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• Limestone Quarry

  (art) Made by: Sutherland, Graham (OM) 1943

  image: some figures stand on a rocky ledge loading rocks into small carts on tracks in the quarry.

• Thomas Tanner GM: War Reserve Police Constable, Marylebone Lane Police Station

  (art) Made by: Thompson, Ernest Heber 1941

  image: a half length portrait of policeman Thomas Tanner in uniform with his arms folded, the medal ribbon of his George Medal on his chest.

• 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.

• J A Leach

  (art) Made by: Horton, Percy Frederick 1943

  image: A head and shoulder portrait of J A Leach wearing a suit and glasses, facing slightly towards the right.

• ATS : trainees working in a Field Kitchen

  (art) Made by: Guthrie, Robin Craig

  image: A full length profile of an ATS wearing overalls leaning over, as if to stir something, with a wooden spoon in her outstreched right hand.

• ATS : trainees having a lecture-demonstration in pastry-making

  (art) Made by: Guthrie, Robin Craig

  image: A chef stands at the front of the class holding up a container. On the table in front of him various cooking utensils are laid out. The class sits down two sides of a table, facing the chef, all wearing overalls and head scarves.

• Handling a Balloon by Searchlight

  (art) Made by: Noke, L

  image: a few RAF personnel busy with the ropes attached to a large balloon, working under the light of a searchlight on the back of a truck on the right. A few trees, roofs and chimneys are visible in the background against the night sky.

• Woolwich Arsenal in 1943

  (art) Made by: Austin, Robert Sargent 1943

  image: a view of production workers inside the munitions shed at the Woolwich Arsenal in London. They are working on a large metal component of an artillery gun.

• Coming Down : the balloon's fins and rudder are full of air. A girl pulls the air vent from underneath as the bag sinks down

  (art) Made by: Austin, Robert Sargent 1941

  image: a female WAAF balloon worker, wearing overalls and with her back to the viewer, pulls the air vent of a large balloon, which is in the process of deflating.

• On The Strip-line: Churchill tanks being dismantled

  (art) Made by: Cuneo, Terence Tenison 1943

  image: the interior of a factory with men stripping down and dismantling tanks. The hulls of several Churchill tanks are arranged in a line, men busying themselves within and on top of the tanks. In the foreground two men work on a tank engine.