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World War Two. Mrs M Bryan dressed in protective clothing cleaning dirt and grease of a chassis just about to undergo an overhaul at the Chiswick Bus depot
Royal Air Force Women Wrens attached to the Fleet Air Arm, placing Wireless in Aircraft. These Girls are first Wrens to Fly. Picture taken at RN Air Station in England
World War Two, Grace Shults at a welding smiths work assembling farm wagons at Great Yeldham, Essex. 28th February 1944
Mrs Olive carson taking rifle training instruction from Instructor while two of her children look on British army woman lying on the ground aiming at a target March 1942
Plymouths squad of professional women navvies hard at work with the men pulling down bombed premises to make way for rebuilding in the city. One of the women is Mrs Vera Bennett (left). July 1947
British women working in a rope factory during the second world war March 1941 1940s
World War Two. Women employed by the LNER (London North Eastern Railway) to recover coal dropped by passing trains on the railway lines January 1943
World War Two. Mrs Ellen McShane at work on the Jarrow on Tyne ferry May 1942
Royal Air Force fighter pilots hold out their mugs whilst a Waaf girl pours them some tea
Guinness Flats in Stamford Hill, London, have got their own war factory. In the little club room hut behind the estate houswifes are busy all day long making torch batteries
World War Two. Mrs A Flanagan and Mrs E O Connor who are working as building labourers on reconstruction work at Ludgate Circus in London January 1943
World War Two. Women workers at HM Dockyards in Devonport, Plymouth using the drilling machine to drill holes in ships steel plates October 1945
High up on the tottering wall, Lydia Walker steps across the gap aided by Betty Baker. Both are working with the two teams of women clearing up the ruins of Plymouth
Wrens being fitted with demob clothes at the end of World War Two 1945
World War Two. Mrs Hughes changing a horses shoe while working as a blacksmith during the war march 1941
Plymouths team of women navvies completing their Blitz-time ambition - worked side by side with men before, but this time, with one of their team of six acting as supervisor
WW2 Female painters at work on a railway bridge in Sheffield. Women are now fully qualified painters and gangers with the LNER
Airwomen buying fruit at an Indian fruit market are given advice by members of the W A A F police
River emergency service during WW2 in London September 1939
Wrens In December 1941 it was decided that women in the UK between the ages of 20 to 30 should be called up for military service
Wrens with gun during WW2
A merchant seaman in WW2 sitting on the deck of a ship. Circa 1941
Duchess of Kent in a Wrens Uniform The Duchess of Kent helps a new recruit sign up. One of the important issues raised by the WW2 was the role of women
Merchant Seamen during WW2 giving the "Thumbs Up"Circa 1941Merchant Seamen during WW2 giving the " Thumbs Up" Circa 1941
Women workers peeling thousands of onions that will eventually be pickled in jars destined for household dinner tables, at a factory in the North East of England during the Second World War November
Land Army girls give a hand in collecting the first tomato crop at North Hubbards nursery in Essex during the Second World War June 1942
A woman on Austerity holiday give a hand in collecting the first tomato crop at North Hubbards nursery in the Lea Valley, Essex during the Second World War June 1942
Landgirl Miss Betty McCarthy picking some large tomatoes from a greenhouse in Lea Valley, Hertfordshire during the Second World War They will be sent to canteens at munitions factories as
A woman laying down spare clothes at a collection point to be used for others who need them during the Second World War April 1941
Girls of the Womens Land Army (Pests Department) are emplyed in S. Wales as rat catchers. Girls counting the days " bag". March 1944 P000644
Majorie Hale of Corham, Wiltshire aged 3, the youngest child worker in Britain pictured milking a cow on the family farm. October 1940
From all England 1, 000 Girl Guides have volunteered for a Commando" course so that they may follow with a healing hand in the wake of the Allied armies of liberation in Europe
A nurse goes round the Hop Fields to see if there are any complaint such as sores and cuts They are looked after on the spot or told to go and see the doctor. September 1941
Rope making: Off to another hawser. The signals is given and the rope begins to turn as it makes its way along the rope walk railway. January 1944 P004300
Land girls research job. April 1942 P003952
Robot Plane damage at East Lane, Walworth. Firemen and helpers holding up the floor of building whilst rescue workers below get out casualty. June 1944 P009369
At prayer in the fields. Miss Eileen Foot, girl shepherdess of Almondsbury, near Bristol, pauses during her work, to offer a prayer. She has a two fold war job
Women learning to weld. September 1942 P009188
Women Decorators. They fetch and carry their own ladders etc. March 1940 P003940
A huge coil of rope weighing 30tons and 720 feet in length. It is 18 inches in circumference. It is used for Admiralty salvage work
Rope making at a London factory. A huge coil of rope weighing three and a half tons and 720 feet in length and is 18 inches in circumference
Crowds cheering Ministers at Downing Street. 29th August 1939
A woman working at Wisbech Smedleys cannery takes a bite out of one of the ten tons of carrots gathered and ready to be canned during the Second World War October 1943
Women firefighters in action. 23rd January 1941
American A. S. C Facility visit. American soldiers getting ready to remove 4000lbAmerican A.S.C Facility visit. American soldiers getting ready to remove 4000lb bombs chat to land girls in the English countryside. 19th February 1944
Control room of a Superintendant Station. Push buttons are used as fire appliances are sent off to jobs. 17th October 1940
Britains men and women of steel. Steel works of Britain producing engines, guns, armour and many other products for the war effort
ATS girls at a Welsh Anti aircraft gun site are watching their fuel target. From small coal which they mix with cement, they make coal bricks