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• GRENADIER GUARDSMEN BUILD EMERGENCY HOUSING IN WINDSOR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division official photographer

  Sergeant Whyte looks on as a guardsman finishes off the brickwork to complete the first nissen hut style temporary house built by the Grenadier Guards at Windsor.

• GRENADIER GUARDSMEN BUILD EMERGENCY HOUSING IN WINDSOR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division official photographer

  Guardsmen laying the first courses of brick to form the foundations of a nissen hut style temporary house.

• POST WAR PLANNING AND RECONSTRUCTION IN BRITAIN: GRENADIER GUARDSMEN BUILD EMERGENCY HOUSING IN WINDSOR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

  Guardsmen mixing cement for use in the construction of temporary houses.

• POST WAR PLANNING AND RECONSTRUCTION IN BRITAIN: GRENADIER GUARDSMEN BUILD EMERGENCY HOUSING IN WINDSOR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

  Sergeant Whyte, in charge of the construction work, indicates how steel from former Nissen huts is used in the construction of the new temporary houses.

• POST WAR PLANNING AND RECONSTRUCTION IN BRITAIN: GRENADIER GUARDSMEN BUILD EMERGENCY HOUSING IN WINDSOR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

  One of the Guardsmen works on structural timber for one of the temporary houses. All the timber was secondhand and often required planing smooth and reshaping before use.

• POST WAR PLANNING AND RECONSTRUCTION IN BRITAIN: GRENADIER GUARDSMEN BUILD EMERGENCY HOUSING IN WINDSOR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

  A Guardsman finishing off the rendering on a chimney of one of the temporary houses.

• POST WAR PLANNING AND RECONSTRUCTION IN BRITAIN: GRENADIER GUARDSMEN BUILD EMERGENCY HOUSING IN WINDSOR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

  Guardsmen learning the right way to mix cement that will be used in the construction of the temporary houses.

• POST WAR PLANNING AND RECONSTRUCTION IN BRITAIN: GRENADIER GUARDSMEN BUILD EMERGENCY HOUSING IN WINDSOR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

  Guardsmen working on the construction of temporary houses. These men are training for civilian careers as builders, plumbers, plasterers and electricians.

• POST WAR PLANNING AND RECONSTRUCTION IN BRITAIN: GRENADIER GUARDSMEN BUILD EMERGENCY HOUSING IN WINDSOR

  part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

  Guardsmen working to complete the first of the temporary houses.

• THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM 1939-45

  part of "WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: War Office official photographer

  Troops from the Grenadier Guards constructing sandbag defences around government buildings on the corner of Horse Guards Road, Great George Street and Birdcage Walk, London, May 1940.