Description
Object description
Images in this album include: series of photographs of Civil Defence/Air Raid Precaution measures such as: wire mesh on bus windows, headlamp covers, stretcher party ambulance/van, and a stretcher carrier van/lorry, photographs of the Charbonnel and Walker shop front, Red Cross shop front, an air raid shelter sign in situ under a poster for the Orient Line to Australia in Westminster, Travel Information office, HM Forces Information Office in Trafalgar Square, surface shelters in Trafalgar Square, benches/bunks in tube shelters, stirrup pumps, shelter sign, gas detector board, anti-shatter panels in London buses, dry cleaners shop front, Building Centre, Dolcis shoe display, siren controlled from Police Telephone Box, more views of surface shelters and anti-shatter mesh on buses, also a stretcher party ambulance, sequence relating to 'The Great Synagogue', in Dukes Place, Ministry of Information photograph of a running tap (possibly to be used in an exhibition or poster), letter to Winston Churchill from US president Roosevelt dated 20 June 1941 (quoted in broadcast by Churchill on 9 February 1942?), radiators for Harvard American Red Cross Hospital being delivered, good sequence following a young woman as she starts work at a Ministry of Supply shell filling factory - includes good views of shell and fuse production and mealtime, men holding steel stretcher, series entitled 'London in the Spring of 1941' includes various scenes including Regent Street, views of street markets and flower sellers, bookstalls, the streets around St Martin-in-the-Fields, Fleet Street, Coventry Street, a restaurant at Aldwych, Embankment Gardens, view across the river to County Hall, choosing a hat at a milliner's, Speakers Corner,views around Hyde Park, Waterloo Station, Leicester Square, and a tea dance, a series of photographs showing bomb damage to buildings in Nuttal St., Shoreditch, showing how the air raid shelters have survived, AFS exhibition for New York (set up in the foyer of Ministry of Information HQ), Dr. Taylor, scenes in a government filling factory, test of timber ceiling supports to prevent total collapse of a building during an air raid, and a series entitled 'An American Nurse in Britain' - follows Sister Trotter in a typical day at the hospital, including views of ward rounds, blood transfusion, X-ray, tea in the nurses lounge, and on a trip to London - including views of the damaged Overseas League HQ in St James' Street, Regent Street, train journey to visit her husband Flying Officer James Trotter in hospital in the North of England.