Description
Object description
Negatives generated by the Ministry of Works, and also held by them on behalf of a number of government ministries, including the Home Office, the Ministry of Town and Country Planning/Ministry of Housing., c.1930s-1950s. Individual series within the collection comprise the following:
ARP:
Air raid shelters
Bomb damage in Helsinki
ARP shelters, gas masks, fire fighting and fire fighting demonstrations
Amport House, RAF Chaplains, College
Bombing, bomb damage (Spanish Civil War) and types of bombs
Shelter plans
ARP station and equipment plans
ARP stores interiors and plans
Bombing of Shanghai, bombs and bomb damage
Windows, types and protection
Firefighting appliances, equipment and demonstrations
Waltham Abbey air raid damage
Winston Churchill as 1st Lord of Admiralty
RAF rolls of honour flyleaves
Air Ministry, St Catherines House, A 4068-70
Plans, etc, Weston super Mare, Birmingham schools, Adastral House, Home Office,
South East London Technical Institution, Brixton Hill Industrial School
Plans, domestic shelters
Air raid damage to Admiralty, C.T.O.,Imperial War Musuem, Albert memorial
Diagrams of German bombs, precautions
Poster
Firefighting equipment
B:
Bomb damage Bath
C:
RAF College Cranwell, exteriors and interiors including outbuildings and furniture and of portrait of King George V
Churchill
Cabinet
Cabinet War Rooms
Chequers
D:
Defence maps
Droitwich Radio War Office
Deal bomb damage
Devonport bomb damage
Decorations in Mall (VE Day)
Downing St interiors (PM and Mrs Churchills suite) and Cabinet War Rooms
D-Day preparation charts & maps
Defence maps
Dunwich Priory
G:
George VI (King) copy neg
H:
Heligoland aerial reconnaissance mosaic
Hawker Hurricane (diagrams)
Habbaniya (map of danger areas)
Hankow aerodrome
Heathrow plan
Home Guard Posters
Hal Far aerodrome, Malta, aerial view
Hucclecote bombing
Hamstede (Leeuwarden) aerodrome aerial reconnaissance
Hutted camps
Hairdressing styles
Home Guard posters
I:
Intelligence (mostly copied):
Iraq Oil Co.
Italian bombs & machine guns
German, Italian and Japanese aircraft
Italian aircraft, munitions and industry
Iraq Oil Co
Indian defence bases, aerial views
J:
Japanese aircraft, air force, munitions and steelworks
K:
Korat, India, aerial views
Karachi, India, airship base
Kittyhawk (Curtiss) spare parts
L:
Landing grounds in Philippines
Liverpool, air raid damage
Luqa and Loochow airfields
Link trainer
M:
Malta: Luftwaffe aerial reconnaissance & aerial views
Ministry of Aircraft Production.
Machine gun
Mosaics of Belgian and French coast during Second World War
Malta radio jamming
Mölders (German air ace)
Memorial chapel (RAF) Westminster Abbey, and Battle of Britain roll of honour includes CHP series photos.
Memorials:
RAF Memorial chapel 1947-1948: Battle of Britain memorial, written service of thanksgiving, items from interior of chapel, thanksgiving service and parade in London, personalities attending, 21 Sept 1947
RAF memorial, Embankment
RAF War memorials and plaques in UK
Roosevelt memorial, building of
Battle of Britain Roll of Honour
R:
Royal Air Force: aircraft, police dog training, apprentices, furniture, badges, Air Council presentations and receptions, Battle of Britain anniversary fly past London, 1948, and dinners, Malcolm Club opening: 1947 - 1948
Der Neue Frankfurt (1930)
RAF aerial archaeology views (O G S Crawford illustrations)
T:
Transport: Ministry of Transport, highway development schemes, maps and models, London and provinces, bridges, highways and trunk roads,
V:
Victory celebrations 1945: Victory Parade, including street lighting, street decorations, illuminations, route plans, displays, personalities
WP:
Tri-colour photography for Ministry of Town and Country Planning: including geological surveys and Ordnance Survey maps, also paintings; including portraits of King, Queen, RAF personalities, subjects by Dame Laura Knight, stained glass windows, RAF flags and badges
X:
Dugway US Army chemical warfare proving ground: German and Japanese test structures, buildings, housing, living quarters and interiors; supporting photographs of German and Japanese cities, housing, interiors, furniture, etc.