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• A Daylight Raid On London, 7th July 1917: Seen from the roof of the Royal College of Science with the Brompton Oratory in the foreground

  (art) Made by: Arnold, Norman G 1918

  image: A view from West to East across to the centre of London from South Kensington. The the Brompton Oratory is in the right foreground. Anti-aircraft shell-bursts can be seen in the sky.

• An October Night Raid on London, 1917: Seen from the Royal College of Science

  (art) Made by: Arnold, Norman G 1918

  image: A view of a night-time raid over London showing anti-aircraft search-lights in the sky. The dome of the Brompton Oratory lies to the left of the composition.

• Man the Barrage

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist)

  whole: the image is positioned in the upper half. The title and text are separate and located in the lower half, in red, in blue and in black, set against a white background. image: a depiction of two barrage balloons moored with cables to three motor...

• Who'll Help Mrs Harrison?

  (posters) Made by: Unknown (artist)

  whole: the image is positioned in the upper half, with the title and text are separate and placed in the lower half, in black. All set against a white background. image: a shoulder-length depiction of a young girl sewing. The background behind her is...

• Anti-aircraft Fire meeting Flying-bombs as they cross the Coast Defences, Dymchurch, July 1944

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1944

  image: View along the defended beach at Dymchurch with puffs of anti-aircraft fire in the sky and the fleeting shape of a flying-bomb in upper right corner

• An Air Raid Warden at Kano, Northern Nigeria

  (art) Made by: Trevelyan, Julian (RA) 1942

  image: A night scene of the town of Kano, in Nigeria. In the foreground the air raid warden stands holding what appears to be a long trumpet. He wears a white robe and a tin hat. Behind and around him the townspeople carry out their routine activities of...

• Shelter Experiments, near Woburn, Bedfordshire

  (art) Made by: Piper, John (CH)

  image: a view across a depopulated rural landscape where bomb shelter experiments have been conducted. Two domed igloo- like concrete structures stand in the foreground, one largely intact, the other largely destroyed. Further back is a shattered brick...

• 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 CH (Chain Home) Radar Station on the East Coast

  (art) Made by: Rawlinson, William Thomas 1946

  image: Standard steel transmitter towers in the foreground with wooden receiver towers in the background. In the foreground are piles of tires, some vegetation and a line of barbed wire fencing.

• The Anti-robot Gun Belt on the Romney Marshes

  (art) Made by: Ensor, Arthur John 1944

  image: A flat landscape with anti-aircraft guns positioned over the fields. In the corner is a small group of military tents.