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• War Weapons Week in a Country Town

  (art) Made by: Ford, Michael 1941

  image: A street scene in a small town. A brass band, Girl Guides, Police and Home Guard participate in War Weapons Week outside a community hall and are watched by a crowd of civilians. Union flags are on display and a speech is being made from a...

• Home Guards brewing Tea just before Dawn

  (art) Made by: Ford, Michael 1941

  image: Two Home Guards inside a small wooden hut, brewing tea by candlelight.

• A Knitting Party

  (art) Made by: Dunbar, Evelyn Mary 1940

  image: A large room with a party of women sitting in chairs and knitting

• A Blockhouse Somewhere in England

  (art) Made by: Duffy, Louis 1943

  image: a blockhouse in a rural location. In the foreground there are six girders sunk into the ground, surrounded by rocks and cast concrete forms. In the background there is a row of similar concrete blocks running along the edge of a plowed field on a...

• CEMA Canteen Concert, Isle of Dogs, London, E14, 1941

  (art) Made by: Rowntree, Kenneth 1941

  image: The interior of a large room, filled with people seated around tables. In the foreground there is a table stacked with plates, behind which stands a woman wearing an apron.

• A Munitions Factory

  (art) Made by: Elwell, Frederick William (RA) 1944

  image: Interior of a munitions factory with women working on lathes and other machinery

• The Queue at the Fish-shop

  (art) Made by: Dunbar, Evelyn Mary 1944

  image: A long line of women queue outside the shop of H. Hill and Son, fishmongers, poulterers. The slabs are being washed down in anticipation of a fresh delivery.

• Grand Harbour, Malta, October 1943

  (art) Made by: Worsley, John 1943

  image: a view of the harbour with a battleship in the foreground. To the left of the battleship is another large naval vessel, a monitor, which is positioned behind a tug boat.

• Propaganda

  (art) Made by: Fried, Theodore 1939

  image: A fascistic figure, possibly a depiction of Joseph Goebbels, aggresively delivers a speech into a microphone from a rostrum. Three thuggish figures in uniform shirts stand in front of the rostrum.

• Canadian Troops replacing Track

  (art) Made by: Lamb, Henry (MC) (RA) 1941

  image: four Canadian troops struggle to replace tank track in the countryside. Three troops stand with their backs to the viewer, along the side of the tank while the fourth lies on the ground, partially under the tank, holding a rope taught.