1939 Collection (page 7)

Some of the Militiamen from Birmingham and the Midlands arriving at Whittington barracks, Lichfield, this morning, to begin their six months training 15th July 1939 The Militiamen were the result of

Chatham Town Hall, Kent. 22nd June 1939

Militiamen in training at Oswestry camp. 27th July 1939 The Militiamen were the result of The Military Training Act 1939 which was an Act of Parliament passed by the Conservative administration on 26

Militiamen in training 27th July 1939 On parade at Oswestry camp.in the background are several classes on different types of anti-aircraft gun

Militiamen under going training with a Bren light machine gun at the South Staffordshire Regiment training Depot. 15th September 1939 The Militiamen were the result of The Military Training Act 1939

Militiamen reporting for training at the South Staffordshire Regiment Training Depot seen here being issued with their uniforms

Evacuees during World War Two. 26th August 1939

Camouflage at work at a cinema in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. 9th October 1939

Headmaster of St Michaels Church School, Buckingham Palace Road, giving children last minute instructions for tomorrows evacuation. 3rd September 1939

Dudley Road, Birmingham ARP Service parade after an exercise. September 1939 In 1935 the Home Office announced that local authorities would be responsible for drawing up plans for public protection

Ambulance men, ARP wardens and members of the public taking part in a air raid exercise at Dudley Road, Birmingham. September 1939 In 1935 the Home Office announced that local authorities would be

Council workmen constructing a public air raid shelter outside Lloyds Bank in Church Road, Birmingham on the eve of the outbreak of the Second Word War. 1st September 1939

Workmen complete the sandbagging of Birminghams Magistrates Court on Corporation Street in the week following the outbreak of the Second World War. 12th September 1939

A council workman surveys the sandbag protection at an un-named school in the West Midlands. Circa September 1939

A sound locator crew working with a Search Light unit during an air raid exercise in the West Midlands.. Such methods, as well as the Observation Corps

Schoolboys from Yardley Primary School help council workmen fill sandbags just prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. 1St September 1939

Birmingham University students and workmen from the City Council seen here filing sandbags in a pit near the University, for the protection of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital on the eve of the outbreak

The Out Patients Department of Birminghams Queen Elizabeth Hospital sandbagged in preparation for the outbreak of the Second World World. 1st September 1939

Registering for Military Training 3rd June 1939. Six thousand five hundred young men presented themselves at employment exchanges in the Greater Birmingham area on Saturday afternoon

Army spotter taking part in a searchlight exercise in the West Midlands involving the Army and the RAF just prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. 8th August 1939

Birmingham City Council workmen seen here filling and sandbagging the Citys Education Office in Margaret Street in the city centre a few days before the outbreak of the Second World War

Birmingham council workmen construct an emergency water container in the city centre on the eve of the outbreak of the second world war. 1st September 1939

Searchlight exercise in the West Midlands involving the Army and the RAF just prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. 8th August 1939

Many hands make light work... Said these girls from C and A
Many hands make light work...Said these girls from C and A. When they cheerfully joined in sandbag filling in Birmingham City Centre on the eve of the outbreak of the Second World War

Evening Gown September 1939

Old People - Poverty Nun helping out - pouring a drink

Attacking aircraft with a Bren gun somewhere in England. 30th September 1939

Tennis rackets being strung at the Birmingham factory of Messers Clapshaw and Cleave Limited. 26th May 1939

Solders of the British Expeditionary Force billeted in a French barn as they get some rest for the evening in Northern France. October 1939

Children of Bengel Street holding hands as they walk up the terraced street from school during the Second World War. Circa 1939

Anxious parents scan the large crowd of pupils of the Sacred Heart School in Liverpool, desperate to catch one last glimpse of their children as they march to Edge Hill railway station for their

Teachers accompany a large crowd of pupils of a liverpool inner city school to the railway station for their evacuation at the start of the Second World War. 1st September 1939

Richard Dimbleby sails to cover a Canadian Royal tour. 1939

Lord and Lady Halifax seen here visiting a communal kitchen. Circa 1939

A woman picking fruit in Greenhouse Circa 1939

Anti Aircraft gun crew seen here in a demonstration just prior to the outbreak of war September 1939

Gas masks being issued at Upton School. 27th August 1939

Children filling sandbags in Paignton in September 1939, at the start of the " Phoney War" as it became known

Demonstrating a gas mask on a patient in hospital in the early years of the Second World War. Circa September 1939

Queen Mary visits patient Ray Chard at Bristol Childrens Hospital 1939

Gas mask test at the start of the second world war, Bristol Circa September 1939

A demonstration of a barrage balloon being inflated on the Downs in 1939. Bristol as the country prepares for war

Bristolians in 1939 seen here being issued with gas masks in the build up to the Second World War. By September 1939 some 38 million gas masks had been given out to the civil population

Cyclist negotiate a busy Bristol Tramway Centre June 1939

1939 - just at the outbreak of war - shows Royal Naval reservists undergoing gunnery practice on board HMS Flying Fox at Mardyke Wharf

Dr Chaim Weizmann addresses the closing session of the Zionist Federation meeting at Kingsway Hall, London. 17th May 1939

Mirror Cameraman George Greenwell Circa 1939

Headed by a propaganda "coffin"delegates to the National Unemployed Workers
Headed by a propaganda " coffin" delegates to the National Unemployed Workers Movement (NUWM), who were in conference at Blackpool march through the streets of Blackpool. 28th January 1939

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