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• An Oven : the bread for the front is baked at the base

  (art) Made by: McBey, James 1917-06-21

  image: three men of the British Army Service Corps stand before a huge oven, with a large tray full of loaves of bread to the right.

• Kensington Palace and Allotments

  (art) Made by: Rushbury, Henry (Sir) (RA)

  image: a view of the red brick Kensington Palace with the surrounding grounds converted for use as allotments in the foreground. A few men and women are at work maintaining the plots, which appear full of vegetables.

• Hassani Airfield, Athens

  (art) Made by: Hailstone, Harold William 1944

  image: A view of an airfield comprising of three hangars with a row of planes in the shadow of a hill. In the foreground is a herd of sheep grazing amongst the wreckage of a crashed plane, watched by a shepherd.

• Ready for Christmas: the Canteen under St. Martin's-in-the-Fields

  (art) Made by: Kapp, Edmond Xavier 1941

  image: the interior of an underground canteen under St Martin-in-the-Fields church in London. In the foreground are tables and chairs to the left and stacked chairs to the right. At the far end of the room is the canteen itself, with a man leaning on the...

• 5th Commando - Custom Inspection on the Anglo-Chinese Frontier, Hong Kong, 1945

  (art) Made by: Morris, James

  image: two British soldiers inspect the contents of a group of Chinese civilians' baskets. Three of the civilians are male and wear wide-brimmed straw hats; the fourth is a woman with a baby strapped to her back.

• Street Merchant, Mombasa, December 1941

  (art) Made by: Searle, Ronald William Fordham 1941-12-01

  image: A sketch of a spice seller, wearing a turban and loin cloth, with bowls of spice and miniature scales.

• Cape Town: In the Green Market, December 1941

  (art) Made by: Searle, Ronald William Fordham 1941-12-01

  image: A sketch of a scene in a vegetable market, Cape Town. There are group of men standing, talking on the left of the composition; a young boy selling newspapers; two women, one veiled and carrying a string of fish, the other handing a basket to a...

• The Fruit Cart, Cape Town, December 1941

  (art) Made by: Searle, Ronald William Fordham 1941-12-01

  image: A scene showing the corner of a street. From left to right: a lamp-post in an island in the middle of the road with children sitting underneath; a horse-drawn fruit cart with a man standing at the horse's head and children hanging on to the tail-...

• Green Market, Cape Town, December 1941

  (art) Made by: Searle, Ronald William Fordham 1941-12-01

  image: A sketch of a horse-drawn cart with a cage of chickens in the back and driver up front. There is also a woman carrying a large load on her head who is accompanied by a small child.

• Fruit Seller, Mombasa, December 1941

  (art) Made by: Searle, Ronald William Fordham 1941-12-01

  image: A sketch of a fruit seller and his stall set up in front of a building with two windows, both with metal grilles. The stallholder wears a fez and sits on an orange box, a woven basket at his feet. A veiled woman with a child looks at the produce...