Second World War Collection (page 9)

A miner enjoying the newly installed showers at Askern Colliery near Doncaster, South Yorkshire. This Bevin Boy is Bill Thomas

A photograph of a group of Bevin Boy miners receiving their equipment on their first day at Askern Coliiery near Doncaster, South Yorkshire

Two young Blackawton lads helping with the evacuation of the village. Circa November 1943

Local farmer with his steam tractor engine and threshing machine seen here leaving Slapton at the beginning of the evacuation. Circa November 1943

Locals at Kings Arms Beesands have a final drink before the pub closes for the duration of the evacuation. Circa December 1943

Lease-end entertainment. These British boys on an American ships going to the British beaches were entertained by the yankees during the voyage. 8th June 1944

Owing to the ban around the coast, Sea Cadets cannot now attend their usual camps, which are held every year, by the sea. These Cadets have made their camp on a river island at Thames Ditton

Children from various schools in Liverpool arriving at Colomendy School camp in Wales, where they are being met by friends and playmates previously evacuated to the camp. 5th March 1941

The deserted villages of the South Devon coast are battle scarred and shattered after the area had been used as a battle field by American forces in extensive invasion training

Allied troops proceed inland into Northern France on the mission to liberate France and Europe following the Normandy landings of 6th June 1944

Great Western Arcade, Birmingham after it was bombed in the Second World War. Circa 1945

View of Geraldine House, headquarters of the Daily Mirror newspaper in Fetter Lane, London, decked out in flags and bunting ahead of the VJ Day celebrations in London at the end of World War Two

Second World War Veterans, (from left) Albert Dunn, George Russell, Bill Harrison, Gilbert Pearson, Alf Welch and James Connelly

Jam production in Maidenhead, Berkshire, England. Britains Jam for civilians and troops is an all the year round occupation

Jim Clark racing driver aged 5 with sisters Susan Betty Mattie Isobel Scottish World Champion Circa 1941

The ham sandwiches without which no railway refreshment room had seemed complete were one of the first casualties of rationing in World War Two

Stretch of beach that has been closed to the public at Eastbourne for the duration of the war. A small baby is well protected whilst his parents bathe. 24th June 1941

A group of miners enjoying a meal after the opening of a pithead canteen at Isabella Pit in Throckley near Newcastle. 1st March 1942

Preparatory Training Centre, Rathbone Road, Liverpool, 2nd July 1940. The school is now being expanded for use as a training centre for the instruction in the engineering trades

Mr and Mrs Lambert, Mr and Mrs Fraser, engineering shop, Stockport. 23rd June 1941

This is the Whitley Community Centre (Reading) calling. You are listening (in theory) to four-year-old twin brothers Peter and Tony Brownlee at their bedtime concert

Jacqueline Darcy, twenty three year old of the French Resistance (third right), who forged more than three hundred identity cards

A Sherman Firefly 1C Tank of the 11th Armoured Division leads a column of tanks through Gemert, Holland. 26th September 1944

Two Prefabricated Ports, each as big as Gibraltar were manufactured in Britain in sections, towed across the Channel, and set down off the coast of Normandy

Land Army Girls out and about in Reading. Circa 1942

The Battle of Taranto during the Second World War. The Royal Navy launched the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history

The nuclear mushroom cloud rising over the Japanese city of Nagasaki following the dropping of the plutonium implosion bomb codenamed Fat Man on the city on the 9th August 1945

Pavement Artist at work on the Embankment, London. Circa 1945

Hawker Typhoon a British single-seat fighter-bomber, produced by Hawker Aircraft. Seen here armed with armed with four " 60 lb" RP-3 rockets under each wing

Consolidated PBY Catalina Flying Boat

Birmingham Blitz during the Second World War. Damage to John Bright Street following an air raid. 20th November 1940

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in a car with his daughter Mary on his way to Guildhall to receives the Freedom of the City of London. 30th June 1943

Perhaps the most enduring image of Teesside during the Second World War is the bombing of Middlesbrough railway station. It was on August 3 1942 that a lone Luftwaffe Dornier Do 217 evaded British

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill hands a cigar band from one of his famous cigars to a little girl in the crowd on his way down to the United States from Niagara Falls, Canada. August 1943

American troops take a break from their intensive training whilst in England to help bring in the harvest. Our Picture Shows

Royal Ordnance Factory, Ministry of Supply, Wales, June 1941

Crowd gathers on a statue in Trafalgar Square London 1945 on VE night, end of WW2 in Europe 8th May 1945

Radar devices on RAF Lancaster bomber during the Second World War. The tell-tale bulge on this Lancaster bomber, just below the RAF roundel is the blister containing the revolving reflector-like

Guy Gibson VC leader of 617 squadron RAF "The Dambusters"
Guy Gibson VC leader of 617 squadron RAF " The Dambusters" (bottom right) and water pouring through the huge hole blasted in the Mohne dam by the RAFs new bouncing bomb

An Avro Lancaster bomber which has been frequently flown as a Master bomber pictured after completing its 100th operation. She is Lancaster A-Able and is pictured with members of the ground crew

Testing beacon light bulbs at the Lemington Glass Works Ltd, Lemington, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear. 25th January 1945. P13474

Features - Stella Rutter who has written a book about her memories of the preparations for D-Day. She is pictured in her home in Emsworth, Hampshire. Stella in a studio photo from Sept. 1939

A section of the Hayes Engineering plant at Speke, south Liverpool, now working to capacity, turning out agricultural machinery

Mersey Defence Sea Forts. A general view of the sea forts standing out in the sea area, a prototype of those which are in the Thames, they make an impressive sight from the deck of the relief vessel

Hop pickers arrive on the train from London to help harvest this years crop. This family are shown leaving Paddock Wood station heading off to the hop fields - note the carpet

Land Army girls sheep shearing in Hyde Park, London. 16th May 1940

Sea Cadets go overboard with life belt as it gives their confidence in this use of lifesaving apparatus. July 1942 P009211

Children of Liverpool, Merseyside, playing in a bomb site left since the end of the Second World war. 5th August 1954

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