Images Dated 12th July 2021 (#99)

A lone firefighter has a huge task trying to put out a forest fire blaze

The little girl polishes up a piece of history. The ancient cannon on which 10 year old Joan Elliott is working, watched by her dog Sport is on of four which newcastle Corporation wants to restore to

Mrs. Connor of The Black Horse Inn, Barlow, County Durham with the chess set that is very popular in their pub

Fireman Jack Bruce takes his hat off to the five fire engines which have given sterling service for the last 20 year - but are now being sold for scrap metal

Children concentrating on their chess boards and each other at chess club

The fire float at South Shields which was damaged during the recent heavy gales

Fire floats lay alongside the quay to fight the blaze from the Newcastle riverside, as smoke and fumes pour up

This gypsy caravan party leaves Newcastle on the first stage of a seven day journey to St. Boswells

Chelsea Pensioners Stanley Bainbridge from Stockton-on-Tees, and Pensioner Thomas Frederick Hunter who comes from Middlesbrough beside one of the old cannons at the Chelsea Royal Hospital

One of British Wateways two berth boat "Water Baby"cabin cruisers on a canal
One of British Wateways two berth boat " Water Baby" cabin cruisers on a canal

Breakfast in a comfortable caravan on a well appointed site starts the holday day for thousands

Four smiling Northumberland police officers with their Duke of Edinbrugh Gold Awards (left to right) Jeff Cowey, Neil Preshouse, Ellis Brown and Brian Welsh

Gypsies parked on an illegal site at Lemington, Newcastle

Mrs. Bella Pyle cleaning the steps at Stanleys Pavilion Cinema which has been empty for the past six years. For a couple of hours each week Bella religously scrubs the marble steps leading to

Ex sweep Tony Graham with memories of busy days and lucky days when brides were glad of a good luck kiss from a " man in black"

The kitchens of a staff canteen

One of the last chimney sweeps in an around Alnwick Mr. Norman Steele who is retiring because there are not enough houses with coal fires

These cleaners from Northumberland County Council have just found out they don t have to work Saturdays anymore and will receive a lump sum of £ 185.00 each in compensation from the loss of

Lending a hand on the land"at the Blunham, Bedfordshire
Lending a hand on the land" at the Blunham, Bedfordshire, volunteer agricultural camp where war workers and students are spending their Easter holidays helping on the land

1950 Annual London to Brighton Car Rally. This years entry includes 56 different makes, al manufactured between 1895 & 1904. Competitors and spectators pictured along the Brighton Road

Royal Navy sailor A Ryder enjoys his time on leave as he spends the day with his two sons Johnny and Michael playing on the beach. 9th August 1942

Mrs Wells of Leigh On Sea greets her husband with a kiss at the railway station after nearly four years without seeing him. He is on Christmas leave from service in the East. 2nd December 1944

A Home Guard Sergeant giving women instructions on holding rifles during a drill. 4th November 1941

Sir Percy Sillitoe 9th July 1952 Chief of M15 pictured leaving the Old Bailey in London

Policeman in short sleeves helmet frantically trying to move a giant rock in the wreckage of an LCC Central school in the London suburbs following a daylight attack by rooftop German raiders

A nurse of Pimlico Day nursery takes the children out for a walk, keeping them on a rope for their safety whilst in the busy London streets during the Second World War. 5th July 1943

Hornsey Borough Council workers bringing in burners and clocks into their worskhop to add to the collection of the hundreds of street gas lamps which are being maintained and overhauled

Anti aircraft spotters and gunners of the Britsh Army on the look out for enemy aircraft during the Second World War. 24th May 1940

Home guards listen to their instructions before going out on patrol during the Second World War. 11th July 1941

Rolls Royce Merlin engines being made at a factory in the Northwest of England. The Merlin engines will be used for many of the RAF bombers and fighter aircraft

Members of the RAF get a preview of their "demob"civvy clothing
Members of the RAF get a preview of their " demob" civvy clothing, ready for them at RAF Station in Kirkhaw near Preston, Lancashire. 18th June 1945

Men of the Local Defence Volunteers, before the name was changed to the Home Guard. 26th May 1940

Private Ted Saunders of the 2nd Army out shopping with his wife Margaret in Bermondsey while on leave during the Second World War. 7th January 1945

Mr Dick Delamere of London, who lived in St Helier on the Channel Island of Jersey during the occupation by Nazi forces, attending to his tobacco plant in his backyard on washing day as his wife

72 year old parashooter Pat Mahon, a local Defence Volunteer, holding a rifle over his shoulder during an invasion exercise in the Second World War. 3rd July 1940

Girls of the WaFs with the theodolite and balloon for meterological observation at an RAF Bomber Station. 25th September 1942

Paddy Hopkirk arrives back in the UK after winning the 1964 Monte Carlo Rally in a Mini Cooper S. He is pictured with B.U.A Air Hostesses Eileen Hall & Pat Bilton as they present him with a model

Village milkman George Wake doing his daily rounds in the Yorkshire Dales with his four and a half gallon milk can strapped to his back. 8th August 1944

Children watch an open air cinema performance of Ralph Readers "Gang Show"
Children watch an open air cinema performance of Ralph Readers " Gang Show" in Deptford Park at the end of the Second World War. 25th July 1945

A "No Coupon"sale taking place in a bombed out shop in Oxford Street
A " No Coupon" sale taking place in a bombed out shop in Oxford Street, London during the Second World War. 26th June 1941

Soldiers of the 8th Manchester Regiment at Ardwick Green working together to clear the debris from their barracks and to release their trapped comrades after a German air raid

Members of the Home Guard running through a training exercise in a residential street in Newcastle as residents gathered at the bottom of the road look on. 6th April 1942

Young children sitting on the doorstep of one of their homes Doris Street, London, following an attack by German bombers. 28th April 1943

Women attending a National Fire Service Fitness training course for instructors at Number 12 Regional reserve Training Station in Tandridge, Surrey, stop for a welcome tea break. 24th May 1944

A land army girl in Sussex sitting on top of her Hitler snowman during the Second World War. 14th January 1942

Two heavily laden soldiers of the British Army, Sergeants Lester (left) and Jarvis, arrive home in happy mood from the Middle East during the Second World War. 7th January 1944

Conscientious objector Sidney Spencer on his way to plead his case at Liverpool tribunal. 25th March 1941

A factory worker tipping a huge cauldron of boiling jam, ready to be packed into jars at the Maidenhead Jam factoy during the Second World War. 28th October 1943

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