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  • WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945 WAR INDUSTRY IN BRITAIN 1939-1945

    part of "MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information official photographer

    Welfare and Personnel Management: Welfare officers, who offered legal, personal and financial advice to factory employees.

  • FOOD COMES TO BRITAIN: AMERICAN LEND-LEASE FOOD ARRIVES IN THE UK, 1941 FOOD COMES TO BRITAIN: AMERICAN LEND-LEASE FOOD ARRIVES IN THE UK, 1941

    part of "MINISTRY OF FOOD SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Food official photographer

    Mr Lloyd Steer (left), Mr Paul Appleby (Under Secretary of Agriculture, USA) and Mr Rudolph Evans (Administrator of Agricultural Adjustment Administration, USA) examine boxes of dried apricots on the quayside, somewhere in Britain.

  • AMERICAN LEASE AND LEND FOOD BEING EATEN BY WORKERS IN THE POTTERY FACTORIES, STAFFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND AMERICAN LEASE AND LEND FOOD BEING EATEN BY WORKERS IN THE POTTERY FACTORIES, STAFFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND

    part of "MINISTRY OF FOOD SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Food official photographer

    Pottery workers in the kiln eating American cheese. (The products from this pottery are being exported to the USA).

  • AMERICAN LEASE AND LEND FOOD BEING EATEN IN STAFFORSHIRE, ENGLAND, 1941 AMERICAN LEASE AND LEND FOOD BEING EATEN IN STAFFORSHIRE, ENGLAND, 1941

    part of "MINISTRY OF FOOD SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Food official photographer

    Children eating eggs supplied by America under the Lend Lease scheme in a school in the Staffordshire Potteries area.

  • AMERICAN LEASE & LEND FOOD, UK, 1941 AMERICAN LEASE & LEND FOOD, UK, 1941

    part of "MINISTRY OF FOOD SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Food official photographer

    In a large warehouse, somewhere in Britain, American bacon and hams are treated to remove salt before they are sent out to retail shops.

  • THE LEND LEASE PROGRAMME THE LEND LEASE PROGRAMME

    part of "MINISTRY OF FOOD SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Food official photographer

    Elizabeth Rothwell of Bolton, Lancashire, sitting on a table drinking from a mug containing orange juice. The orange juice was supplied from America under the Lend Lease Programme from a mug. In the foreground next to her is a bottle of Ministry of...

  • BRITISH FOOD STOCKS FOR LIBERATED EUROPE, 1945 BRITISH FOOD STOCKS FOR LIBERATED EUROPE, 1945

    part of "MINISTRY OF FOOD SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Food official photographer

    Four children help two lorry men to load large tins of Meredith and Drew Ltd. 'Welfare Biscuits' onto a lorry. A row of terraced houses can be seen behind them. In addition to the biscuits, boxes of Ministry of Food mixed vegetable soup (which can be...

  • BRITISH FOOD STOCKS FOR LIBERATED EUROPE, 1945 BRITISH FOOD STOCKS FOR LIBERATED EUROPE, 1945

    part of "MINISTRY OF FOOD SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Food official photographer

    The Falcon Spinning Mill, Bolton, Lancashire. After being closed early in the war under the government scheme for centralizing cotton spinning, the mill was used for storing emergency food stuffs. Owing to the world shortage of cotton goods, the mill...

  • BRITISH FOOD STOCKS FOR LIBERATED EUROPE, 1945 BRITISH FOOD STOCKS FOR LIBERATED EUROPE, 1945

    part of "MINISTRY OF FOOD SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Food official photographer

    Italian prisoners load sacks of sugar stored in the Falcon Spinning Mill, Bolton, onto a truck for dispatch to liberated Europe. They are pushing the sacks to the truck on barrows and are using a pulley to hoist the 'Sankey Sugar' onto the truck.

  • BRITISH FOOD STOCKS FOR LIBERATED EUROPE, 1945 BRITISH FOOD STOCKS FOR LIBERATED EUROPE, 1945

    part of "MINISTRY OF FOOD SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Food official photographer

    Italian prisoners re-pack boxes of foodstuffs in a farm house, somewhere in Britain, (probably near Bolton, Lancashire), for dispatch to civilians in Liberated Europe.

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