In September 1945, people formed a bus queue in Kensington, London. The Australian War Memorial catalogue succinctly identifies the place, month and transport they were waiting to board.
Even immediately after the war, the city still had to move people to work, shops and visits. A bus-stop line is not a dramatic event, but it records peace returning as daily repetition. After a vast historical rupture, people needed the next service—and the ordinary predictability that their turn would come.
