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• An Escalator in an Underground Factory

  (art) Made by: Dobson, Frank (RA) 1944

  image: crowds of women factory workers in white overalls descend an escalator. A figure with a bicycle goes up the escalator on the other side.

• 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.

• Miss Helen Milne : senior VAD

  (art) Made by: Dring, William (RA) 1943

  image: A seated half-length portrait of Miss Helen Milne in uniform.

• Study of Glass-blowers

  (art) Made by: Peake, Mervyn 1943

  image: a full length depiction of a glass blower at work, shown front-on. The man stands with the metal tube to his mouth, twisting the tube with both hands, the glass bulb at his feet glowing yellow and red. He stands within a reddish glow, the interior...

• Study of Glass-blowers

  (art) Made by: Peake, Mervyn 1943

  image: a glass blower shown side-on, holding the metal tube to his mouth with both hands, the large glass bulb at the end glowing shades of yellow, orange and red. Behind him a three shadowy figures within the darkened factory.

• Woolwich Arsenal in 1943

  (art) Made by: Austin, Robert Sargent 1943

  image: a view of production workers inside the munitions shed at the Woolwich Arsenal in London. They are working on a large metal component of an artillery gun.

• Members of a Home Guard Ack-Ack Gun Team, September 1943

  (art) Made by: Kennington, Eric Henri (RA) 1943

  image: two Home Guard Anti-Aircraft gunners load an anti-aircraft gun during an air raid at night.

• Blade Heat-treatment Cage

  (art) Made by: Kestelman, Morris (RA)

  image: two men stand on either side of a long cage containing a propeller, suspended from above. They are raising it with a winch. Several propellers are also visible in the background.

• The Quarry Railway

  (art) Made by: Sutherland, Graham (OM) 1943

  image: a view along a length of railway track, with steep walls either side and the entrance to a tunnel further up the line towards the top of the composition.

• The Second Sea Lord presenting Awards to Allied Naval Officers

  (art) Made by: Bone, Muirhead 1942

  image: A presentation ceremony in which the Second Sea Lord can be seen presenting a medal to a Naval officer. An audience of wives and other officers looks on, while other officers who have received the award stand alongside the Second Sea Lord.