Salvage Collection

Pupils at Binley Park Comprehensive school in Coventry are collecting newspapers to recycle and have already collected over a ton

The vicar and parishioners search through the rubble and wreckage of St Clements, Newfoundland Road, Bristol shortly after the November 24th 1940 air raid on the city

The salvage operation of HMS Gipsy. East coast of Britain, near Harwich, Essex. November 1939. HMS Gipsy was a G-class destroyer built for the Royal Navy during the 1930s

ARP personnel and rescue workers did through the rubble of Sculcoates Lane, Hull looking for survivors following the raid on the city 7th - 8th May 1941

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

A salvage scene on a side street in Bath during the Second World War. 27th April 1942

Rain floods an 8th army sector in Italy. (Picture) Priority salvage, all hands turn out to save the rations after heavy rain in the Camucin Cortina area of Italy. Circa 13th July 1944

Members of the Civil Defence Services seen here salvaging goods and food from the bombed area of Rogerstone, Wales. Circa 1941

Remains of Liverpool Market after raid during night of Saturday 20th December 1941

Busy scene on a blitzed housing estate, Collin Road, Birkenhead, where the voluntary services aided in the salvaging and removal of furniture from demolished homes, Friday 16th April 1941

Housewife Baling waste paper into neat bundle in Derby 15th October 1939 Paper recycling was also important in the Second World War huge demands were put upon British timber stocks

Salvage workers shift through the wreckage the Guildhall after a direct hit on the building during the air raid on Hull May 7-8 raid in 1941

ARP personnel, Air Raid Wardens and Firemen search the devastation of Rowlston and Aldborough Grove, Hull following the detonation of a parachute mine dropped by the Luftwaffe during the raid of

ARP personnel, Air raid warden help to search for survivors in an East Hull street after a German raid on the city 9th May 1941

Rescue workers search rubble for survivors after a parachute mine detonated on Bean Street in Hull during the Luftwaffe raid on the city on the night of the 14th - 15th March 1941

Children on Paignton Green in September 1942 building a "mile of books"
Children on Paignton Green in September 1942 building a " mile of books" as part of the County Salvage Drive

Paigntons paper salvage depot in May 1942

Paignton lads admiring their haul of scrap metal in a school holiday campaign called " Noisy But Useful", pictured in August 1940

Residents of a bombed-out road in Henleaze recover clothing and belongings from the remains of their homes following an air raid. Circa March 1941

A girl has rescued a dolls house from the destruction of a house as salvage workers sift through the wreckage of homes destroyed in Newfoundland Road, Bristol during the blitz. 25th November 1940

A victim of the blitz in Stafford Street, Bedminster, salvages some of the familys belongings from the ruins of their home. 29th November 1940

Residents of aCheriton Place, Westbury-on-Trym, Bristol. recover clothing and belongings from the remains of their homes following an air raid. Circa March 1941

Residents of Stafford Street, Bedminster, Bristol pick their way through the rubble following the previous nights heavy raid on the city January 1941

Bristol hospital bombed 1941 March / April
Bristol hospital bombed 1941 March/April

The children of Temple Green, Gateshead, were enthusiastic collectors of scrap metal for the salvage campaign during the Second World War

Workers load a lorry with 50 bales of salvaged paper weighing three tons at Newcastle Corporation Cleansing Dept. for despatch to the mills where it would be re-pulped. 1941

Only a few hours after Coventry firemen had doused the last of the flames, workers in gum boots were toiling among the wreckage to clear the vital assembly lines at the Jaguar car factory

War - World War II - Picture of the damage caused by German bombers during air raids over Cardiff. Picture shows Albany Road, Cardiff - Jan 1941

This Firm Scarpped Wigan Pier: Pix show some of the 400 tons of scrap metal in the Orchard St. Wigan, yard of Calderbank s, " Spot Cash" Metal Merchants

Piles of tin and aliminium cans are crushed by a giant steam roller for salvage as part of the effort to recycle used metal during the Second World War January 1942

Five big British Warships for Scrapheap. Five of the most famous ships in the British Navy are to be broken up for scrap because they are no longer any use as fighting ships

The Liner Montrose and the tugs which were sent to re-float her in the Mersey. 20th February 1933

World War II. Now almost sixty years after this here are Teds railings being moved from the cemetery at Jesmond, Newcastle

It looks as though these WaFs are trying to make the top of the tall chimney their " target". They are here seen loading hundreds of thousands of salvaged aluminium milk bottle caps into

Children of Abbey Lane School Stratford, check a collection of old rubber mainly salvaged from this creek and river nearby but they cannot get anybody remove the stuff from the classroom

A souvenir of World War One, a German Howitzer being pushed to the scrap heap for metal at a village in Surrey while a light tank passes by. May 1945 P010150

A hundred household in Oakhurst Terrace, Benton gave up their garden railings to help the drive for scrap metal during the Second World War. Workmen are seen removing some of the railings. 12/08/1940

A First World War artillery gun was among a lorry load of scrap metal which toured Newcastle in conjunction with Salvage Week during the Second World War. 08/07/1940

Guildford Place in Newcastle seen here following a overnight air raid in 1941

A relic of the First World War among a lorry load of scrap metal which toured Newcastle in July 1940 in connection with Salvage Week

Householders in Oakhurst Terrace, Benton, Newcastle have given their garden railings to help the drive for scrap iron. August 1940

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