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• The 'L' Press. Forging the Jacket of an 18-inch Gun: Armstrong-Whitworth Works, Openshaw, 1918

  (art) Made by: Airy, Anna 1918

  image: The interior view of a munitions factory showing the manufacture of 18' guns with munition workers. A figure in suit and bowler hat stands in the foreground. There is a warm orange light spread over the scene emitted from the forge in the right of...

• A Shell Forge at a National Projectile Factory, Hackney Marshes, London, 1918

  (art) Made by: Airy, Anna 1918

  image: The interior view of a shell forge showing the glowing hot shell cases emerging from the furnaces on the left of the composition. Munitions workers man the furnaces on the left; in the foreground is the back of a worker leaning over a glowing hot...

• The British Museum: Sketches of Sandbagged Sculptures in the Egyptian Gallery

  (art) Made by: Rushbury, Henry (Sir) (RA) 1918

  image: in the left half is a sketch of three sculptures standing alongside one another in the Egyptian gallery of the British Museum. In the right half is a sketch of a sculpture and two piles of sandbags protecting further sculptures, also in the...

• The British Museum: Sketches of Sandbagged Sculptures in the Northern Egyptian and Assyrian Galleries

  (art) Made by: Rushbury, Henry (Sir) (RA) 1918

  image: in the left half is a sketch of an interior view of part of the Northern Egyptian gallery in the British Museum, with an ancient pillar standing in the centre of the room and the sculpted head of Rameses II visible in the background. In the right...

• The British Museum : removing sandbags in the Northern Egyptian Gallery

  (art) Made by: Rushbury, Henry (Sir) (RA) 1918

  image: an interior view of the Northern Egyptian gallery in the British Museum, with several workmen in the process of removing sandbags, which are arranged in large piles against the tall walls. The formost workman has a wheelbarrow at the ready, with a...

• The British Museum : Sandbagged sculpture in the Egyptian Gallery

  (art) Made by: Rushbury, Henry (Sir) (RA) 1918

  image: an interior view of the Egyptian gallery in the British Museum, with a few workers standing amongst large piles of sandbags used to protect sculptures in the event of an air raid. One stone pharoah head is visible to the left.

• Dr Flora Murray: Endell Street Hospital, London

  (art) Made by: Spare, Austin O

  image: a portrait of Dr Flora Murray sitting at a desk in an office at Endell Street hospital in London, looking down at something on the surface of the desk. The hand of a colleague is visible on the desktop to the left, showing that Murray shares the...

• Inside the Eagle Hut, Aldwych

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

  image: a group of American soldiers and sailors sit and stand before a large map of the USA mounted on the wall of the YMCA Eagle Hut at Aldwych.

• Westminster Abbey : the tombs of Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary sandbagged

  (art) Made by: Rushbury, Henry (Sir) (RA) 1918

  image: an interior view of the grand tombs of Queens Elizabeth and Mary covered with piles of sandbags, within Westminster Abbey.

• Westminster Cathedral : the visit of the Italian Carabinieri, 1918

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

  image: an interior view of a grand Catholic service taking place in Westminster Cathedral, with men of the Italian Carainieri present, standing just before the altar. Senior clergymen stand to the right, with one senior priest wearing long robes leading...