Sandbags Collection

A communication trench somewhere in North Africa during Second World War. Circa 1940s

Checkpoint Charlie crossing point in the Berlin Wall located at the junction of Friedrichstrae with Zimmerstrae and Mauerstrae

Home Guard Round Up Enemy"in Birmingham All-Night Test
Home Guard Round Up Enemy" in Birmingham All-Night Test. Incidents during the mock invasion operations in the Birmingham area 12th July 1941

The entrance to the Cadbury factory at Bournville as workmen clean up after flooding caused by a direct hit on the nearby Birmingham to Worcester canal bridge

Sandbags being placed against the walls of the Birmingham Education Committee building in St Margaret Street. Circa 1st September 1939

Shop workers in Birmingham city centre filling sandbags in preparation of the outbreak of the Second World War

Sandbags to the left, sandbags to the right, and sandbags all around. They are everywhere in Derby. This huge pile is seen against the walls of the Derby Borough Police. 15th September 1939

Council workmen constructing a public air raid shelter outside Lloyds Bank in Church Road, Birmingham on the eve of the outbreak of the Second Word War. 1st September 1939

Workmen complete the sandbagging of Birminghams Magistrates Court on Corporation Street in the week following the outbreak of the Second World War. 12th September 1939

A council workman surveys the sandbag protection at an un-named school in the West Midlands. Circa September 1939

Birmingham University students and workmen from the City Council seen here filing sandbags in a pit near the University, for the protection of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital on the eve of the outbreak

Birmingham City Council workmen seen here filling and sandbagging the Citys Education Office in Margaret Street in the city centre a few days before the outbreak of the Second World War

Many hands make light work... Said these girls from C and A
Many hands make light work...Said these girls from C and A. When they cheerfully joined in sandbag filling in Birmingham City Centre on the eve of the outbreak of the Second World War

Filling in the Unknown Warriors grave in Westminster Abbey, London. 18th November 1920

Making sandbags in the shelter - Women are making and men filling sandbags in the basement of the India building in the city. The basement of this building is to be an official shelter

German troops seen here sniping at a Russian patrol from behind a breastworks built of sandbags as medics see to an injured soldier. Location not known. Circa 1915

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

Men of the Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry in the front line near Ypres with the regimental mascot. The trees in the background have been stripped of all their foliage and branches by enemy fire

Sandbags are placed for the protection of buildings in Newcastle in prepartion for air raids. 03/09/1939

Newcastle Chronicle and Journal staff wearing gas masks as part of air raid precautions (A R P) training. Air Raid Wardens. Circa : 1940

Work is pushed ahead on the group of ARP air raid shelters at the Vickers-Armstrong Scotswood works in Newcastle. 16/04/1939

Photograph taken by a wounded soldier of the 1st Royal Scots Fusiliers who was brought down a few yards in front of a German Advance trench at Bellewarde

Lord Kitchener (2nd right) seen here on a tour of the trenches in the Dardanelles with General Maxwell (2nd left). In this image the two commanders were within thirty yards of the Turkish trenches

Hugh and Herbert Spencer and their ground crew seen here preparing the Spencer Airship for flight, image is believed to have been taken near Croydon Circa May 1908

Mr. Winston Churchill paid a visit on Wednesday to Dover and Ramsgate where he inspected air raid damage and met local A.R.P. workers

Sandbags being piled up around the Town Hall in Birmingham at the outbreak of the second world war. September 1939

Sandbags being piled up around the Town Hall in Birmingham during the war. September 1939

Sewing sand bags in the East End of London during WW2 1939

Marines of the British Naval Brigade seen here sniping at the enemy from the windows of houses on the Lierre Road two miles from the outskirts of Antwerp. Circa October 2nd 1914

Belgian Civil Guards, regular army and boy scouts man a street barricade belived to be in the suburbs of Brussels. Circa August 18th 1914

Royal Marine from the Naval Brigade seen here manning a barricade made from sandbags on the road from Lierre at Vieux Dieu. Circa October 1st 1914 Published Daily Mirror Pages 6 & 7 October 12th 1914

Officers with the British Naval Brigade seen here talking with a Belgian at the defences on the road from Vieux Dieu. Circa 1st October 1914. Published Daily Mirror Pages 6 & 7 October 12th 1914

Belgian artillery which assisted the forts during the seige of Antwerp, seen here returning fire, hidden behind trees to conceal its position

Belgian soldiers and Royal Marines from the Naval Brigade seen here manning a barricade made from sandbags on the road from Lierre

Marines from the Naval Brigade seen here building a sandbag barricade behind which they await the adavance of the Germans along the road from Vieux Dieu

Belgian Civil Guards seen here building a barricade across one of the roads leading into Brussels Circa August 1914

Belgian Civil Guards seen here manning a barricade across one of the roads leading into Brussels Circa August 1914

Street barricade made from sacks and bricks set across one of the approach roads to central Brussels. Circa August 18th 1914

Sandbags are placed for the protection of vital buildings in Gateshead in prepartion for air raids. Here workmen place the bags around the childrens hospital. 07/10/1939

Sandpacking, Filling sandbags in Birmingham city centre in the months leading up to the outbreak of the second world war. August 1939

Packing sandbags at the evacuation hospitals in Birmingham during world war two September 1939

Sandbags surrounding the Town Hall in Birmingham during the war. September 1939

Sandbags being piled up outside Birmingham Magistrates Court during the war. 12/9/1939

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