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• Home Guards brewing Tea just before Dawn

  (art) Made by: Ford, Michael 1941

  image: Two Home Guards inside a small wooden hut, brewing tea by candlelight.

• Captain Pauline Gower of the Women's Air Transport Auxiliary Women's Work in the War (Other than the Services) - Six lithographs by Ethel Gabain

  (art) Made by: Gabain, Ethel Leontine (artist) 1941

  image: An image of a female pilot poised above the cockpit of a plane. She is dressed in a flying cap, goggles, and wears a shirt and tie underneath her jacket. The plane's wing struts run diagonally across the image.

• The Queue at the Fish-shop

  (art) Made by: Dunbar, Evelyn Mary 1944

  image: A long line of women queue outside the shop of H. Hill and Son, fishmongers, poulterers. The slabs are being washed down in anticipation of a fresh delivery.

• The X-ray Department at the Queen Alexandra Military Hospital

  (art) Made by: Macdonald, Frances 1941

  image: a patient sits within the framework of an x-ray machine with three technicians in white coats standing by. On the right side of the room is a nurse standing with two other patients waiting their turn, one on crutches.

• Women's Home Defence - Join Now!

  (posters)

  whole: the Women's Home Defence badge is positioned centrally with black text above and below. All is set against a plain white background. image: a shield shaped badge with a yellow border and crimson centre. Within the centre are crossed rifles above a...

• WAAFs Packing Parachutes

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

  image: the parachutes are laid out on long, thin tables while the WAAFs arrange the fabric and the ropes . In the background one parachute has just been packed and lies in a bundle at the end of the table.

• WAAFs Repairing Parachutes at a Maintenance Unit, Henlow

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

  image: a group of WAAFs in uniform sit around a large, square work table covered in swathes of Parachute silk. Each one is sewing at a sewing machine lit with an angle poise lamp.

• An AA Battery : River Medway

  (art) Made by: Pitchforth, Roland Vivian (RA) 1943

  image: a view looking down on several anti-aircraft guns, including two Bofors guns, in gun emplacements with a few soldiers moving around in between the maze of walls in the battery. The battery is positioned on the coast with the sea and a small dock...

• An AA Battery

  (art) Made by: Pitchforth, Roland Vivian (RA) 1943

  image: Two figures stand in the centre of a road in the foreground. Behind them, just off the roadside, is a gun battery. An anti-aircraft gun points up to the sky, surrounded by a circular stone wall and sandbags. The rooftops of a large town lie...

• A Royal Observer Corps Post, Rottingdean

  (art) Made by: Pitchforth, Roland Vivian (RA) 1944

  image: a view looking down on two observers, one wearing headphones, facing upwards towards the sky with binoculars and a aircraft range finder. They stand in a small brick enclosure on a hillside near the coast.