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• A Sunday Morning with the Home Guard: Storming an Enemy Post

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1941

  image: A country lane with a group of home guards rushing along. They are turning a corner, through a gate next to a small low building. There is one man, further down the lane, lagging behind.

• A Sunday Morning with the Home Guard: Advance on the First Objective

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1941

  image: A group of Home Guards moving through parkland towards a large house. The men at the front, near the house, are lying on the ground while the others appear to be running.

• Sign-posts, 1940

  (art) Made by: Seago, Edward Brian 1940

  image: A pile of sign posts stacked up haphazardly in front of a shed in a rural setting. The pile is surrounded by neat stacks of planks and piping.

• ATS Working Out the Findings on Shell-bursts

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

  image: a group of ATS personnel work around a table plotting shell bursts whilst a teacher supervises. An ATS worker uses a small machine in the foreground.

• Finished for the Day at an ATS Camp

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

  image: a group of ATS officers mount their bicycles to leave their camp, a camp building to the left and a corrugated iron bicycle hut to the right. A steam train passes by in the background.

• Study of Glass-blowers

  (art) Made by: Peake, Mervyn 1943

  image: a full length depiction of a glass blower at work, shown front-on. The man stands with the metal tube to his mouth, twisting the tube with both hands, the glass bulb at his feet glowing yellow and red. He stands within a reddish glow, the interior...

• Bells! A Unit of the National Fire Service Answering a Call

  (art) Made by: Abrahams, Enid

  image: A view from above of firemen running to answer a call. Some are running towards the fire engines with their equipment, others are pulling the covers off the vehicles.

• A Machine for Spraying Scarred Ground for Camouflage

  (art) Made by: La Dell, Edwin (ARA)

  image: A man drives a tractor, which has a piece of machinery attached to the back. The machinery has three taps that pour dark paint onto the ground, thus providing aerial camouflage. A factory is visible in the background.

• Arriving At The Factory

  (art) Made by: Abbess, Margaret

  image: an evening scene outside a factory with smoking chimneys as the workers are streaming in through a small door on the left, preparing for the night shift. Light streams from the doorway and from a large goods hatch in the centre of the picture,...

• Impressions of Cooks Ferry Travelling to and from Work

  (art) Made by: Abbess, Margaret

  image: a view looking down on to a busy flyover, filled with buses and trucks. The road curves around to the left, sweeping over some train tracks and industrial buildings. There are more factories and a gasometer in the distance.