THE BRITISH HOME FRONT DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

Images in this album include: series of photographs following of a wren of HMS EAGLET, including views of the operations rooms, wrens relaxing - playing rounders and listening to a colleague playing the accordion, inspection, pay day, and a visit to the supply ship to collect towels, shoes and the like, photographs of the Swiss trade delegation in London, photographs of a Jewish feast or dinner, Dias statue on exterior of South Africa House, photographs of the Ministry of Information Women's War Work exhibition in Luton on 31 March 1942, including demonstrations of various machinery by female war workers, photographs of the Warships Week stand at the Ministry of Information, photographs of interiors of the ‘Eccentric Club’ and ‘Travellers Club’, including good views of the dining room, billairds room, writing room and card room, photographs of the Argentine ambassador Don Miguel Angel Carcano giving a mobile kitchen to the WVS of Tunbridge Wells on behalf of Senora Jovita Mansilla de Bemberg, series of photographs of Ministry of Agriculture exhibition furniture taken on 3 April 1942, photographs of AP Arosemena, the Charge d’Affaires of Ecuador and of Dr Francisco A Figuerua, the Charge d’Affaires of Guatemala, photographs of Lieutenant AA Proberaj of the Free Jugoslav Army reading a newspaper, photographs of a Greek newspaper, Yugoslavian newspaper and Dutch newspaper, series of photographs of Polish? sailors - various scenes on board, including preparing food in the galley and on deck with ropes, mealtime for the merchant navy, photographs relating to members of the Greek community in the UK, including views inside the Greek Orthodox church, mealtime, listening to the radio, Greek barber shop, Greek pub/café (good shot of men playing cards), and Greek men joining the merchant navy, a series of photographs entitled ‘Old rags into new cloth’ (D 7429 – D 7465) which focusses on a salvage depot for clothes and includes various scenes in a large warehouse, including ‘shaking machine’ which gets rid of dust, ladies cutting fabric into strips, and views in the carbonising shed.