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  • THE BRITISH FISHING VILLAGE OF BRIXHAM, DEVON IN 1944 THE BRITISH FISHING VILLAGE OF BRIXHAM, DEVON IN 1944

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

    British naval officers with a jeep in the street of the fishing village.

  • Untitled [War Savings are Warships] Untitled [War Savings are Warships]

    (posters) Made by: Wilkinson, Norman (CBE) (artist)

    whole: the image occupies the upper three-quarters. The text is separate and positioned in the lower centre, in red. A blank, white text space is located in the lower quarter. The top edge and bottom edge are held within a red border. image: a depiction...

  • A Music Hall in Plymouth A Music Hall in Plymouth

    (art) Made by: Topolski, Feliks 1940-11-01

    image: an audience in a music hall, viewed from behind the stalls. In the foreground there are some sailors and girls standing, watching the show with their backs to the artist. A large man and two girls holding Union Jacks are visible on the illuminated...

  • The Outside Viewing-tank : Directorate of Camouflage, Naval Section The Outside Viewing-tank : Directorate of Camouflage, Naval Section

    (art) Made by: Yunge-Bateman, James 1943

    image: a young bespectacled woman leans into the composition from the left with her hands submerged in a water tank. The viewing-tank appears to be on the roof of a building as there is a blue sky with clouds and the green dome of a building in the...

  • Night Exercises in Plymouth Sound Night Exercises in Plymouth Sound

    (art) Made by: Pitchforth, Roland Vivian (RA) 1942

    image: a view looking out to sea towards an island at night, with the tip of the seafront in the foreground. Searchlight throw beams up into the night sky, highlighting dark ships and a flying boat off the coast.

  • War-time traffic on the river Thames: War-supplies at Paul's Wharf War-time traffic on the river Thames: War-supplies at Paul's Wharf

    (art) Made by: Platt, John Edgar 1942

    image: a view across the Thames. Several barges, tugs and gunboats sail up and down the river. The dome of St Paul's is visible between the two warehouses on the far bank.

  • Building Wooden Ships for the Admiralty, Grimsby, 1944 Building Wooden Ships for the Admiralty, Grimsby, 1944

    (art) Made by: Worrall, Ernest John 1944

    image: the wooden framework of the hull of a boat viewed from the stern. It is suspended in a wooden scaffold with two men at work on the top of the frame.

  • Land Work in War-time - Portfolio of four lithographs The Land Army Growing Vegetables for the Navy Land Work in War-time - Portfolio of four lithographs The Land Army Growing Vegetables for the Navy

    (art) Made by: Hartrick, Archibald Standish (OBE) 1940

    image: Land girls harvesting cabbages. A group of women stand in a field close to the coast. In the background there is a ship out at sea, and the Isle of Wight lies in the distance.

  • BRITISH UNDERWATER SECRETS: ADMIRALTY EXPERIMENTAL DIVING UNIT, TOLWORTH, SURREY, JUNE 1945. BRITISH UNDERWATER SECRETS: ADMIRALTY EXPERIMENTAL DIVING UNIT, TOLWORTH, SURREY, JUNE 1945.

    part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

    "Lord Nelson", a Himalayan hornless mountain goat, stands in a pressure chamber during an experiment at the Admiralty Experimental Diving Unit at Tolworth. Lord Nelson is four and a half years old and has undergone many experiments under pressure at the...

  • PENICILLIN PRODUCTION AT THE ROYAL NAVY MEDICAL SCHOOL, CLEVEDON, SOMERSET, 1944 PENICILLIN PRODUCTION AT THE ROYAL NAVY MEDICAL SCHOOL, CLEVEDON, SOMERSET, 1944

    part of "ADMIRALTY OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Royal Navy official photographer

    Mass production of penicillin.

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