Great piece. I went to the exhibition last week having seen you flag it somewhere. So thanks for that. Profoundly moving and I was knocked out by Blackout - very hard to capture it's deep murkiness in a photo. Have you read Julius Horwitz’ Can I Get There By Candlelight set in Soho during the blackout - blimey, the goings-on!

And totally agree about the long shadow of the war stretching to the likes of us, but little further. I guess the unwitting and underlying contention of my Heatwave book is that 1976 is when the war ended. Anyone under 10 years old at that time was effectively a non-combatant and thus less suited to the quasi-wartime roles of football hooligan, saloon bar mercenary etc, etc.