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Children of St. Benedicts Road School, Small Heath during their evacuation rehearsal 28th August 1939
World War Two, evacuation of children. Written in the faces of these children, setting off to safety is a tale of fears and doubts hardly formed in their bewildered minds
Police with helmets and gas masks 1939 Bristol
A woman wearing a protective gas mask - February 1981 holding and spraying a can of Ant Killer Spray. Pest Control -
ARP exercise in Reading during the Second World War in preparation for re-acting to German air raids on the city. Picture shows" A " casualty" awaitng attention during the training
Miss Sarah Churchill, the Prime Ministers daughter with Wing Commander Hodsoll, Inspector General of Civil Defence Services
Mr T. M. Watson, Chief Constable of Wallsall (wearing mac), leading his men in to the gas van during the Gas Drills at Walsall Fire station in preparation for a real attack. 29th October 1936
Additional filters for civilian respirators to increase their efficiency against smoke gases are now being fitted.Here is an Air Raid Precaution warden (ARP)
District Officer Coleman explaining the air raid precautions to the members of the Aston Hippodrome Company during their visit to the Central Fire Station in Birmingham
Firemen The London Fire Brigade. Checking their oxygen masks during the Blitz on London. World War Two.. No actual date for this picture, but Mirrorpix will suggest 29th December 1940
A. R. P. demonstration at Esher. Wardens wearing thir gas masks. April 1938A.R.P. demonstration at Esher. Wardens wearing thir gas masks. April 1938
Merseyside ARP team seen here wearing their gas suits and masks during a gas decontamination exercise, 14th July 1939
Air raid warden with nurse and baby in arms seen demonstrating the new gas helmet during an air raid gas exercise on Merseyside 24th July 1941
Air raid wardens seen here riding on a motorbike and sidecar during an air raid gas exercise on Merseyside 18th January 1938
Czecho-Slovakia Crisis (Sept. 13-29, 1938. ) A. R. P. measures taken in Liverpool as membersCzecho-Slovakia Crisis (Sept.13-29, 1938.) A.R.P. measures taken in Liverpool as members of the public seen here receiving their gas masks at an un-named school 27th September 1938
A. R. P. demonstration at Esher. Wardens seen here being given training on how to deal withA.R.P. demonstration at Esher. Wardens seen here being given training on how to deal with an incendiary bomb. April 1938
ARP Wardens testing gas masks at gas chamber, Lincoln 7 November 1938
As the crisis over the Sudetenland deepens and the threat of war between Great Britain and Germany seems more likely, the government issues gas masks to the population
Members of the ARP demonstrate how to deal with a suspected gas attack during a series of civil defence demonstration at Sandown Park April 1939
Nurses at Birmingham Hospital going on duty with their gas masks 5th September 1939
Children of St. Benedicts Road School, Small Heath, listen to instructions from the head master during their evacuation rehearsal 28th August 1939
A gas mask lesson at Birmingham Hospital for the doctors, nurses and ambulance men. 5th September 1939
Gas mask test at the start of the second world war, Bristol Circa September 1939
Members of the Reading Home Guard seen here as stretcher bearers during a simulated gas attack during a anti invasion exercise in the centre of the city. 27th July 1941
Two business men who usually travel to town by car share a tandem cycle after the introduction of petrol rationing on the 22nd September 1939
Telephone girls at Whitley Bay Post Office try out the gas masks as they prepare for any eventuality during A.R.P training. August 1938
British troops of the Irish 10th Division seen here wearing gas masks in the trenches in the Struma River valley, close to Salonika. 1st August 1916
Gas mask distribution in Birmingham, October 1939
On the day Britain declared war on Germany, following the invasion of Poland, people in the parks left their seats and walked to the A R P trenches as though they had all rehearsed it
Whitley Bay Post Officer workers wear gas masks during air raid precaution training. 27/08/1938
Air Raid Precaution Wardens take part in a pre-war exercise in the Scotwood Road area of Newcastle. 06/02/1939
Newcastle Chronicle and Journal staff wearing gas masks as part of air raid precautions (A R P) training. Air Raid Wardens. Circa : 1940
By 1941 many Newcastle firms, like this one on City Road, were adopting 24 hour fire-watching with use of roof spotters. 14/01/1941
Waiters wearing gas masks during an exercise at the Royal Station Hotel, Newcastle during the Second World War. 2nd April 1941
Wartime gas masks were sold by Mr Harry Breckner from his shop in Crowtree Road, Sunderland. He sold 2, 000 in just four days, children bought them to use as space masks
Just behind the British frontline. Men of the Scottish regiment get use to wearing their respirators.28th October 1915
Wallsend scholars of Richardson Dees school were quite happy at the prospect of living in the county as they set out for Ponteland district during the evacuation of the borough schools today
South Shields mothers and young children in cheerful mood, marching to the station for evacuation to the country. 9th September 1939
Safe and Happy - The happy faces of these Cowgate, Newcastle, children give reassurances that they are safe and enjoying their new surroundings after being evacuated
WW2 People wearing gas masks during tests Apr 1941
WW2 Fulham Council workers wearing their respirators for ten minutes each day
WW2 Army cookery school, June 1941. Women wearing gas masks while watching a cookery demonstration
Evacuees bound for Canada arrives at their assembly point for registration before going on to join their ship. The practice of evacuating children overseas stopped after a liner carrying several
Royal Marines march through their camp in gas masks during training for WW2 - 1940
Tear gas used in Brighton during a ARP gas exercise in February 1941
New gas chamber for testing gas masks on the roof of the guildhall in Kingston Upon Thames to reassure nervous people that their gas masks work and they are fitted correctly
Holidaymakers sunbathing look pityingly at a passing home front serviceman carrying a rifle and bayonet wearing tin helmet and gas mask. 15th July 1941
