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World War Two - Second World War - A naval officer on the beach at Dunkirk prior to evacuation. Circa: June 1940
World War Two - Second World War - Members of the Womens Land Army and members of the Young Farmers Clubs in Durham march to a service at the County School of Agriculture, Houghall
The Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II - Gurkha troops arrive at Southampton, on the liner Empire Orwell, to take part in the Coronation procession
The Newcastle Food Office, where staff were busy in December 1940 organising the issue of new ration books. 3rd December 1940
World War Two. British Army recruits march in the parade to St Thomass Church, Newcastle. The old soldier in the parade was formerly of the Tyne Electical Engineers. 27th May 1939
Post World War Two - Second World War - A crowd gathers at the biscuit counter of the Fenwicks store in Newcastle following the abolition of points rationing announced by Mr Webb, Food Minister
World War Two - Second World War - The picture shows a persons ration allowance for one week in 1941. 14th May, 1979
Post World War Two - Second World War - Ration Book - A cut to milk rations is illustrated in this picture. 19th October, 1946
World War Two - Second World War - Busy scenes at Newcastle Food Control Office, when many householders made applications to change their retailers of rationed foods. 21st January 1941
World War Two - Second World War - The caretakers house at High Heaton Secondary Girls School, Newcastle, which was destroyed in a German air raid. Circa: July 1940
World War Two - Second World War - Nine ounces of bread was to be the new post war daily ration allowance after the 21st July, 1946
World War Two - Second World War - British Army recruits take part in one of their first bayonet drills. 15th May 1938
World War Two - Second World War - In 1939 the government distributed leaflets on how to make the most of fruit and vegetables by making preserves. 19/11/1974
Post World War Two - Second World War - A Clothing Book for 1945-46 for clothes rationing. 24/04/1985
Post World War Two - Second World War - City grocery assistant, Mr William Wanup, makes a celebration cut on the first day of derationing of butter, 14 years after rationing of it began
Post World War Two - Second World War - Ration books were starting to be used for potatoes. The square in " Panel 3" on the back was to be cancelled by the greengrocer
Post World War Two - Second World War - Many thousands of ration books were unclaimed at St Jamess Church Hall, Newcastle, and some of them were being checked off in piles ready for issue
Post World War Two - Second World War - People exchange old ration books for new issues at the Ration Book Distribution Centre in St James Congregational Church Hall, Northumberland Road, Newcastle
Post World War Two - Second World War - German air raid on a North East of England town. Ocean View in Whitley Bay, which had been bombed with a land mine during the war, pictured in 1957
World War Two - Second World War - Rationing - Welfare Foods Service National Dried Milk. 02/05/1995
World War Two - Second World War - A Middlesbrough to Newcastle train which was machine gunned by a German aircraft during an air raid on North East during August, 1940
Post World War Two - Second World War - A woman collects her meat ration from a butcher. 12th January, 1951
World War Two - Second World War - A German V2 rocket blasts off in what is likely to be a test flight from the Peenemnde test base. Circa : 1943. (Kemsley picture date 26/02/1957)
World War Two - Second World War - German air raids on the North East of England. The map shows the place where bombs fell in Tynemouth and North Shields, 1940-43 The first bomb fell on June 26
World War Two - Second World War - Bomb damaged houses from a German air raid on a coastal town in the North East of England
World War Two - Second World War - Severely damaged houses in High Heaton, Newcastle, after a German air raid in September 1940
World War Two - Second World War - Workmen deal with the results of a German air raid on a town in the North Riding of Yorkshire. 25/05/1940
World War Two - Second World War - The corner Elswick Road and York Road, Newcastle, pictured post war and showing bomb damaged plots. 19th September, 1957
World War Two - Second World War - Families receive help and a hot drink in a neighbourhood devastated by the German V1 Flying Bombs. Circa : Sept. 1944
Telephone girls at Whitley Bay Post Office try out the gas masks as they prepare for any eventuality during A.R.P training. 27th August 1938
The pleasure steamer Sir Walter Scott seen here tied up for the duration of the second world war on Loch Katrine. 10th July 1943
Monte Pearson, the former jockey who was the smallest Home Guard, pictured behind the counter of his inn at Barnard Castle. 20/07/1960
Post Office members of the Home Guard on Sunday morning parade at the Orchard Street sorting offiice, Newcastle. February 1941
The air raid shelters in The Side, Newcastle, which were being demolished. Architect Bill Hopper is pictured prior to work commencing. 20/04/1998
The children of Temple Green, Gateshead, were enthusiastic collectors of scrap metal for the salvage campaign during the Second World War
Members of the Home Guard, formerly the Local Defence Volunteer (LDV), present a smart appearance as they step out on parade a North-East mustering depot in July 1940. 26/07/1940
A schoolboy wears a gas mask and helmet during a lesson about World War Two. Circa: 1980
Sandbags are placed for the protection of buildings in Newcastle in prepartion for air raids. 03/09/1939
On the day Britain declared war on Germany, following the invasion of Poland, people in the parks left their seats and walked to the A R P trenches as though they had all rehearsed it
Whitley Bay Post Officer workers wear gas masks during air raid precaution training. 27/08/1938
Air Raid Precaution Wardens take part in a pre-war exercise in the Scotwood Road area of Newcastle. 06/02/1939
A blaze near St Andrews Church, Newcastle, was a test for auxiliary firemen on duty during a pre Second World War exercise on an early Sunday morning. 8th May 1939
A young lady emerges from an Anderson Shelter after an air raid and a heavy night of bombing. Circa: 1940
Members of the Home Guard parade for the last time before disbanding in December 1944 at Barrras Bridge, Newcastle. 04/12/1944
Thomasina Thomson, 83, with her son, Cliff and daughter, Sylvia Adams. They are holding a picture of Mrs Thomson and her family which appeared in the Evening Chronicle in 1939 to commemorate
A German Heinkel He 111 medium bomber aircraft, shot down over Britain during World War Two. Circa : 1940 (Copyright Evening Gazette, Middlesbrough)
Newcastle Chronicle and Journal staff wearing gas masks as part of air raid precautions (A R P) training. Air Raid Wardens. Circa : 1940
