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• The Tube: October 1940

  (art) Made by: Topolski, Feliks 1940-10-01

  image: The interior of Leicester Square underground station with figures lying asleep on the floor of the station platform. There is a large man sitting smoking a pipe in the foreground, and several ARP wardens wearing helmets standing further down the...

• London's Week - You Can Help - Buy War Bonds

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist) 1918

  whole: the title and text are placed across the bottom, laid over the image. image: a British tank, seen from below as it moves left to right firing its guns. In the background British infantrymen advance alongside. text: LONDON'S WEEK YOU CAN HELP. BUY...

• General Bronislaw Regulski, CB

  (art) Made by: Lamb, Henry (MC) (RA) 1941

  image: a three-quarter length, seated portrait of General Bronislaw Regulski in uniform, holding his cap on his lap.

• General Viest

  (art) Made by: Lamb, Henry (MC) (RA) 1943

  image: a half length portrait of General Viest in uniform, sitting at a table.

• River Plate Pageant

  (art) Made by: PEARS, CHARLES 1918

  image: A large rowing boat that appears to be carrying the King and Queen, passes under London Bridge during a ceremonial pageant. There are further boats on the River Thames in the background and Tower Bridge can also be seen through one of London...

• Patients waiting Outside a First Aid Post in a Factory

  (art) Made by: Spear, Ruskin (CBE RA) 1942

  image: Two figures sitting on chairs in a makeshift waiting room. A curtain dividing this space off from the rest of the interior runs along the left of the composition to the centre ground. There is a white table standing in the foreground, an open...

• A Large Fire near the Thames, October 1940

  (art) Made by: Uden, Ernest Boye 1940-10-01

  image: a fire crew rush to the quay side with a water cannon to attend to a fire. The smoke is billowing from around the corner. In the background there are warehouses and cranes, all bathed in a red glow.

• The Royal Empire Society during Mr Winston Churchill's Broadcast : 11th September 1940

  (art) Made by: Topolski, Feliks 1940-09-11

  image: a large man with a moustache, smoking a cigar, sits in an arm chair. Behind him are similar figures, also sitting listening to the broadcast.

• A Telephone Exchange

  (art) Made by: Pitchforth, Roland Vivian (RA) 1941

  image: a view inside a bombed telephone exchange, filled with piles of wires and rubble. Swathes of tangled wires hang from the ceiling, with some larger cables dangling in the foreground.

• Sunday Morning, Great Titchfield Street, London W1

  (art) Made by: Pitchforth, Roland Vivian (RA) 1941

  image: a view along a deserted, bombed street strewn with rubble. In the foreground there is a large crater near a doorway on the corner marked with a police sign.