THE BRITISH HOME FRONT DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

Images in this album include: scenes in the stencilling and painting shop of a munitions factory – painting bomb and shell cases, sequence of photographs of clothing being unloaded into a warehouse, repairman works on repairing cables, series of photographs following journalist Santiago Bernardi including photographs taken near Big Ben and also those taken with General Sikorski, a photograph of nurses loading/unloading children into/from Maidstone ARP ambulance, short series relating to a church, photograph of a painting or tapestry of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at their Coronation, series of photographs regarding the Stepney ARP/First Aid Post - includes stretcher rescue, use of stirrup pump, nurses attending a patient and views of the Medical Officer, series relating to Stepney Borough Youth Committee - ARP ‘BB’ cadets, PT in drill hall, boxing, snooker, rifle drill, girls dormitory, committee meeting, sewing, watching a film, refreshments, clothes exchange/jumble sale, female exercise class, reading, photographs of Santiago Bernardi and various dignitaries and views of various people at the Argentine Embassy?, two photographs of a cap badge of the Royal Observer Corps - ‘Forewarned is Forearmed’, portrait of a radio operator?, good series relating to shopping – bakery section of department store (Swan & Edgar’s?), cake counter, preparing meals for café/restaurant, Lyon’s Café interior (including view of band), butcher's department, eating at tables (Lyon’s menu in view), baking supplies/groceries, and florist's department, short series of photographs relating to a performance of a play or pantomime at a large theatre (in London?), more photographs of Swan and Edgar's department store - looking in shop window, good shots of the butcher’s department, views in the bookshop, in general groceries, in the millinery department and in linens, and a good view of the interior of the shop showing the escalators and various departments, photograph of a lady knitting, a radio broadcaster in action, woman operating machinery, bomb damage, more photographs of women operating machinery, photograph of a street sand container for use on fires, views of Queen Anne Street in West London, photographs of a Belgian soldier reading newspaper 'La Belgique Independante', a view of the ‘British Tanks in Action’ exhibition held at Charing Cross, photographs of bomb damage to a church or cathedral, various views of a table-top globe, views in a cod liver oil factory including the production line, packing and delivery.