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Planes on The Ark Royal. Launcded 13 April 1937 Sunk by U-81, 14 November 1941 Picture taken circa 1st September 1939
British Expeditionary Force troops somewhere in Northern France near the beginning of the Second World War. Photo shows: Camouflaged British artillery in France to protect against enemy aerial
Soldiers in gas masks doing army training. World War Two had just broken out only three weeks earlier when this picture was taken. Picture taken 27th September 1939
Young men, possibly in line for call up, eyeing up the food as the kitchen staff walk past them. Picture taken 15th September 1939
Mothers and fathers at the Welcome Club with their children. The club was formerly Christ Church Weymouth. December 1939
Headmaster of St Michaels Church School, Buckingham Palace Road, giving children last minute instructions for tomorrows evacuation. 3rd September 1939
An ARP shelter in a haystack. 23rd October 1939
Air Raid Precautions, construction of air raid shelters. October 1938
The Graf Spee, before she was scuttled. Admiral Graf Spee was a Deutschland-class " Panzerschiff" (armored ship), nicknamed a " pocket battleship" by the British
Students help put sandbags in place at Manchester Grammar School. World War Two had begun just four weeks before. Picture taken 8th October 1939
The crew of the steamer Lochgoil who were landed at Swansea after the ship had suffered an explosion in the Bristol Channel. Picture taken 12th October 1939
Evacuees in Southampton, Hampshire. June 1940
Scene in Church Street, at Isle Abbotts Village in Taunton. Evacuee children surround village postman Bertie Adams hoping for parcels and letters from their London and South Coast homes
Children evacuated from London during World War II. Circa 1939
Mrs Rivers walking with evacuee children at St Pancras. They are returning from Suffolk. September 1939
Scene in the queue at Paddington Station, London, for the train to Wales. July 1944
Evacuees in London. Circa 1939
Children being evacuated from East Coast areas. 2nd June 1940
Evacuation scenes at Euston Station, London, boarding a train to Lancashire. July 1944
Evacuees at a London station. Circa 1939
Evacuees in Birmingham. June 1940
Villagers evacuate to make way for army manoeuvres in a South West county. 11th November 1943
British Balloon Command was established to protect cities and key targets such as industrial areas, ports and harbours. Balloons were intended to defend against dive bombers flying at heights up to
HMS Resolution pennant number: 09 was one of five Revenge-class battleships seen here at a fleet review prior to the second world war. Circa 1936
HMS Dorsetshire pennant number 40 a County-class heavy cruiser seen here prior to the second world war. Circa 1933
HMS Glasgow C21, a Southampton-class light cruiser, seen here prior to the second world war. Circa September 1937
HMS Barham was a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship seen here transiting the Suez Canal. Circa January 1936
HMS Sunfish seen here shortly after re-floating of a sand bank in Sand Down Bay, Isle of Wight. 3rd March 1939
HMS Nelson (pennant number: 28) seen here at a fleet review prior to the second world war. Circa 1936
HMS Rodney pennant number 29 was one of two Nelson-class battleships seen here at a fleet review prior to the second world war. Circa 1936
HMS Cherwell a Royal Navy fishery protection trawler seen here docking at Victoria Dock, Aberdeen. 12th March 1936. During the forthcoming war the boat was used as a harbour boom defence vessel
Still more Canadians arrive safely in England. (Picture) Cheering Scottish Canadians aboard their transport on arrival. 19th December 1939
The first Canadian contingent lands at Hong Kong. Hong Kongs G. OThe first Canadian contingent lands at Hong Kong. Hong Kongs G.O.C Major General C.M Maltby, talking to the Canadian O.C (right)
Canadian troops land in Britain. Yesterday the leading Division of the Canadian Army, strongly escorted across the ocean and guarded by our main battle fleet
British Expeditionary Force troops somewhere in Northern France near the beginning of the Second World War. Photo shows: Soldiers building gun emplacements November 1939
The Fairey Long Rang Monoplane, seen here at RAF Cranwell after its flight from RAF Northolt. 3rd December 1932
Author and playwright George Bernard Shaw (Left) seen here on the steps of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge with economist John Maynard Keynes. 15th June 1936
Author Dorothy L. Sayers, an author, best known for her Lord Peter Wimsey crime novels. 15th June 1935
Wheels being dipped in chemicals in preparation for their tyres for the production line at the Triumph car factory in Coventry. 23 September 1931
Female workers packing tins of Cherry Blossom boot polish at Cherry Blossom Boot Polish and Mansion Polish Works, Chiswick, London, 12 November 1931
One of the four iconic smokestack at Battersea Power Station, London. 17th January 1934
Worker feeding tobacco leaf in to a machine at the start of the cigarette manufacture in the Players cigarette factory, Nottingham. 20th April 1933
Female workers filling tins with Mansion Polish at Cherry Blossom Boot Polish and Mansion Polish Works, Chiswick, 12 November 1931
A worker casts components from molten metal at the new one million pound furnace at Fords automotive factory in Dagenham. 25th June 1934
Workers feeding tobacco leaf in to machines at the start of the cigarette manufacture in the Players cigarette factory, Nottingham. 20th April 1933
Female workers in the packing department of the Players cigarette factory, Nottingham. 20th April 1933
The new one million pound furnace at Fords automotive factory in Dagenham. 25th June 1934
A worker checks the molten metal at the new one million pound furnace at Fords automotive factory in Dagenham. 25th June 1934
