War Effort Collection (page 2)

Miss Edith Care of Evesham. Once a waitress, but now working for the ATS (The Auxiliary Territorial Service ) at the Western Command Ordinance Factory. Picture taken 5th November 1942

Picture shows Joyce Richardson, a munitions worker. She is pouring a liquid down a glass tube. Picture taken 27th December 1942

Volunteer harvesters holds a service and prayer in the harvest field at Wylam, Northumberland as their day of work comes to a close

These mill workers were called out of pubs, cinemas and dance halls on Saturday night to put in a full weekends work at four Lancashire Mills

Women at work at a munitions factory during the Second World War. Circa 1941

Recruits of the Womens Land Army get work in the fields near Torquay, South Devon during the Second World War. 30th August 1940

Twelve children are looking after the sixty plots at the only remaining garden of the London Childrens Garden Fund, Gt. Sutton Street, Clerkenwell, EC. All the other gardens have been bombed

Wings for Victory display in Central Manchester during the Second World War. 23rd March 1943

RAF Lancaster bomber on display in Trafalgar Square for Wings for Victory week, with cleaners in foreground. March 15th 1943

Lending a hand on the land. Scene at Blunham, Bedfordshire. Volunteer agriculture camp, where war workers on holiday are spending Easter working on the land

Women Road Painters, 1941. Women doing mens jobs, painting the kerb white so it can be seen during the blackout in World War Two

Land girls on their way home from the field in military area East Anglia The crops have to be harvested within fourteen days circa 1942

WW2 Female painters at work on a railway bridge in Sheffield. Women are now fully qualified painters and gangers with the LNER. Circa 1941

Land girl plowing field with tractor in Berkshire. November 1940

Land girls haymaking wearing swimming costumes as they work circa 1942

Women railway workers clean out a steam engine boiler during WW2. 1942

Women during WW2 - Kathleen Joyce has 28 days Agricultural Leave and is helping with the harvest at a Home Counties farm. The harvest is stated by farmers to be a record one. circa 1940

Women work on the production line of Hawker Hurricane aircraft during WW2. circa 1942

Women take over the job of building houses - 1941 during WW2

WW2 Women Engine Cleaners at work circa 1940

Women during War - girls of the Womens Land Army giving a demonstration of how to stack hay for the winter, from the Scenes at Farm & Country Life Exhibition on the town-moor Newcastle WW2 circa 1940

Mrs Village an LNER railway worker signals to a train during WW2. 1941

Hawker Typhoon fighter aircraft for the Royal Air Force in full production at an aircraft factory in the West Country during WW2 1944

An army search light crew scans the night sky for enemy aircraft during WW2. circa 1942

Women Shoemakers during WW2 in England as part of the war effort circa 1940

Land girls testing a new variety of corn on a trial ground near Hatfield circa 1942

Girls on a north west of England balloon barrage site join in morning prayers. WW2 1942

Mrs Christina Axworthy the first woman wagon examiner on the railway. WW2 1943

Womens war work April 1943 Female office worker

Women from the Fire Watching Service in Falmouth Cornwall in their uniforms and tin helmets during WW2. 1941

Two women touring London in a mobile information van give directions to Australian soldiers on leave in the city. 1940 WW2

Women scrap locators from the Ministry of Works prepare metal for recycling. WW2

WaFs on an RAF base wheel out their bicycles at the end of their shifts. They were issued with bikes to save fuel. Picture taken in 1942

Women working in a barrage balloon factory haul a section into position. WW2 1943

A mobile laundry service working from the back of a lorry accepts more washing during WW2 Circa 1944

Workers at the Royal Ordinance factory at Chorley in Lancashire destroy shells at the end of WW2. The cordite is removed from 6 pounder shell cases. 1945

WW2 Topsham Shipyard where this wooden boat was built by 60 people in 100 days 1944

ATS who run the first army bakery under the supervision of the R. A. S. C
ATS who run the first army bakery under the supervision of the R.A.S.C. parade in their white kitchen uniforms during WW2 1943

Women fire fighters from Erith Kent walk beside their trailer pump during WW2 1942

Women of the ATS who repaired army vehicles at a REME workshop during WW2. 1944 Retro1

A woman in a Ministry of Supply munitions depot works on the catapillar track of a tank during WW2 1941

German women recycle bricks to help rebuild Berlin after WW2

Women pack cans of food to be sent to troops in Europe during WW2 1944

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

WW2 St Helens Church Worcester May 44 being used as a YMCA canteen

Hairdressers carry on working in an underground air raid shelter during WW2

British pilot with a fractured thigh talks to a nurse from his hospital bed WW2 1941

WW2 Fulham Council workers wearing their respirators for ten minutes each day

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