What Became of the Cat Meat Man?

January 1941, and craters scarred the cobbled streets of Maze Hill like a beach scooped by toddlers’ artless hands. The tramway that carries bleary war workers to Woolwich was an abstracted mass of twisted metal. A few nights earlier, a Messerschmitt flew so low along the length of the Thames at Greenwich that its fuselage could be seen above: yellow with a black cross.