THE BRITISH HOME FRONT DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

Images in this album include: photographs of a man at a desk in his office, (perhaps at home in the country house featured in album 44 (D 8400 - D 8575)), series of photographs of women at work in a shell factory, showing the manufacture of large shells for use by the Navy, two photographs showing drawings of flags of various countries (obviously all black and white and several flags featured in each photograph), series of photographs entitled ‘Schoolgirl into Nurse’, which includes views of frog dissection in physiology class and anatomy lectures, showing that pre-nursing training can start at school, two photographs showing members of the Fulham ambulance station making camouflage netting, a series of photographs of drawings of flags, portrait photographs of Flt Lt Hubert Griffith outside the Ministry of Information building at Senate House, a photograph of a chart to show how Air Sea Rescue operates, two photographs showing a RAF pilot in the sea being rescued by a naval craft, photographs of the Venezuelan flag flying outside the Ministry of Information, a series of photograph of working mothers and the women who look after their children while they are at work, photographs of pages from the book ‘Reichstags-Handbuch 1938’, photograph of a man holding a Tommy gun, series of photographs entitled ‘Belgians Train in England’, showing views of Beligian paratroops doing PT and practising jumping on 'chute apparatus', series entitled ‘From Luxury Trade to Lorry Driving’, showing views of women working as lorry drivers transporting parts to RAF and Royal Ordnance Factory depots (most photographs show Mrs Enid Kathleen Plummer relaxing in her garden with her dogs!), series of photographs of the ‘Bread into Battle’ exhibition at Charing Cross, (D 8723 features the photograph of a hand holding a piece of bread - D 8374).