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part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer
WOMEN'S WAR WORK: LIFE IN A SHELL FACTORY, ENGLAND, UK, 1942Mrs McFarland of 50 Barnsley Road, Wombwell travels 3 hours a day to work on a bar lathe, cutting bars for making shells at this factory, somewhere in Yorkshire.
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WOMEN'S WAR WORK: LIFE IN A SHELL FACTORY, ENGLAND, UK, 1942Two women spray paint bombs at a factory in Yorkshire. They are both wearing masks to protect them from the paint fumes. Behind them, other munitions workers can be seen manoeuvring the bombs into position ready for painting.
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SCHOOLGIRL INTO NURSE: MEDICAL TRAINING IN BRITAIN, 1942Girls busy at work in their physiology class at a school, somewhere in Britain. They are seated along several rows of laboratory benches, with tripods and microscopes visible on the bench tops. A teacher explains something to one of them.
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SCHOOLGIRL INTO NURSE: MEDICAL TRAINING IN BRITAIN, 1942In her physiology class, 18 year old Jane Upham dissects a frog to examine its nerve centre. This is part of her normal schoolroom training.
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ITALIAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN BRITAIN: EVERYDAY LIFE AT AN ITALIAN POW CAMP, ENGLAND, UK, 1945A group of Italian Prisoners of War, described in the original caption as the 'Stato Maggiore' or General Staff, relax at the N.144 workers camp, near London. Left to right, they are: Medical Officer Dr Salvatore Cirillo; Commander of the Camp, Colonel...
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GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN BRITAIN: EVERYDAY LIFE AT A GERMAN POW CAMP, UK, 1945German Prisoners of War listen to a concert given by some of their fellow PoWs, on the stage of the recreation hut at a PoW camp, somewhere in Britain. A Proscenium arch has been added to the stage, and the musicians are flanked by banners with the...
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GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN BRITAIN: EVERYDAY LIFE AT A GERMAN POW CAMP, UK, 1945German Prisoners of War help a farmer to harvest his crop of swedes on a farm near their PoW camp, somewhere in Britain. The farmer can be seen guiding his horse-drawn plough through the mud.
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part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer
GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN BRITAIN: EVERYDAY LIFE AT A GERMAN POW CAMP, UK, 1945A farmer talks to German Prisoners of War who are working for him on his farm near to the PoW camp, somewhere in Britain. The farmer has two horses beside him. The PoWs are wearing rubber 'sleeves' over their boots, to protect their legs and feet from...
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GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN BRITAIN: EVERYDAY LIFE AT A GERMAN POW CAMP, UK, 1945A general view of a tented PoW camp, somewhere in Britain. Several German Prisoners of War can be seen walking along the pathways between the tents. In the distance, the Nissen huts of the rest of the camp are just visible.
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GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN BRITAIN: EVERYDAY LIFE AT A GERMAN POW CAMP, UK, 1945German Prisoners of War pick swedes in a field near their PoW camp, somewhere in Britain. Two horses can also be seen in the field.
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GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN BRITAIN: EVERYDAY LIFE AT A GERMAN POW CAMP, UK, 1945German Prisoners of War mend boots and shoes at their PoW camp, somewhere in Britain. They are working in a Nissen hut which is being used as a cobbler's shop. The back wall of the hut has a mural painted on it.
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part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer
GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN BRITAIN: EVERYDAY LIFE AT A GERMAN POW CAMP, UK, 1945German Prisoners of War are examined by German doctors as they sit up in their beds in the 'ward' of the camp hospital at a PoW camp, somewhere in Britain. A fir wreath is suspended from the ceiling of the Nissen hut used which serves as the hospital,...
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GERMAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN BRITAIN: EVERYDAY LIFE AT A GERMAN POW CAMP, UK, 1945German Prisoners of War mend clothes in the tailor's shop of a PoW camp, somewhere in Britain. Suits are hanging up on the right of the photograph. One man is using a sewing machine. The back wall of the Nissen hut used as the tailor's shop has a...
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part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer
ITALIAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN BRITAIN: EVERYDAY LIFE AT AN ITALIAN POW CAMP, ENGLAND, UK, 1945Italian Prisoners of War sit at a table at an outpost of the N.144 workers camp near London. According to the original caption, the outposts allow 70 men to live nearer to their place of work. "The outposts are miniature camps, with refectories,...
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part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer
ITALIAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN BRITAIN: EVERYDAY LIFE AT AN ITALIAN POW CAMP, ENGLAND, UK, 1945Cooks at work in the kitchen of the N.144 Italian workers camp near London. Piles of buckets can be seen stacked up towards the right of the photograph.
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part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer
ITALIAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN BRITAIN: EVERYDAY LIFE AT AN ITALIAN POW CAMP, ENGLAND, UK, 1945A general view of carpenters at work in the N.144 Italian workers camp near London. According to the original caption, "there is a set team of carpenters who work at the maintenance of everything to do with the camp". Among the men are Giuseppe...
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part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer
ITALIAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN BRITAIN: EVERYDAY LIFE AT AN ITALIAN POW CAMP, ENGLAND, UK, 1945Camp barbers Alessandro Matteucci, Pasquale Macario and Michele Manfredonia cut the hair of three customers in the barber's shop at the N.144 Italian workers camp near London.
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ITALIAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN BRITAIN: EVERYDAY LIFE AT AN ITALIAN POW CAMP, ENGLAND, UK, 1945At the N.144 Italian workers camp, near London, the famous 'Seven Dwarves' orchestra pose with their instruments on the stage under a sign reading 'Olimpia'. Amongst the musicians are: Fernando Monticelli, Maestro Aldo Morbido, Salvatore Corsaro, Matteo...
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ITALIAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN BRITAIN: EVERYDAY LIFE AT AN ITALIAN POW CAMP, ENGLAND, UK, 1945Camp chaplain, Padre Vincenzo Bazzoli, stands in front of the altar at the N.144 Italian workers camp, near London. According to the original caption, the altar was made by the prisoners themselves.
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ITALIAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN BRITAIN: EVERYDAY LIFE AT AN ITALIAN POW CAMP, ENGLAND, UK, 1945Luigi Zaccani and camp chief Vezio Deon Cardin inspect the "radiophonic plant" at the N.144 Italian workers camp near London. According to the original caption, this plant it connected to a "system of amplifiers scattered about everywhere, in the...
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part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer
ITALIAN PRISONERS OF WAR IN BRITAIN: EVERYDAY LIFE AT AN ITALIAN POW CAMP, ENGLAND, UK, 1945Italian Prisoners of War stand beside their beds in the large warehouse-like dormitory at the N.144 workers camp near London. According to the original caption "the camp is sub-divided into 5 large dormitories in which are found 2-tiered bunks. These...
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AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN: LIFE ON GEORGE CASELY'S FARM, DEVON, ENGLAND, 1942George Casely and his daughter Sylvia inspect the hay which will partly replace imported feed for their cows' winter diet.
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INTERNATIONAL PICCADILLY: OVERSEAS TROOPS IN LONDON, 1942Captain Z. Dunczewski (left) and Lieutenant Z. Wittersz of the Polish Air Force enjoy a stroll around Piccadilly Circus. Behind them, illuminated advertisements advertise Bovril and Schweppes tonic water, and a clock features the words 'Guinness Time'...
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INTERNATIONAL PICCADILLY: OVERSEAS TROOPS IN LONDON, 1942Lieutenant Octave Veiheyen of the Netherlands Army asks directions from a London policeman. A bus can be seen travelling past behind them.
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INTERNATIONAL PICCADILLY: OVERSEAS TROOPS IN LONDON, 1942Polly, the Piccadilly Circus flower seller, sells roses to Lieutenant L D Spode (centre, smoking a cigar) as Major E M Levine looks on. According to the original caption Polly stayed in London throughout the blitz and the men are from an American...
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AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN: LIFE ON GEORGE CASELY'S FARM, DEVON, ENGLAND, 1942Mrs Casely washes milk bottles for the local milk round (delivered by her Joan) in the sun outside the cow shed on her husband's farm in Devon.
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AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN: LIFE ON GEORGE CASELY'S FARM, DEVON, ENGLAND, 1942Joan Casely tethers the cows before milking in the cow shed on her father's farm, somewhere in Devon.
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DRAINAGE OF LAND: PREPARATIONS FOR AGRICULTURE, CLYST MARSHES, DEVON, 1942A Land Girl looks out of the doorway of the cab of the large drag-line excavator that is being used to create ditches to improve drainage along this stretch of land. The land will then be available for arable used and to graze animals. One of the women...
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INTERNATIONAL PICCADILLY: OVERSEAS TROOPS IN LONDON, 1942A wide aerial view of Piccadilly Circus, showing Eros boarded up and covered in war savings posters. A London double-decker bus can be seen in the bottom right hand corner, travelling just in front of a group of overseas service personnel. More troops...
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DRAINAGE OF LAND: PREPARATIONS FOR AGRICULTURE, CLYST MARSHES, DEVON, 1942Three drag line excavating machines are working on the scheme to drain this area of marshland in Devon in order to make it suitable for cultivation. Only one machine is visible in the photograph, the words 'Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries Land...
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part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer
DRAINAGE OF LAND: PREPARATIONS FOR AGRICULTURE, CLYST MARSHES, DEVON, 1942Two Land Girls stand in the doorway of the large drag-line excavator that is being used to create ditches to improve drainage along this stretch of land. The land will then be available for arable used and to graze animals. One of the women is pointing...
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part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer
AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN: LIFE ON MOUNT BARTON FARM, DEVON, ENGLAND, 1942A farm worker loads hedge clippings into a tractor trailer with a pitchfork. Piles of clippings will be placed on the fields to be burnt and then will be raked into the soil. This will improve the fertility of the soil. This method of burning...
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AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN: LIFE ON MOUNT BARTON FARM, DEVON, ENGLAND, 1942George Blackler fills up a Fordson tractor with petrol at Mount Barton farm. The original caption states that although petrol must be used economically, it is not stinted when used for food production.
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AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN: LIFE ON MOUNT BARTON FARM, DEVON, ENGLAND, 1942George Blackler ploughs a field by tractor on Mount Barton farm. Behind him, a dog oversees the proceedings.
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AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN: LIFE ON MOUNT BARTON FARM, DEVON, ENGLAND, 1942A farm worker cuts down hedges with a sickle on land surrounding Mount Barton farm. The hedges were previously used to shelter cattle, but as the land has been converted to arable use, they are no longer needed. The cuttings will be burnt to provide...
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AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN: LIFE ON MOUNT BARTON FARM, DEVON, ENGLAND, 1942A farm worker spreads manure from a horse-drawn cart onto fields on Mount Barton farm.
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AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN: LIFE ON GEORGE CASELY'S FARM, DEVON, ENGLAND, 1942Sylvia and Joan Casely carry a large milk churn out of the cattle shed. The churns will be taken by lorry to the local town for sale.
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AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN: LIFE ON GEORGE CASELY'S FARM, DEVON, ENGLAND, 1942George Casely and his daughters Joan and Sylvia saw logs in the sunshine on their Devon farm.
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AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN: LIFE ON GEORGE CASELY'S FARM, DEVON, ENGLAND, 1942George Casely and his daughter Sylvia make silage in the sunshine on their farm in Devon. George is standing on top of the silo as Sylvia, standing on top of the hay cart, passes a forkful of hay up to him.
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AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN: LIFE ON MOUNT BARTON FARM, DEVON, ENGLAND, 1942Farm workers at Mount Barton Farm take a break for lunch in the fields. In the background is a young girl, and in the foreground a young boy, probably Farmer Hoare's son Colin, pours a cup of tea from a bottle for his fellow worker.
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AGRICULTURE IN BRITAIN: LIFE ON MOUNT BARTON FARM, DEVON, ENGLAND, 1942George Hingston thatches a silo on Mount Barton Farm. Starting from the bottom, he rolls the straw matting round. The thatch is attached with hazel pegs.
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WASTE LAND RECLAIMED: AGRICULTURE IN HUNTINGDONSHIRE, ENGLAND, 1942Buckeye Excavator or Digger in action. This large machine is being driven by a farm worker and will be used to make foot-wide drainage ditches to improve the drainage of this heavy clay soil and thus return the land to cultivation.
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WASTE LAND RECLAIMED: AGRICULTURE IN HUNTINGDONSHIRE, ENGLAND, 1942A farm worker edges a new dyke on reclaimed land in Huntingdonshire. Behind him, the drag line excavator can be seen. Ditches or dykes are being dug to improve the drainage of this heavy clay soil, and so return this previously derelict land to...
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WASTE LAND RECLAIMED: AGRICULTURE IN HUNTINGDONSHIRE, ENGLAND, 1942Three Land Girls harvest flax in a field which had been derelict the previous year. One woman drives the tractor as the two others sit at the rear on the flax-pulling 'trailer'.
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WASTE LAND RECLAIMED: AGRICULTURE IN HUNTINGDONSHIRE, ENGLAND, 1942'Speed the Plough' Farm in Huntingdonshire had been derelict, but is now being run successfully by the Huntingdon War Agricultural Committee. Here farm foreman Mr R Musey carries out some wilt cutting on the dykes.
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AMERICANS IN BRITAIN: THE WORK OF NO 121 (EAGLE) SQUADRON RAF, ROCHFORD, ESSEX, AUGUST 1942Flying Officer K M Osbourne shares his experience of a 'dog fight' with his Commanding Officer, Squadron Leader W B Williams DFC and other members of the Eagle Squadron, following a fighter sweep. Left to right, they are: Flight Sergeant Bill Kelly,...
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WASTE LAND RECLAIMED: AGRICULTURE IN HUNTINGDONSHIRE, ENGLAND, 1942A close-up view of a drag line excavator at work on previously derelict land in Huntingdonshire. The heavy clay of the soil meant that many farms in this area had gone out of cultivation. This excavator is being used to create a new dyke to improve...
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part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer
WASTE LAND RECLAIMED: AGRICULTURE IN HUNTINGDONSHIRE, ENGLAND, 1942A new ditch is being made by a drag excavator, on previously derelict farmland in Huntingdonshire, in order to improve drainage and return this land to cultivation. The excavator can be seen in the back left hand corner.
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AMERICANS IN BRITAIN: THE WORK OF NO 121 (EAGLE) SQUADRON RAF, ROCHFORD, ESSEX, AUGUST 1942Men of No 121 (Eagle) Squadron stand and wait for their call to action on the grass at Rochford airfield. Left to right they are: Flying Officer K M Osbourne, Squadron Leader W B Williams DFC (the Commanding Officer), an unidentified English officer of...
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AMERICANS IN BRITAIN: THE WORK OF NO 121 (EAGLE) SQUADRON RAF, ROCHFORD, ESSEX, AUGUST 1942An intelligence officer collects information from an Eagle Squadron Spitfire crew after a flight. Left to right, they are: Flying Officer K M Osbourne, Flight Lieutenant Seldon R Edner, the intelligence officer, Squadron Leader W R Williams DFC (the...