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Home Guards are given instructions on how to defeat enemy tanks during training at the Home Guard School of Instruction. Here they are pictured leading off the tank crew after capturing the vehicle
Spotters getting acquainted with various types of German aircraft by means of charts. Here they are seen donning their warm coats and beginning the look-out, 21st September 1940
A fireman reading the wording on the remains of a bomb to a police officer who takes notes, following a V1 flying bomb attack in the Second World War
Firemen of the NFS attending an assault and toughening up training course at Number 36 Regional Reserve Training Station in Chigwell, Essex
The 400 year old antique Royal Oak Inn, nestling under the rustic shadow of the village church in Pillaton, was the place of parade for the last " Fallin of the Pillaton G Platoon" Number 2
National Fire Service at work on turntable ladders to put out a fire in Brittania Row, London after an enemy attack. The firemen with much hard work prevented the fire from spreading to flats
Fieldcraft school student examines himself in glass to admire his camouflage during the Second World War. 17th September 1941
Miss Vera Pearson helping in the rigging loft of the Royal National Lifeboat Institutions Stores. Alfred Stephens, an ex-Navy man
WaF Flight mechanic with parachute before a test flight at Trainer Station, South Cerney, Wiltshire. 14th October 1942
USA London Bus Tour. Bus crew members lined up in front of an RT London Bus. RT 2775 was delivered to London Transport in January 1952 and was selected to represent the British Travel
Fishermen mending herring nets aboard their drifter, at North Shields fish quay. 7th September 1935
Girls from the Czech youth movement Sokol in Britain, performing fitness exercises in the park during the Second World War. 14th April 1943
A woman at work cultivating rich black farmland soil in the English countryside. 28th July 1942
Women who have been bombed out of their homes receiving their clean laundry from the mobile unit in the London area after a V1 flying bomb incident. 10th July 1944
Private Albert Laws, a soldier in the British Army and former prisoner of war, is met by seven girls at his home. His fiancee is seen with her arms round him. 8th October 1945
10 year old Alan Barker with a friendly pigeon on his head as he walks along the promenade at Bognor Regis. 4th August 1964
Crowded beach at Margate with holiday makers enjoying the sun. 4th August 1964
Summer scenes at Bognor Regis, West beach. Sunbathers enjoying the weather. 4th August 1964
Summer scenes at Bognor Regis Sunbathers enjoying the weather on the main beach. 4th August 1964
Summer scenes at Bognor Regis, West beach. 16 year old student Inga enjoying the weather. 4th August 1964
A tug boat hauling a floating home along to its new site on the River Thames September 1974
A Japanese tennis competition in London between the Embassy and Commercial staffs on the courts at the back of the Holy Trinity Church in London
A group of friends enjoy a picnic out in the countryside during their farm holiday at the end of the Second World War. 29th July 1945
Mother holding her baby outisde her home on Bethnal Green, London following an enemy V2 rocket attack. 8th February 1945
Crowds make their way down to an underground shelter as the air raid siren sounds minutes after war is declared. 3rd September 1939
Young air scouts looking at a model of a stirling bomber, curious to know where the bomb come from when they are dropped, at the Air Scout Exhibition held at Dorland Park in London
Conscientious objectors on their way to plead their case at Liverpool tribunal. 25th March 1941
A control car in action used by the National fire Service during the blitz in the Second World War. October 1940
A soldier in the British Army relaxes with a cigarette as he sits beside the firplace accompanied by his wife and young daughter while on leave during the Second World War. 7th January 1945
Miss Ellen Wilkinson gives her sympathies to Corporal Biddle whose five year old twins had not been discovered amongst the debris of a bombed school
Dogs searching amongst the glass outside a bakers shop for buns in Elgin Terrace, Maida Vale, after an attack from a German V1 flying bomb. 23rd June 1944
Girls assembling cylinder studs on crank cases of Rolls Royce Merlin engines as they are made at a factory in the Northwest of England
A woman at the Midland Regional Womens Training College of the National Fire Service running repairs to the lorries and tenders as part of her training for her duties in the NFS. 29th May 1942
A female factory worker stirring strawberries to be made into jam at Wisbech Smedleys factory which will be sent on to the troops fighting all over the world during the Second World War
Children sitting in a doorway left behind in bombed out Doris Street, Lambeth, London. 7th May 1943
Sign of the times, dismantling of bunks in Londons Finsbury Park Tube Station at the end of the Second World War. 13th April 1945
Soldiers gathering potatoes from farmland in East Anglia, whilst one of the boys sits and keep a look out for German planes who try to interfere, armed with a machine gun. 27th August 1942
Couple speaking to seated audience at a fundraising meeting during the Second World War. Circa 1942
Member of the Home Guard loading his shotgun with cartridges on patrol outside Warwick Castle during the Second World War. 18th January 1941
General view showing Blackpool Illuminations, Lancashire September 1954
Blackpool Illuminations seen looking North from the Top of the Tower. July 1954
A woman washing her nylons in an all in one refrigerator, cooker and sink 1951 1950s household domestic chores
Inside Big Ben clock in London 1949. O19836 - 001
Scenic views of London and the River Thames. 1940s
Inside Big Ben clock in London 1949. O19836
Opening of South Bank Exhibition 1951 Festival of Britain Try it Yourself exhibits Ann Tonner 7, received piece of toffee from " cook" XP00 XP20 DM 5/5/1951 B2061/4
Opening of South Bank Exhibition - model of head showing brain Festival of Britain 5/5/1951 B2061/6
