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• The Control-room at South West Regional Headquarters, Bristol

  (art) Made by: Piper, John (CH) 1940

  image: a room lit by electric light. On the right hand wall is an abstract map, with areas marked with numbers and letters. On the adjacent wall are more symbols, another smaller map and a clock. In the foreground are tables with a glass and carafe.

• Sketch for 'London Docks' (LD4039)

  (art) Made by: Macdonald, Frances 1944-01-01

  image: a view of a dry dock with a large scaffold erected next to a quay side on the right. On the quay side there are several cranes. To the left there are several more cranes and a parked van surrounded by figures alongside a channel of water.

• Patients waiting Outside a First Aid Post in a Factory

  (art) Made by: Spear, Ruskin (CBE RA) 1942

  image: Two figures sitting on chairs in a makeshift waiting room. A curtain dividing this space off from the rest of the interior runs along the left of the composition to the centre ground. There is a white table standing in the foreground, an open...

• A Searchlight Battery

  (art) Made by: Richards, Albert 1942

  image: a searchlight on a small paved area of a promenade, next to a lighthouse. The area is surrounded by barbed wire and also contains a small, manned anti-aircraft gun emplacement. There are several men in uniform in the battery, including one asleep...

• A Barrage Balloon over a Dock at Hull

  (art) Made by: Goodin, Walter 1942

  image: several dock workers struggle to secure a barrage balloon floating above a quay side in the docks at which several barges are moored.

• The Shadow of a Balloon

  (art) Made by: Bone, Stephen 1943

  image: two men look out of the skylights in the roof of a shop as the shadow of a kite balloon passes over them.

• 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.

• An Afternoon Show by an ENSA Company in a NAAFI canteen hut

  (art) Made by: Graves, Frank 1941

  image: Composite view of the audience (mostly RAF personnel), stage and back-stage during an ENSA show in a NAAFI canteen. An aircraft can be seen through the window back-stage to the right of the composition, where the actors are changing into costume.

• The Camouflage Workshop, Leamington Spa, 1940

  (art) Made by: La Dell, Edwin (ARA) 1940

  image: Workers sewing and designing camouflage in a workshop lit by electric lighting. Some samples are suspended from the ceiling; two others are stretched on the back wall and are being worked on from a step ladder.