Britain Collection (#5)

A group of women walk along the seafront at Brighton July 1958

Children enjoying candyfloss from a stall on the seafront at Brighton July 1958

Holidaymaker sunbathing on the pebble beach at Brighton July 1958

A man getting undressed on the pebble beach at Brighton as he prepares to for a swim July 1958

A woman goes for a swim in the sea on the beach at Brighton July 1958

A customer looking through the window of antique dealers shop in The Lanes in Brighton July 1958

A woman goes for a paddle in the sea on the beach at Brighton July 1958

An antique dealers talking to a customer outside his shop in The Lanes in Brighton July 1958

An antique dealers inspects his goods at his shop in The Lanes in Brighton July 1958

A woman goes for a paddle in the sea as a young gurl picks up a handful of sand on the beach at Brighton July 1958

A group of women go for a swim on the beach at Brighton beach July 1958

A woman sunbathing on the pebble beach at Brighton July 1958

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

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

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

Home Guard volunteers are cheered by local residents sitting on the side of the road as they run through a training exercise in the Weybridge, Surrey during the Second World War. 24th May 1943

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

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

An RAF officer preparing cut outs of enemy planes from magazines to stick on the walls of his office classroom which he uses to train pupils to quickly recognise enemy aircraft. 11th May 1941

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

Mr Mack, the Lighting Inspector for Hornsey Borough Council, with some of the hundreds of street gas lamps being maintained and overhauled at the Boroughs depot

Crowds celebration Victory in Japan Day in Albert Square, Manchester at the end of the Second World War. 15th August 1945

Women baking Swiss Rolls and sultana puddings, put their desserts into the oven during the Diploma course at the John Heddon RAF Cookery School in Hatton. 7th November 1944

An American locomotive, one of the first batch to arrive in the United Kingdom for many years, being cleaned by women. 14th April 1943

Workers celebrate Victory in Europe Day in Manchester at the end of the Second World War. 8th May 1945

The mobile operation section of the Wembley Civil Defence give a demonstration of how the job is done to crowds at Wembley stadium. 20th October 1942

Couple carrying the remaining possessions from their bombed home in a pram following an enemy attack in North West London during the Second World War. 16th February 1941

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