The Blitz Club Covent Garden Jacob Knyff Rasheed Araeen

Rasheed Araeen

In the years leading up to and after the Second World War thousands of women left school at fourteen to work in the bustling factories of London's East End

a placard-holding protester and a pram-pushing mother

Looking South to crossing with Watling Street and St

Tales of adversity

The Blitz Club Covent Garden Jacob Knyff Rasheed AraeenGroup of young clubbers outside The Blitz club, Covent Garden. The Club is widely regarded as being the birth place of the New Romantics in the early 1980s and those who frequented it were known as 'Blitz Kids'. This included the founders Steve Strange and Boy George and Spandau Ballet amongst them. This photograph however, was made on the closing night of the Blitz in September 1981, by which time the more famous had moved on.