THE BRITISH HOME FRONT DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

Images in this album include: blessing of someone in church, Free French Corps Feminin, Mr Czarnomsky, Dr Feur Abend, Mr Robert Speight, Mr O Torp, 'MTC girls for America' - women of the Mechanised Transport Corps in their depot, repairing ambulances, and working on mobile canteens, series of portraits of a Holborn ARP warden, Commandant Thierry d’Argenlieu, posed photos of a member of the WRNS, Bishop Nicolai Veliminovitch, His Beatitude the Serb Patriarch Gavrilo, photograph of a London street showing people with gas masks, bomb damage to GPO HQ, King Edward St., London EC2, orders from Von Bulow and Von Fasbender, 1914, sequence of photographs showing children being evacuated from Bristol to Devon (including railway stations and train journey), preparing mail bags for despatch to Middle East, AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service) Firemen in London - views of training and control rooms, children playing, evacuees in Devon, various Air Marshals, various individuals - possibly Ministry of Information staff, 'Women Carpenters Then and Now' - series of photographs showing female carpenters at work, including lunchtime ‘concerts’, Scots Guard drummer, cinema in Ministry of Information building, Ministry of Home Security photograph showing Sarah Churchill with her gas mask, Battle of Britain operational diagrams, series of photographs of Civil Defence/Air Raid Precaution measures such as: white lines on road for blackout, temporary bus stop, bricked up buildings, extra walls for defence and hooded car head light (interior view).