The Korean War

THE BRITISH HOME FRONT DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

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  • D 23038 - D 23193
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  • object category: Black and white
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photographs

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Images in this album include: series entitled 'Mobile Cinema Hut' showing various aspects of the interior of a mobile cinema hut (see also album 127), series entitled 'Making Shoes for the Wrens' following work at a factory in the Midlands, including members of the WRNS visiting the shoe factory, three photographs of an unidentified naval officer, series entitled 'Instrument Makers' following makers of precision instruments at a factory in Camberwell, series entitled 'London Fashion Designers' following work mainly at the fashion house of Norman Hartnell (a member of the Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers) showing the designing, production and modelling of dresses, series entitled 'Country Bus' following life in Oswestry, Shropshire, including good views of the Bailey Head open air market and people waiting for the bus, three photographs of a George Cross medal (photographed on a glass table so a shadow is created on fabric beneath), series entitled 'RAF Plan for Educational and Vocational Training Before Demobilisation' featuring RAF and WAAF personnel in carpentry and joinery classes and WAAFs in secretarial training classes, series entitled 'Boy Drummer Makes Swing Records' featuring Victor Feldman recording at HMV, series entitled 'Training Queen's Nurses' following the training of district nurses at the Queen's Institute of District Nursing, including practicing injections on a potato!, series entitled 'ATS Domestic Science Course' following events at a full-time, fortnightly course in Home Management run by the Army Education Scheme and LCC at Peckham and Notting Hill, series entitled 'A Modern Bakery' following work at 'Wonder Bakery' in Wood Green, London, including good views of huge vats of dough, loaf tins on conveyors and so on, photo entitled ' Chess in the train' showing two men playing chess on a portable chess board, photograph entitled 'The Makings of a Modern Newspaper' showing an editor at his desk, series entitled 'National Physical Laboratory' which follows work carried out in various areas of Physics at the laboratory in Teddington, Middlesex (see also album 129).

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