Killing time before rehearsal starts off Gower Street and simply leaning against the brick walls of the tube station makes the body shake a little with hub of people walking through the turnstiles.  The rush of the trains below is felt as a warm blast of air near the tunnels that lead upwards to the exit.  In the many blitzes of London the underground is where locals went to feel safe from the Nazi bombers overhead.  London was a relentless target for the Germans in WW2.  It’s hard to imagine the depth of relief people would have felt emerging safely into the street after the all clear was sounded clinging to these bricks that had kept the safe.  Alas from documentaries we see that many of the houses would have been levelled to the ground and no more than a pile of old bricks.  Incredible how spirits were stronger than houses and every one found a stiff upper lip and carried on.