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• 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.

• The Eagle Hut, Aldwych

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

  image: a view across the wooden buildings of the American YMCA Eagle Hut in Aldwych, constructed adjacent to St Mary le Strand church, which is visible immediately behind. Two horse-drawn carts full of American soldiers are on the road in front of the...

• A Land Girl

  (art) Made by: Schwabe, Randolph

  image: a worker of the Women's Land Army standing and crouching over, engaged in work. She wears typical WLA overalls and hat and reaches down with her right arm to something not depicted in the drawing.

• A Tug Of War. Girls v Men : Gordon, Watney & Co., Aeronautical Engineers, Weybridge

  (art) Made by: Isaac, Nellie E

  image: a team of eight women dressed in blue work dresses and caps pull on a tug-of-war rope. A young man urges them on, while a young boy and girl watch from behind a barrier. In the background a crowd watches in front of two marquees.

• Behind The Scenes in the Canteen Theatre. Waiting in the Wings : Gordon, Watney & Co., Aeronautical Engineers, Weybridge

  (art) Made by: Isaac, Nellie E

  image: six costumed women stand and sit in the theatre wings looking onto the stage, waiting to perform. Two men stand to the left, one holding a black cat prop by the tail.

• At A Performance in the Canteen Theatre : Gordon, Watney & Co., Aeronautical Engineers, Weybridge

  (art) Made by: Isaac, Nellie E

  image: rows of female munitions workers sit and watch a theatre performance in a large hall. The stage is shown in the left background with two women performing.

• Hoisting a Captured German Mortar, St James' Park

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

  image: a team of British soldiers hoist a captured German mortar from the back of a truck onto the road of the Mall, leading up to Buckingham Palace in the background. Another team manhandle a second mortar in the right foreground. This forms part of a...

• Thatching Flax for Aeroplanes

  (art) Made by: Schwabe, Randolph

  image: two women are using ladders to work on the roof of a large thatched building; to the right three women are working on a pile of thatching; in the left foregound two women are preparing bundles of reeds; on the far left, another figure is visible...