British soldiers attacking the Hindenburg Line, World War I Finish:Stretched Plate 50 from Museum Leverianum

Plate 50 from Museum Leverianum containing select specimens from the museum of the late Sir Ashton Lever

'Interior of the west wing of Sir Thomas Pope's House in Bermondsey'

View of the remains of the sugar baking premises belonging to Severn

Ian Dury pictured in the street outside his house in Kennington

British soldiers attacking the Hindenburg Line, World War I Finish:Stretched Plate 50 from Museum LeverianumBritish soldiers attacking the Hindenburg Line, World War I, 1917 1918. Soldiers bombing Germans out of their deep dug out with grenades. The Hindenburg Line was a vast system of defences built on the Western Front by the Germans in the winter of 1916 1917. It extended from Lens in the north to beyond Verdun and was believed by the German High Command to be impregnable. In fact British and Newfoundland forces using tanks briefly broke through the line