THE BRITISH HOME FRONT DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

Images in this album include: series entitled 'Wartime in the Scillies' - includes views of agriculture, Anti-Aircraft crew, landscapes, growing flowers and tomatoes, life boat, War Weapons Week display, Air Raid Precautions work, and series of portraits of merchant seamen, series of photographs of the India Office Library taken on 22 May 1941, photograph of the Kings Badge for Invalided Officers and Men, Mr. Francis, Professor Newall, Mr. Bruce Lockart, exterior view of the India Office, Captain Wady, series of photographs relating to the filming of ‘Footsteps in the Night’, by the Strand Film Company at Elstree on 12 May 1941, men working in tank factory?, series relating to 'The Great Synagogue' - includes views of a service taking place, and of the rubble caused by an air raid, series entitled 'A Girl Joins Up’ – following Mrs Vera Elliott as she begins war work in a war production factory (includes scenes of Mrs Elliott at home with her daughter before leaving, applying for war work, on the railway journey from Sunderland, scenes at the YWCA hostel, scenes at Mrs Elliott's billet, filling in forms and collecting uniform on arrival at factory, and working with machinery in the factory, photographs of various lorry drivers getting into their cabs (posed for MoI poster?), receiving office of Ministry of Information War Weapons Week (in foyer of MoI HQ at Senate House).