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• 43 Repair Group Air Frame Repair Service, Lincoln : repairing Liberator aircraft

  (art) Made by: Macdonald, Frances 1945

  image: two Liberators stand in a hangar workshop surrounded by scaffolding, wing and engine parts. Several uniformed workers stand beneath the plane.

• A Rescue Speed Boat under Construction

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

  image: a view of three men at work constructing a ships hull. The framework of the hull fills the background. A fourth worker wearing dungarees stands in the foreground checking a piece of wood.

• Mary Mitchell : engraver, electrical shop, "HMS Dolphin"

  (art) Made by: Dring, William (RA) 1942-09-01

  image: A full length portrait of Mary Mitchell, seated at a machine at work, turned away from the viewer.

• Donning their Battledress : liners and cargo vessels being camouflaged

  (art) Made by: Halliday, Thomas Symington

  image: A view of two ships decorated with dazzle anchored either side of a dock. They are dwarfed by a much larger ship in the background. The sky is filled with smoke. In the foreground tiny figures scurry around on the quayside amongst rail trucks and...

• Building Submarines

  (art) Made by: Cundall, Charles Ernest 1940

  image: parts of a hull of a submarine stand under construction in a large scaffold, dwarfing nearby workers.

• WRNS Censoring Ships' Mail Portsmouth, 1944

  (art) Made by: Hennell, Thomas Barclay 1944

  image: four women of the WRNS at work in an office censoring post. Three of the women work at desks, with the fourth standing at the back of the room beside a large wooden bow or stern decoration from an old Royal Navy ship incorporating a unicorn. The...

• WORKER AND WAR-FRONT MAGAZINE ISSUE NO 1 [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Paul Rotha Productions (Production company) 1942-05

  A newsreel highlighting the part played by ordinary working men and women in Britain's war effort featuring reports on a scheme to enable women war workers to buy food during working hours, the production of sand filters for aircraft and tank engines, a...

• Constructing a Gun Emplacement

  (art) Made by: Gross, Anthony (CBE) (RA) 1941

  image: Military personnel construct a circular gun emplacement. The main section is surrounded by fencing, which is heavily supported. In the distance is the sea and the outline of the neighbouring clifftops.

• 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

  (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.