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• 43 Repair Group Air Frame Repair Service, Lincoln : repairing Liberator aircraft

  (art) Made by: Macdonald, Frances 1945

  image: two Liberators stand in a hangar workshop surrounded by scaffolding, wing and engine parts. Several uniformed workers stand beneath the plane.

• A Rescue Speed Boat under Construction

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

  image: a view of three men at work constructing a ships hull. The framework of the hull fills the background. A fourth worker wearing dungarees stands in the foreground checking a piece of wood.

• Camouflaging a Cruiser in Dock

  (art) Made by: Foot, Victorine Anne 1943

  image: Superstructure of a camouflaged cruiser seen from a dockside with dock-workers and painters at work

• Mary Mitchell : engraver, electrical shop, "HMS Dolphin"

  (art) Made by: Dring, William (RA) 1942-09-01

  image: A full length portrait of Mary Mitchell, seated at a machine at work, turned away from the viewer.

• Donning their Battledress : liners and cargo vessels being camouflaged

  (art) Made by: Halliday, Thomas Symington

  image: A view of two ships decorated with dazzle anchored either side of a dock. They are dwarfed by a much larger ship in the background. The sky is filled with smoke. In the foreground tiny figures scurry around on the quayside amongst rail trucks and...

• A Balloon Close-Hauled on a Barge

  (art) Made by: Hodge, Francis Edwin 1941

  image: A barrage balloon attached with ropes to a barge being moved at sea. There is a tugboat in the right foreground and other boats visible on the water in the background. There are also other barrage balloons in the cloudy blue sky.

• Drifters at Greenock with Hospital Launches Beyond

  (art) Made by: Bone, Stephen 1942

  image: in the foreground two figures stand on the quay side near three moored Drifters. The roofs, chimneys and spires of the town can be seen in the distance.

• Building Submarines

  (art) Made by: Cundall, Charles Ernest 1940

  image: parts of a hull of a submarine stand under construction in a large scaffold, dwarfing nearby workers.

• WORKER AND WAR-FRONT MAGAZINE ISSUE NO 1 [Main Title]

  (film) Made by: Paul Rotha Productions (Production company) 1942-05

  A newsreel highlighting the part played by ordinary working men and women in Britain's war effort featuring reports on a scheme to enable women war workers to buy food during working hours, the production of sand filters for aircraft and tank engines, a...

• Admiral of the Fleet Lord Cunningham of Hyndhope, KT, GCB, DSO presenting the White Ensign worn by "HMS Warspite", Edinburgh 1945

  (art) Made by: Bone, Stephen 1945-09-27

  image: View from an elevated position of the presentation of a white ensign at the alter of St Giles' Cathedral, with an honour guard of sailors.