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• 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...

• 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.

• 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.

• Fortified Islands in the Bristol Channel: 6" Naval gun emplacement, Gallipoli Gun, Steepholm

  (art) Made by: Howard-Jones, Ray 1943

  image: A covered gun emplacement looking out over water with a figure standing behind.

• Fortified Islands in the Bristol Channel: 2" Naval UP Projector on an earlier fortification

  (art) Made by: Howard-Jones, Ray 1943

  image: A Naval UP Projector standing on top of an old fortification. The gun is manned by two uniformed figures, one on either side. In the foreground there are two sets of steps: one leading up to the soldiers and the second leading down to a doorway in...

• Study for 'Gun Emplacement'

  (art) Made by: Nash, John (RA)

  image: a view looking down upon a coastal gun emplacement surrounded by sandbags. One soldier attends to the gun while two others sit, bare-chested, on the sandbags. Upper right, the artist has made some small sketch details of the scene.

• Firing a 9.2 Gun

  (art) Made by: Ravilious, Eric 1941

  image: a gun position set on a hillside. A group of figures stand on the right, behind the camouflaged structure that houses the gun. There are enormous yellow flames billowing into the air from the nose of the gun. Delicate white flowers lie in 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...

• Bombing the Channel Ports

  (art) Made by: Ravilious, Eric 1941

  image: the deserted road along the green-banked coastline. In the top right of the composition there are searchlights beaming up into the sky, and a large circular glow of light to one side.

• Light Anti-aircraft Defences : a quadruple Lewis Gun

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

  image: A quadruple Lewis gun on an anti-aircraft outpost on a clifftop. Six men are stationed at the outpost and are observing the sky using binoculars. On the right, the land cuts away down to the sea and harbour.