1940s Collection (page 6)

Scrattons Farm Estate, Ripple Road, Barking, Essex, after it was damaged in a World War Two air raid. The Smith sisters lived at this house

Liverpool. Merseyside. August 1941. During the Blitz. Picture shows the Old Street and Castle Street area of Liverpool, The National Bank Building with the Holt Building to the left

On the night of 29th - 30th April 1944, RAF Bombers attacked the Clermont Ferrand/Aulnat Airfield in German occupied France

Picture shows business premises in Weston Super Mare, Somerset, decimated in The Blitz. June 1942. Street is unknown. On the nights of June 28 and 29

Three weeks old Raymond Ratford, the youngest evacuee, photographed with the mother. The second convoy of London evacuees

Children at The Everard Avenue School, Walton, Liverpool, helping to relieve the shortage of clerks by filling in the names and addresses on the new ration books. Picture taken 8th June 1942

The R. E. M. E. - Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers is the British Army
The R.E.M.E. - Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers is the British Armys newest corps. It has been in operation since October 1st, 1942

Freddie Harrison, 6, and his sister Winifred, 3, whom he saved from the ruins of their home during the blitz. Circa 1941

Cottingham Road, Hull, Yorkshire, after it was bombed in the Blitz. November 1940. The Hull Blitz was the bombing campaign that targeted the English port city of Kingston upon Hull by the German

Newbridge Road, Hull, Yorkshire, after it was bombed in the Blitz. Firefighters at the scene of a horrendous bombing raid The Hull Blitz was the bombing campaign that targeted the English port city

Hull, Yorkshire, during The Blitz. Picture shows the devastation in Buckingham Street, Hull. The Hull Blitz was the bombing campaign that targeted the English port city of Kingston upon Hull by

The Battle of Taranto took place on the night of 11th and 12th November 1940 during the Second World War between British naval forces, under Admiral Andrew Cunningham, and Italian naval forces

A German B1E 1 KG Incendiary bomb. The bomb consisted of a cylindrical body, made of magnesium alloy, filled with thermite, an incendiary compound, to which a three-finned steel tail was attached

De La Pole Avenue in Hull, Yorkshire, during the blitz of World War Two. The emergency services search the rubble and crater lift by the bomb dropped by The Luftwaffe

Fountain Road in Hull, Yorkshire, during the blitz of World War Two. The emergency services, local people and the army search the rubble and crater lift by the bomb dropped by The Luftwaffe

St Athanasius School, Fonthill Road, Kirkdale, Liverpool, Merseyside, demolished in The Liverpool Blitz. The church next door however, escaped serious damage. Picture taken 8th October 1940

Men of the East Yorkshire Regiment during the Second World War. Circa 1940

Bomb-shattered homes in Grange Street, Hull. Circa 1941

Wreckage of SS Malakand, a cargo liner which was loaded with munitions at the Huskisson Dock in Liverpool, England, and on the evening of 3rd May 1941 during a heavy German air raid

V1 flying bomb attack, Aldwych, London, 30th June 1944. One of the deadliest attacks, 46 people were killed and at least 200 others suffered serious injuries

General Kinzel (German General of Infantry) puts his signature to the surrender of the German land, sea and air forces in Northern Germany, Holland and Denmark

Alexander Sutherland Neill (centre)seen here as a new term starts at Summer Hill School, back at Leiston, Suffolk after five years of evacuation at Ffestiniog in Wales

Alexander Sutherland Neill (3rd from the right) seen here as a new term starts at Summer Hill School, back at Leiston, Suffolk this week after five years of evacuation at Ffestiniog in Wales

Saxony Road, Kensington, Liverpool, bomb damage to rear entrance of working class pub in during recent air raid, pictured Wednesday 13th November 1940

Alan Wood, The Daily Express war correspondent with the 1st Airborne Division at Arnhem. Seen here typing out his copy for the paper from the safety of a trench. 20th September 1944

Ella Edwards with some baby chicks. 1940

The remains of an ammunition truck struck by a bomb in the goods yard of Bridlington Station 11th July 1940

Young girl riding her bicycle with pet dog in the basket on the front handlebars. Circa 1945

Unity Mitford arrives in Folkestone from Germany. Wrapped in blankets on the quatside, Unity was said to be injured, with a shot to the head. 3rd January 1940

A Sherman VC Firefly tank of 24th Lancers, 8th Armoured Brigade, near St Leger, 11 June 1944. The Sherman Firefly was based on the US M4 Sherman Tank but fitted with the powerful 3-inch calibre

Some of the workers in a section of the Bemrose printing works at Aintrees Long Lane. Liverpool, 16th January 1946

Angela Lansbury and Peter Shaw, who are in London for their wedding. 26th July 1949

A man dressed in victorian clothing, wearing a false beard and riding a penny-farthing as part of the Cambridge Goes Gay celebrations. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, June 1947

Men Preparing the hobby horse. The origin of the Minehead Hobby Horse Festival has been lost in history although its thought to have started as warding off evil Vikings or is a commemoration of

Robert Blair "Paddy"Mayne (Second from right) was born in Newtownards
Robert Blair " Paddy" Mayne (Second from right) was born in Newtownards, County Down, the second youngest of seven children

Prime Minister Winston Churchill in action as bricklayer. During a visit to an anti-aircraft battery the Prime Minister saw some soldiers bricklaying

27 Year old Eric Wildman has started a business by the name of Corpun Educational Supply. Co. In other words he supplies canes and birches to schools. 24th April 1947

27 Year old Eric A Wildman who has started a business by the name of " Corpun Educational Supply. Co. In other words he supplies canes abd birches to schools

Bomb damage at Saltburn, children looking at a bombed building from a metal fence

Joe Louis with female model cheerleader feeling the size of his bicep at Earls Court

British troops in Sherman tanks roll throught the narrow cobbled streets of a Normandy town in Northern France shortly after the D-Day landings begun the Allied invasion of the continent during World

Marquis the Chimpanzee riding a bicycle and carrying two year old Baron on his shoulders out on their morning exercise in the West End, London, 22nd September 1948

Fashion 1940s Model Platino fox fur coat

Sir Ben Smith at meeting of Cannock Chase Miners to consider Sunday working at the colliery February 1947 February 1947 006731/2

Black Postmen employed at King Edwards Buildings London 1949 Among a hundred black postmen employed at King Edward Building Post Office as collectors and sorters are astor Fitzgerald Manhertz (left)

Scotland Yard Police Station circa 1947 006776 / 1
Scotland Yard Police Station circa 1947 006776/1

Coventry Railway Station suffered severe bomb damage during the Blitz of WWII. Circa 1941

Tennis Fred Perry and Dan Maskell coach children from the Surbiton High School. 1949 019090/3

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