THE BRITISH HOME FRONT DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

Images in this album include: series ‘London Buses in Wartime’ - driver and conductor prepare to leave garage, Victoria bus station, conductors on bus (male and female), female recruits at a training centre including exams and lectures, and servicing (washing and changing tyres etc.) a bus, a series of photographs of women working in a tin hat/tin helmet factory, British Museum exterior views and two photographs of a reading room desk used by Marx and Lenin, a selection of photographs (D 4680-4699) relating to bomb damage in London around the Druce's furnishing store in Baker Street (see note below), a crowd of people looking at/listening to someone speak, men in a pub, a series of photographs of derelict cars in a field to prevent the landing of enemy aircraft, sequence showing the Greek Prime Minister visiting the Ministry of Information and inspecting Home Guard, a series of photographs of the Court Post Office at Buckingham Palace – telephonist, switch board, postman and bag, air raid alarm, post office counter, staff of court post office in home guard, telegraphist, court post master, general views, entrance to court post office, and mail leaving Buckingham Palace, ‘Saying Goodbye’ – posed Ministry of Information photograph of serviceman and wife embracing (features the female model as also featured in albums 6 and 12 - D 1042-1303 and D 2251-2479, as 'Mrs Day' and 'girl in library'), series relating to RAF Bomber Command - pilots in cockpit (view looking up to face from waist/feet), navigator, interior of aircraft, view of service crew examining undercarriage, flight crew walking across airfield, WAAF marking targets on table map of fields, RAF crew during briefing, on control tower to look for returning aircraft, in control room, questioned by intelligence officers, crew on back of lorry after raid, and view of a Stirling bomber, with nose art of a triceratops, (this sequence was taken by Cecil Beaton and features 149 Squadron at Mildenhall, including D 4737, featuring Pilot David Donaldson), portrait of Mr Leigh Ashton, Foreign Office documents, ‘American Boy meets British Girl’ – story of a love affair between Robert L Ames of the Civilian Technical Training Corps and Norah 'Mickey' McMullen, a Post Office clerk, City Temple Church showing bomb damage, Army officer, hand clutching money (MoI photograph in preparation for an exhibition about savings?), series of photographs of a Harvest Festival in a damaged London church, Mr A Greenwood, Mr Douglas Grant, Miss D M Dolison, Free French officers/British admirals (as D 4606 etc. in album 22), King Peter of Yugoslavia visits the Ministry of Information and inspects Home Guard, Free French and Polish officers look at a map, and British and Belgian pilots prepare to leave for an offensive sweep over occupied territory.