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  • 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 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 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.

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

  • Building Planes Building Planes

    (art) Made by: Armstrong, John 1940

    image: A view across a factory floor showing men working on the sub-structure of two aircraft. In the background, other figures working at lathes and machinery are spotlighted on the upper and lower floors of the factory.

  • A Knitting Party A Knitting Party

    (art) Made by: Dunbar, Evelyn Mary 1940

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

  • A Blockhouse Somewhere in England A Blockhouse Somewhere in England

    (art) Made by: Duffy, Louis 1943

    image: a blockhouse in a rural location. In the foreground there are six girders sunk into the ground, surrounded by rocks and cast concrete forms. In the background there is a row of similar concrete blocks running along the edge of a plowed field on a...

  • CEMA Canteen Concert, Isle of Dogs, London, E14, 1941 CEMA Canteen Concert, Isle of Dogs, London, E14, 1941

    (art) Made by: Rowntree, Kenneth 1941

    image: The interior of a large room, filled with people seated around tables. In the foreground there is a table stacked with plates, behind which stands a woman wearing an apron.

  • A Munitions Factory A Munitions Factory

    (art) Made by: Elwell, Frederick William (RA) 1944

    image: Interior of a munitions factory with women working on lathes and other machinery

  • SERVICE OF LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER HAROLD NEWGASS, GC, RNVR, AS A BOMB DISPOSAL OFFICER DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR. SERVICE OF LIEUTENANT-COMMANDER HAROLD NEWGASS, GC, RNVR, AS A BOMB DISPOSAL OFFICER DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR.

    part of "NEWGASS HAROLD (LIEUTENANT COMMANDER GC RNVR)" (photographs)

    A member of a team of conscientious objectors serving with a Royal Engineers bomb disposal squad, and a naval rating of Lieutenant Commander Newgass' Admiralty RMS (Rendering Mines Safe) team, digging a hole to reach a mine found buried in the grounds of...

  • AERO FACTORY GIRLS: AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION IN BRITAIN, MARCH 1942 AERO FACTORY GIRLS: AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION IN BRITAIN, MARCH 1942

    part of "MINISTRY OF LABOUR SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION" (photographs) Made by: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer

    Two women workers sit inside the cockpit of an aircraft as they wire up the pilot's instrument panel, at a factory somewhere in Britain. According to the original caption, one woman is a GTC (Government Training Centre) trainee, and the other has been...

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