Long description

This is a black-and-white photograph taken in nineteen forty. It shows the ruins of Coventry Cathedral from the inside. The entire roof is missing and all of its windows have been broken. Piles of rubble have been moved to the sides of the space by the walls. In the centre, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, is walking towards the camera, guided by a policeman and a vicar, with several other suit-wearing men following behind him.