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  • CIVIL DEFENCE - BRITAIN'S WARTIME DEFENCES, 1940 CIVIL DEFENCE - BRITAIN'S WARTIME DEFENCES, 1940

    part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR PRESS AGENCY PRINT COLLECTION" (photographs)

    A signpost in Surrey being dismantled as part of a campaign to remove everything which may prove of value to the enemy, should invasion occur.

  • Coastal Defences Coastal Defences

    (art) Made by: Ravilious, Eric 1940

    image: a view along the length of a moat out to sea. The moat has been blocked up by two lines of fencing and has steep faces, the left face being made up of a very high brick wall. A flag mast, a sandbagged post and several military personnel are...

  • Private Papers of Mrs W C Bowman Private Papers of Mrs W C Bowman

    (private papers) Made by: Bowman, Winifred C

    Photocopied ts transcripts (80pp) of long, detailed letters by friends and relatives in Britain, May 1940 - February 1941, to a lady who had been evacuated to the United States with her children with good references to the BEF in France, the evacuation...

  • Private Papers of Mrs J Crossley Private Papers of Mrs J Crossley

    (private papers)

    Well written and informative ts memoir (52pp), written in 1998, covering the period 1939 - 1945, describing her wartime experiences with details of her preparations for war, food and clothes rationing, feelings of anti-climax during the Phoney War, fears...

  • L.D.V. Look-out Post, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, 1940 L.D.V. Look-out Post, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire, 1940

    (art) Made by: Trivick, Henry Houghton 1940

    image: a small wooden shed dug into an earthen bank surrounded by sandbags, which serves as a Land Defence Volunteers post. In the foreground is what appears to be a dummy machine gun mounted on a wooden post. There is a wood in the background.