THE BRITISH HOME FRONT DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

Images in this album include: series of photographs entitled ‘Allies Build British Ships’ (continued from album 43), featuring men from Norway, Belgium and Poland working to help build and repair British ships - includes views of naval guns being mounted, splicing wire ropes, and life at ‘Fishponds’ hostel for Allied workmen, series of photographs of a Ministry of information exhibition held in Leicester to encourage people to engage in war work (the 'Great Arms Drive') (D 8430 and D 8434 show display panels featuring photographs of sisters Mrs Wyatt and Mrs Hart from album 41, D 7833 - D 8067, D 8433 shows the cross-section drawing of a tank being used in a display panel), series of photographs entitled ‘Submarine Protocol’ of a letter written by Ribbentrop, 23 November 1936, series of photos relating to the members of the Women's Land Army at work on a Cambridgeshire fen, includes good views of ploughing and tractors, small series of photographs relating to a MoI reception for neutral diplomats, including photographs of Brendan Bracken the Spanish Press Attache, the Bolivian Charge d'Affaires and the Iraqi Charge d'Affaires, photographs of a woman working on a large piece of machinery, series of photographs of Sr Don C Montero de Bustamante (the Charge d’Affaires for Uruguay) at home, short series of photographs relating to carpenter Frank Tanner, showing how his peactime work of making furniture has been adapted during wartime and he now shapes propellors, series of photographs relating to Chinese students at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) in London, series of photographs of the Grow Your Own Food exhibition at Charing Cross, series of photographs relating to the Queen’s Hospital for Children in London: sacks of stamps are collected from America and in Britain to go to a dealer for cash, there are also good photographs of the cots or beds that have been bought by the sale of such stamps, series entitled ‘Chinese in England’ features photographs of women working at the Chinese Embassy (includes them knitting in the embassy air raid shelter), photograph of an ARP warden from Southwark, series of photographs relating to a boys club in Walworth, includes views of them playing chess and drinking tea (females are also featured in these photographs), two photographs of a newspaper seller outside Tottenham Court Road tube station, series photographs of Ministry of Information exhibition panels regarding the keeping of pigs, rabbits and hens for food, part of the ‘MoI Window Display Scheme’ in the foyer of MoI HQ at Senate House, sequence of photographs relating to a munitions-making exhibition in Wenley Ltd shop (location unknown), includes photographs of women actually making munitions in the exhibition, (D 8542 again features a display panel with photographs of Mrs Wyatt and Mrs Hart - see above D 8430), two portrait photographs of Mrs Harriet (Patsy) Fuller Hughes from Boston who serves breakfast at the American Red Cross Eagle Club dormitory every Saturday morning, series of photographs showing school children helping out with hoeing, planting crops and looking after the pigs owned by their school, the Ashwell Merchant Taylors’ School in Baldock, short series of photographs relating to the garden of a small country house (location and owner unknown).