Home Front Collection (page 9)

Arrangements have been made for 1000 East London national Fire Service (NFS) youth messengers to spend week-ends under canvas at 36 Fire Force Area camp at Chigwell, Essex, during the summer months

Because Ilford fire-women who are competing in a tug-o -war tournament in Walthamstow on Whit Monday have no team with which to practise

Scene showing the bomb damage in Norwich, Norfolk following an air raid by the German Luftwaffe on the city in late April 1942

Aftermath of a V2 rocket attack on Middlesex Street, Aldgate, London during the Second World War. A clothes warehouse was hit (Norwegian Clothing Ltd) and some of the stores caught fire

A temporary post office assembled in Cardiff. The Lord Mayor and Lord Mayoress (Alderman and Mrs. James Hellyer) are seen inspecting the structure alongside Mr. W.F

The latest recruits carry a poster in a march of the 77th Lancashire (Bootle, Liverpool) Home Guard. 11th August 1941

Mr W G Marks, manager of the Liverpool Corporation Passenger Transport Depot inspecting a parade company of the departments Home Guard prior to a church parade commencing at Dingle, Liverpool

British Army Royal Engineers sapper J W Gould from Leeds, helping US soldier Private Simon Davido of New York unload supplies at Liverpool docks from one of the first American ships to bring supplies

Their home destroyed by a German V-1 flying bomb, the Metcalf family carrying on with their usual routine of bacon for breakfast around the kitchen table amidst the chaos

Home Guard inspecting a pass at a Wallasey anti aircraft battery site on the Home Front during the second World War. 2nd July 1943

Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) members at the new "Woolwich Arsenal"
Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) members at the new " Woolwich Arsenal", the new Ordnance depot built in the north of England

Mrs Hilda Crew, of Pontllanfraith, said to be the first female bus-driver in Monmouthshire, Wales during the Second world War. April 1942

Mrs. Jean Knox, Director of the Auxiliary Territorial Service, inspects the women of the ATS in Cardiff during the Second World War. August 1941

Two policewomen on duty in Cardiff during the Second World War. Mrs D. M. Cooper and Miss M. L. Kenefick keep an eye on mailbags. Circa 1941

The crater left by an enemy bomb in Christian Street, Liverpool after a heavy air raid by the Nazi German Luftwaffe on the city on the night of 28th -29th November 1940

The Mechanised Transport Corps, a British womens organisation that initially provided its own transport and uniforms and operated during the Second World War

The Royal Marines band visit to Liverpool during the second Word War. 19th January 1942

Home Guard enjoying a meal at a Wallasey anti aircraft battery site on the Home Front during the second World War. 2nd July 1943

C Company of the 5th Battalion Liverpool Home Guard are the proud possessors of the first Home Guard Pipe band in England. Pipe Major Macleod is seen here leading the company. 26th January 1941

British Army Royal Engineers sappers and US soldiers becoming working together at Liverpool docks unloading one of the first American ships to bring supplies to the United Kingdom. 29th June 1942

Home Guard manning an anti aircraft gun at a Wallasey Ant-Aircraft battery site on the Home Front during the Second World War. 2nd July 1943

Damage to housing in Bordesley Green, Birmingham following an air raid on the city. 24th April 1943

Sergeant. -major Jackson, who less than a month ago was in Bombay
Sergeant.-major Jackson, who less than a month ago was in Bombay, in seven minutes became Mrs H. J. Jackson, of 10, Perrivale-road, Bearwood, Birmingham

WaF at a dispersal camp in Hereford being demobbed. 18th June 1945

Civic authorities arrive at the Hall of Memories, Centenary Square, Birmingham, for a service of thanksgiving following the allied armies victory in Europe. 9th May 1945

Victoria Square, Birmingham, shortly after Mr. Churchills radio announcement of the end of the war in Europe. 8th May 1945

A service of thanksgiving following the allied armies victory in Europe at the Hall of Memories, Centenary Square, Birmingham. 9th May 1945

Mr. Walter Higgs. M. P. tries out one of the new bunks in a public air raid shelter while
Mr. Walter Higgs. M.P. tries out one of the new bunks in a public air raid shelter while chatting to the Lord Mayor of Birmingham. 4th October 1940

Leading Fire woman Isobel Brown who is in charge of the Fire Control Room in Nuneaton 26th June 1942

Birmingham General Hospital damaged by incendiary bombs during an air raid on the city. 30th July 1942

A pile of rubble surrounds an Anderson shelter in the back garden of terrace housing off Farm Street, Hockley, Birmingham following an air raid on the city. 30th July 1942

Damage to housing in School Road, Hall Green, Birmingham following an air raid on the city. 31st July 1942

Firemen dampen down the burnt-out shell of the grandstand at St. Andrew s, Birmingham F.C.Os ground. 21st January 1942

Rocket projector drill for the Home Guard during the Second World War. West Midlands. 5th July 1942

Leading Aircraftman Horace Perks, his wife, nine year old daughter and Mrs Morrin of Highgate Road, Balsall Heath, Birmingham who were saved by a Morrison shelter after a large part of the house

A pile of rubble is that all that remains of Lozells Picture Theatre that stood on the corner Lozells Road and Malthouse Gardens, Birmingham, following an air raid on the city. 28th July 1942

Bomb damage to a terrace of Nuneaton houses 26th June 1942

Workmen clearing the rubble in Highgate Road, Balsall Heath, Birmingham following an air raid on the city. 30th July 1942

Members of the Perks and Morrin families of Highgate Road, Balsall Heath, Birmingham who were saved by a Morrison shelter after a large part of the house collapsed around them during an air raid

Workmen clearing the rubble at Rookery Road, Handsworth, Birmingham following an air raid on the city. 28th July 1942

Crater next to a public surface air raid shelter in St Phillips Churchyard, central Birmingham following a near miss during an air raid on the city. 28th July 1942

A pile of rubble is all that remains of terrace housing off Farm Street, Hockley, Birmingham following an air raid on the city. 30th July 1942

Kentish Town residents survey the damage caused by a V1 from a window which lost its glass in the blast. 19th June 1944

Bomb damage around the City of London following the most devastating raid on London which took place on the night of 10/11 May 1941. The moon was full and the Thames had a very low ebb tide

Members of the LCC salvage squad and members of the ARP search the rubble of a V1 detonation site in Kentish Town. 19th June 1944

Homeless Chelsea residents, who lost their home during the previous nights air raid on the city. 23rd February 1944

Fire crews tackling a blaze following an air raid, at Taylors Great Central Depository in St Georges Road, Southwark, on 31st January 1941

Soldiers discarded tunics and coats as they help with the clean up of Chelsea following the previous nights raid on the city. 23rd February 1944

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