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• War Weapons Week in a Country Town

  (art) Made by: Ford, Michael 1941

  image: A street scene in a small town. A brass band, Girl Guides, Police and Home Guard participate in War Weapons Week outside a community hall and are watched by a crowd of civilians. Union flags are on display and a speech is being made from a...

• Home Guards brewing Tea just before Dawn

  (art) Made by: Ford, Michael 1941

  image: Two Home Guards inside a small wooden hut, brewing tea by candlelight.

• A Sunday Morning with the Home Guard: Enemy HQ Taken at the Point of the Bayonet

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1941

  image: A group of home guards are seen rushing down a country lane and turning to the right through a gate next to a house. There is one soldier lagging behind further down the lane.

• A Sunday Morning with the Home Guard: Storming an Enemy Post

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1941

  image: A country lane with a group of home guards rushing along. They are turning a corner, through a gate next to a small low building. There is one man, further down the lane, lagging behind.

• A Sunday Morning with the Home Guard: Advance on the First Objective

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1941

  image: A group of Home Guards moving through parkland towards a large house. The men at the front, near the house, are lying on the ground while the others appear to be running.

• A Sunday Morning with the Home Guard: The Commandant Lets Off One Of His Crackers

  (art) Made by: Ardizzone, Edward Jeffrey Irving 1941

  image: In the foreground we see the side of a shed and four uniformed men hiding behind it. To the left of this is an open area in the centre of which is a smoking cracker on the floor. Men run away from it in all directions.

• 'Let Us Go Forward Together'

  (posters) Made by: Keely, Pat (artist) 1943

  whole: the image is positioned in the upper three-quarters, with two smaller images located in the lower quarter. The title is partially integrated and placed in the lower quarter, in black. The text is separate and placed along the bottom edge, in brown...

• Captain Pauline Gower of the Women's Air Transport Auxiliary Women's Work in the War (Other than the Services) - Six lithographs by Ethel Gabain

  (art) Made by: Gabain, Ethel Leontine (artist) 1941

  image: An image of a female pilot poised above the cockpit of a plane. She is dressed in a flying cap, goggles, and wears a shirt and tie underneath her jacket. The plane's wing struts run diagonally across the image.

• WVS Settlement, Fairford. Ivor Tully, an evacuee from Barking

  (art) Made by: Allan, Rosemary

  image: A young boy sits on a chair, looking out of the frame towards the right. He is wearing wellingtons and shorts and appears to be in a domestic setting.

• A Knitting Party

  (art) Made by: Dunbar, Evelyn Mary 1940

  image: A large room with a party of women sitting in chairs and knitting