vandal. destroyed"; some dubious recipes, "half a pint of Churchill sauce"; occasional reports from "other parts of the field"; appeals for volunteers; incitements to "carry on!"; all alongside not infrequent moments of genuinely moving introspection; "Piccadilly during the People's War (at 9 p.m.). Traffic lights flashing monotonously green - yellow - red. The noticeable ticking of the automatic lights' machinery. An occasional taxi and car. A rare bus. Perhaps fifty persons in Piccadilly Circus. The Statue of Eros boarded up and protected by rotting sandbags. The hot blast of exhausted air from the underground exits. The rush of fire-engines towards fire. The pleasing gap where the 'Fifty Shilling Tailors' had their shop. The stark picture of the blackened ruins of St James' church opposite. The whispered appeals of 'Hello darling' from mysterious female forms. The whizzing of shrapnel on the street. The criss-cross of searchlight beams in the heavens. Not a single newsboy. A solitary cat crossing the street". Circulation rose rapidly, issue 5 claiming 2,000 copies, and the following number proclaiming five times that, "Last week's issue was completely sold out. Although we keep on printing more and more copies we are quite unable to meet the demand. We claim the BIGGEST SALES of any Blitzkrieg News-sheet in Britain. Copies are being sent as historic mementoes to every part of the world". A "Final Notice" in issue 24 notes that there are for sale "a few bound volumes containing the first 24 issues at Six Guineas ($30)", maybe about £1,000 today in real terms. All moneys raised from the Lyre went to the local St James' Bomber Fund, "costs of production are borne privately". Folio. pp. 80 spirit-duplicated text in all on variously coloured paper stock. Original three-quarter - spine and fore-edges - greyish yellow buckram, spine lettered longitudinally in black, attractive matte black patterned paper boards, golden stars on a wavy grid pattern. Pictorial masthead. Just a little rubbed and soiled, endpapers slightly toned; text with occasional spots of foxing, but overall clean and sound, very good. …

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The St James' Lyre. The Non-Official Organ of Post No. 5 ARP, City of Westminster, and for the Air Raid Shelters within its Area. Edited by "Pluto". To be published weekly during the bombing season. [and slightly variant titles]. The Profit from this News-sheet will be given to a Bomber Fund. Volumes I and 2, numbers 1-24.
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WORLD WAR II - THE BLITZ.
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London: Post No. 5, A. R. P., Cleveland Yard, St. James' S. W. 1, 1 October, 1940 - 30 April 1941.
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