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Images in this album include: members of the Home Guard watch as cargo is loaded onto a ship bound for New York, series 'A Gift from the Argentine' - showing an inspection of 59th Surrey Home Guards on Sunday 14 September, by Major General N B Anderson CB CMG DSO at presentation of 2 utilicon cars by non-British members of the Bank of London & South America Ltd., series of photographs Marxs House at 41 Maitland Park Road, London NW3, series Birth of a British Tank follows the construction of a tank (good views in the factory, and of building engines), series of photographs taken around London including, 30 Holford Square (Lenin once lived here), off-duty members of the AFS drinking outside the Jack Straws Castle pub, Marxs House in Clerkenwell, and views of Sidmouth Street, Greys Inn Road, and the new ARP post off Holford Square, series of photographs relating to the radio programme Answering You including the Civil Servants Clerical Association Committee meeting, Z A Bokhari (a Sikh member of Home Guard given special permission to wear a turban), members of the AFS at work, planning and recording the boradcast in the studio, views of Edward Hulton (proprietor of Hulton Press) and a colleague fire-watching, and recording in Victoria Gardens, Victoria Embankment (House of Parliament on the background) the host Michael Standing talks to various members of the public, two photographs of Harry Pollitt speaking to a very large crowd outside the British Museum, photographs of Sir Frederick Leith Ross, photographs of munitions workers in a Ministry of Supply factory shelter, an ARP warden and a roof spotter at a Ministry of Supply factory, photographs of Vice Admiral Sir Gerald Dickens KCVO CMG CB, Vice Admiral Muselier, First Sea Lord Vice Hon A V Alexander PC MP, Rear Admiral Sir Henry Harwood KCB, and some Free French Officers looking at maps and drinking in a pub, a photograph of the Orford WVS and Orford Garden Club looking at beans grown from seed presented by Mrs Roosevelt, bomb damage and street scenes in London, photograph of the grave of Karl Marx, series London Buses in Wartime includes views of masked head lamps, interior lights, bus drivers in summer coats, female recruit at London Transport training centre, and a bus conductor.
