An art installation that imagines the future lives of children killed by a World War 2 bomb will be revealed at the launch of a new initiative: ‘In Living Memory’, a people’s history of post-war Lewisham.
The launch event on 26 February 2022 will feature a video response to Francis Spufford’s Booker-longlisted novel Light Perpetual. The novel was inspired by a real V2 attack in 1944 that destroyed a busy Woolworths store and the video will play across the ceiling, walls and floor inside New Cross Learning, part of the building erected over the Woolworths bombsite.