THE BRITISH HOME FRONT DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

Images in this album include: series entitled ‘Australian Soprano Sings for Charity’ (see also album 75) - a photograph of Austra Bourne with her pianist Ivor Newton and flautist John Amadio, series entitled ‘Fire Guard Exhibition’ features panels for this exhibition photographed outside, sequence of photographs featuring Ministry of Health posters (particularly relating to VD) on the outside of the Ministry of Health building, two photos of Luzac & Co., Oriental Booksellers and Publishers, a portrait photograph of Rev R R Williams (in Home Guard uniform?), series of photographs of an exhibition of war pictures by South African, New Zealand and UK artists held at National Portrait Gallery, short sequence of photographs relating to an exhibition about the changing role of women between 1800 and 1943 held at the National Gallery, series entitled ‘Anglo-Spanish Art Exhibition’, includes views of the Spanish Charge d'Affaires, and the Mexican Minister in London at the exhibition, as well as the actor John Mills and his wife Hayley Bell looking at a painting, series entitled ‘Modern Glass’ following an exhibition held at the Technology Department of Sheffield University showing advances in glass manufacture, including insulators, toughened glass, glass bricks, a dress made from glass fibres and radio valves and so on, series entitled ‘Student Nurse’ featuring Joyce Collier student nurse at St Helier Hospital in Carshalton, including views in the wards and operating theatre, in nurses' quarters and at meal time, as well as full-length portraits of a nurse wearing uniform (see also album 70), series entitled ‘Fuel Transport Exhibition’ held in a railway carriage at a station - good views of the interior and exterior of the exhibition (one of the panels includes the photograph of a bucket of coal featured in album 56), series entitled ‘The Seven Seas Club’ which is a club or hostel in Edinburgh run by a Dane and his British wife for merchant and naval seamen of the United Nations, portraits of various individuals (most un-named), including Harry Gordon and John Dodds (MoI personnel?), series entitled ‘MP Visits Blitzed Borough of Bermondsey’ – Miss Irene Ward and Mrs Kuo (Chairman of London Chinese Women’s Relief Association) visit an ambulance station and solarium, where medical treatment is available free, a nursery where women doing war work can leave their children, and also view bomb damage in Bermondsey, series entitled ‘Chinese Convalescent Home’ featuring interior and exterior views of the house and garden, showing seamen convalescing, also a good photograph of the chef, a posed Ministry of Information portrait of a nurse and a child patient, series of photographs showing how children’s books have become smaller during the war, series entitled ‘Australian MPs Visit Britain’ (see also album 77).