Home Front Collection (#11)

Bobby, a cat, is eyes and ears to his mistress Miss Walker, of Chandos Road, London. This cat wakes his mistress, who is deaf and nearly blind, when the air raid alert sounds

Using timber which is of no use for war production, a game of Land Army girls at Bywell near Newcastle Upon Tyne are supplying wood to keep the home fires burning

Members of an Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) Ambulance Company pictured in battle training in the Lake District during the Second World War

A factory worker cutting steel in a tank factory. 26th October 1942

Mother is so busy on the farm that six-month-old baby Betty goes ploughing too. Fellow workers on a Glamorgan farm helped Mrs.Wyatt to sling Bettys cradle securely

Odeon usherettes at Leicester Square in central London are ready for anything in fire fighting after having formed their own fire fighting squad

Home Guard Stand Down Parade in London. Left to right: C. S. M. W. L. Malcolm and C. S
Home Guard Stand Down Parade in London. Left to right: C.S.M. W.L. Malcolm and C.S.M. R. Wallace, both of the Ulster Home Guard. 3rd December 1944

The burnt out shell of the Gresham Warehouses, Moor Street, Birmingham following a heavy air raid on the city. 21st April 1941

The shattered remains of the Birmingham Evening Mail garage in St Georges Street following a heavy air raid on the city. 19th November 1940

Workmen repair the tramlines at Tyburn Road, Birmingham following an air raid on the city. 3rd September 1940

From dusk to dawn, at an important un-named works in Birmingham, the works Home Guard man a specially built look-out tower

Birmingham furniture store displays in its shop window, a bed air raid protection frame. Designed to stop debris falling on to those bed ridden persons who could not reach an air raid shelter

Workmen survey the shattered remains of W. H. Smart in Wrentham Street
Workmen survey the shattered remains of W.H. Smart in Wrentham Street, Birmingham following the air raid of 9th April 1941

The burnt out shell of Carlton House, High Street, Birmingham following the an air raid on the city 21st April 1941

The extent of the damage to New Street and the High Street, Birmingham, caused by the raid on the city on the night of the 9th/10th April

King George VI tours the bomb shattered areas of Birmingham following the city suffering a series of heavy air raids on the city

A ceiling collapse on a ward on the first floor of The Westminster Hospital after suffering severe damage from a landmine in May 1941

A member of staff holds a damaged instrument amongst the rubble of The Westminster Hospital after suffering severe damage from a landmine in May 1941

German shells explode harmlessly in the English Channel off the coast at Lea Cliff, Folkestone. The town and its neighbouring town of Dover were shelled by German long range artillery batteries

Animals ARP. A gas proof kennel on displayed by the animal charity P. D. S. A
Animals ARP. A gas proof kennel on displayed by the animal charity P.D.S.A. at an unknown location during the build up to the Second World War. Circa 1939

A ward exposed to the elements on the first floor of The Westminster Hospital after suffering severe damage from a landmine in May 1941

Munition girls at work at a Welsh shell factory working for the Ministry of Supply during the Second World War. Circa 1941

View of the damage to to Mark Street, Cardiff following an air raid by bombers German Luftwaffe on the city on 29th April 1941

Female Air Raid Precaution wardens on duty during an invasion exercise in South Wales during the Second world War. 1940

View of the damage to Ben Evans devastated shop at Wind Street, Swansea following an air raid by bombers German Luftwaffe on the city on 16th February 1943

The 350, 000 gallon Emergency Water Supply tank in Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, from which the Liverpool corporation are removing 150 tons of rubble thrown in by children. 26th September 1943

Scene at the cook house at the Reading Home Guard camp in Berkshire during the Second World War. 15th June 1942

View showing the damage to pensioners bungalows in a residential area of Lincoln following an air raid by bombers of the German Luftwaffe on the night of 8th - 9th May 1941. 8th May 1941

Girls was work on the machines at a Royal Ordnance Factory Engineering factory in Cardiff, Wales during the Second world War. June 1941

A scene inside the Leece Street labour Exchange in Liverpool when the 1920 class of women attended for registration. From early 1941

Flight Lieutenant Howard Peter "Cowboy"Blatchford of Number 257 Squadron RAF
Flight Lieutenant Howard Peter " Cowboy" Blatchford of Number 257 Squadron RAF who, in his Hurricane fighter plane

Members of the Home Guard on parade Kidmore End near Reading, Berkshire on Sunday 18th May 1941

Home Guard on parade in Lincolnshire during the Second World War. 1941

March past of the Cardiff sector of the Home Guard at their final parade in Cardiff. The salute was taken by Lieutenant General D. G. Watson G.O.C. in Chief, Western Command. Circa 1941

Members of the Reading Home Guard during the Second World War. Circa 1942

Some of the office staff of a local Tin Box factory, making collecting boxes for the red Cross nurses. The production is done after working hours due to the labour shortage. 6th November 1941

The band of an Army Technical School leads the parade of Officers and men of HMS Garth from the railway station to the Town Hall in Wokingham, Berkshire during the Second World War. 26th January 1945

Trainees at a Royal Engineers Transportation training centre repair locomotive wheels in one of the workshops during the Second world War. 24th August 1943

Air Raid Precaution (ARP) bomb demonstration held at Reading, Berkshire during the Second World War. Among the observers are the Regional Commissioner Sir Harry Haig, Alderman H. Bale, Alderman A

The cast of the play "The Moon Is Down"which was given by an RAF Amateur
The cast of the play " The Moon Is Down" which was given by an RAF Amateur Dramatic Society at an RAF station in Woodley, Berkshire during the Second World War

A Royal Air Force officer addressing workers at a factory near Reading, Berkshire during the Second world War. 10th April 1942

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

View showing the damage to St Michael and All Angels church in Waddington, Lincolnshire following an air raid by bombers of the German Luftwaffe on the night of 8th - 9th May 1941

Womens Home Guard on parade at St Benedicts Square in Lincoln during the Second World War. 15th May 1944

A Royal Air Force officer etched women workers at a factory near Reading, Berkshire during the Second world War. 10th April 1942

A group of recruits for the Reading Home Guard Ant-Aircraft Battery pictured on parade observed by NCOs and Officers during the Second World War. 1st June 1942

A scene inside the labour Exchange in Cardiff when the 1920 class of women attended for registration. From early 1941, it became compulsory for women aged between 18 and 60 to register for war work

A female worker inspecting the cooling system of a Lancaster bomber plane of the Royal Air Force at an aircraft production site near reading, Berkshire during the second world War. 8th July 1943

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