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The remains of a German Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aircraft, shot down over the North-East of England. 16/08/1940
The Best-Kept Gardens contest for the Condercum Estate, Newcastle. Tenants brought to light a new angle on gardening - how to make the A R P Anderson shelter a thing of beauty
Work is pushed ahead on the group of ARP air raid shelters at the Vickers-Armstrong Scotswood works in Newcastle. 16/04/1939
A crowd of excited youngsters watched the delivery of the first consignment of ARP air raid shelters in the Two Ball Lonnen area of Newcastle. 28/02/1939
A family wearing gas masks go into an Anderson air raid shelter. 04/09/1939
Northumberland Home Guard units attend a St Georges Day service at St James Park, Newcastle, in 1944. 24/04/1944
The surface street air raid shelters in Glouster Street near Scotswood Road, Newcastle. 11/09/1946
Members of the Burma Star Association, veterans of the war with Japan, gathered at St Thomas Church in Newcastle Haymarket to pay tribute to comrades who died in the Far East
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
Newcastle Chronicle and Journal staff wearing gas masks as part of air raid precautions (A R P) training. Air Raid Wardens. Circa : 1940
Sixteen women and children were inside the surface air raid shelter nearest the camera when a heavy bomb exploded in the road about three feet from the outer wall
The surface street air raid shelters stand intact following a German raid on the North East. Circa: 1940
Wartime preparations at the Dental Hospital in Newcastle when students took part in a very different kind of drill - filling sandbags in case of air raids. 31/08/1939
The picture shows one of the first LDV Home Guard units to be formed in the North East. Many of the men are ex-servicemen and are seen on parade before going on duty at a barricade and other posts
By 1941 many Newcastle firms, like this one on City Road, were adopting 24 hour fire-watching with use of roof spotters. 14/01/1941
Waiters wearing gas masks during an exercise at the Royal Station Hotel, Newcastle during the Second World War. 2nd April 1941
Wartime gas masks were sold by Mr Harry Breckner from his shop in Crowtree Road, Sunderland. He sold 2, 000 in just four days, children bought them to use as space masks
Durham is prepared - work underway on an ARP scheme in Durham. 9th September 1939
Northumberland Colleries Fire and Rescue Brigade give a pre Second World War demonstration of firefighting at Cross House Farm, Houghton-le-Spring, for colliery and local authority officials
Newcastles comprehensive scheme for protecting the public during air attacks is still being extended. This picture shows a concrete shelter being constructed at Saville Place
A surface air raid shelter in a backyard which was undamaged when a bomb wrecked a house during a Sunday night raid on the North East. Resident Mrs Jordan was killed in the house. 30/07/1940
Residents of Links Avenue, Monkseaton, who decided to construct their own communal air raid shelter shortly before the start of the Second World War
The air raid shelters in The Side, Newcastle, which were being demolished. 20/04/1998
London Kids, children seen here playing in the street during the spring of 1941 Circa May 1941
German women doing their washing in cold water in a street beside a knocked out German scout car following the allied invasion of Berlin at the end of the Second World War. 3rd July 1945
Partisans of Athens, Greece who took on the job of preserving the citys water and electricity supplies when the Allies entered
Small boats which returned from Dunkirk to help with the rescue of stranded BEF forces, pass through London on route to their home towns. 10th June 1940
Fighting partisans of Greece, armed with modern weapons they have stolen from enemy soldiers they have killed, have smashed the feeling German forces on the roads through to the north during
The First Freight carrying glider to make the trans-Atlantic flight on its way to Britain from Canada, towed by an aircraft of RAF Transport Command during the Second World War. 4th July 1943
Norwegian pilots operating under the RAF Second Tactical Air Force on the Western front, pictured beside a Spitfire fighter aircraft after returning from a sweep over enemy terrority during
Survivors of a German Focke Wulf plane which was shot down are picked up by the boat from a British Ship during the Second World War. 28th December 1943
Volunteer women snipers of the Russian red Army R. Skrypnikova (right) and O. Bykova returning froma combat assignment during the Second World War. 21st November 1943
A demonstration by Mosquito fighters and Mustangs during an air display at a Royal Observer Corps official Stand Down ceremony at North Weald during the Second World War. 7th July 1945
The remains of a Focke Wulf Condor plane, also known as a Kurier, after it was attacked at point plank range by a Lockheed Hudson fighter aircraft of the Royal Air Force Coastal Command
A paratrooper hauling in the parachute attached to a container which has been dropped with arms and equipment for paratroops at a demonstration held by an Airborne Division during the Second World
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AG Meek on Albany Road, Roath, Cardiff, bomb damage in the 1940 s. *A SHOE business in its centenary year may be forced to close its founding shop to make way for a convenience store
Winston Churchill visit to Iceland on his return journey from his historic Atlantic meeting with President Roosevelt, pictured on 16th August 1941
Davenports Brewery head-quarters in Bath Row, Birmingham. 1st January, 1940
HAMBURG ON THE DAY OF ITS SURRENDER Minutes after surrender on May 3 1945 the city was devastated, apparently deserted. Huge concrete ack-ack fortresses stand amid ruined dock
An Avenue of Hamilear gliders and RAF Halifax towing aircraft ready for take off
Lord Louis Mountbatten, comes aboard in an uncoventional manner, circa March 1941
Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten and members of the Russian Military Mission watch a large scale demonstration of new aircraft types in the Eastern Command
Lord Louis Mountbatten with his wife Edwina at Buckingham Palace for an investiture ceremony. February 1943
Clothing: Fashion Men Wear Hats: Ascot Gold Cup Day. A contrast in headgear. August 1944
Vice Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia, speaking to officers and men of the 1st Squadron of the Indian Air Force at Imphal. June 1944
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia Command during a tour of the Arakan front in Burma. 1943
Envelopes being alphabetically sorted at the Unity Football Pools headquarters in Liverpool, in 1940. Unity Pools operated throughout the Second World War
