THE BRITISH HOME FRONT DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

Images in this album include: series entitled ‘Front Line Farm’ following a farm in Dover whose fields run right up to the White Cliffs (see also album 99), series entitled ‘British Boy’ following George Metcalfe in his day as a service engineer in an electro-acoustic factory, testing amplifiers etc., also good shots of family life, taking photos of his friend, at a dance, at the ATC Christmas pantomime, in ATC training sessions, visit to New Theatre to see the Sadler’s Wells ballet company, flight training, and fire watching, another photograph posed by models for the MoI VD exhibition, series entitled ‘Colonial Exhibition Tours Britain’ (see also album 99), a photograph of two Home Guards, series entitled ‘Feeding Silage to Stock’ including photographs of the transportation of silage from silos to cattle troughs and views of cattle eating, short series entitled ‘Ministry of Agriculture Calf Rearing Scheme’, series entitled ‘Chinese Mission to Great Britain’ includes visits to shipyard, steel works, Durham University, Durham Cathedral, Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, Wholesale Co-Operative Society, various luncheons/receptions, a press conference and lunch at the MoI (this sequence features 60 photographs), series entitled ‘Fuel and Power Exhibition at Charing Cross’ to encourage people to save coal (exhibition entitled ‘Black Diamonds’), series entitled ‘Feeding Hay to In-Calf Heifers’, series entitled ‘Lord Woolton Gives an Interview’: photographs of Lord Woolton (Minister for Reconstruction) being interviewed by Howard Marshall, series ‘Landgirl’s Day’ – follows 29 year old Rosalind Cox in Bignor, West Sussex (location identified by her relative Nicholas Cox on 6 September 2002) on a typical day – working on grain dryer, filling sacks with grain, stacking/transporting hay bales (see also album 101).