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Object description
Images in this album include: series entitled Newfoundland Troops in England, showing the Newfoundland Heavy Artillery Regiment in training, series of photographs showing members of the Girls' Brigade (?) planting seeds in bomb-damaged areas and near bomb-damaged buildings, photographs of bomb damage (location unknown), series of photographs of a salvage exhibition held in Oxford D 8934 shows the photographs of paper being re-used to make bullets, as featured in album 37 - D 7120 - D 7289), photograph entitled 'Mexican Minister Decorates Cuban Minister' - Senor Lie Do Alfonso de Rosenweig Diaz presents Senor Don Guillermo de Blanck with the Order of the Astee Eagle on 2 July 1942, series of photographs entitled Womens Street Cleaning Brigade following women of St Pancras Borough Council who clean the streets and empty the 'pig bins', series entitled Britains Youth Prepares East End Meets West End members of various boys' clubs gradually turn bomb damaged areas into allotments sowing seeds sent to them from America, series entitled Bomber Station includes photographs of crew and aircraft, as well as aircraft being serviced and testing tyre pressure, loading bombs onto Stirling bomber and WAAFs, sequence of posed MoI photographs including people with gas masks looking up, a man reading a newspaper and listening to the wireless, and of domestic life such as a dripping tap, washing up, someone washing their hands, a coal hole, a kettle boiling, and a light switch (clearly to be used in an exhibition on waste or saving resources), a photographs of a nurse and Lord Latham by a portrait of a nurse, a series of portraits of miners (including young boys) at Horden Colliery and view of the colliery itself, series entitled 'Mansion becomes Maternity Home' - staff and patients from the City Road Hospital in London have transferred to Brocket Hall (the former residence of Lord Brocket) - features photographs of mothers and babies, mothers in bed in wards, staff relaxation, hospital vegetable patch, and portraits of nurses in the grounds, series entitled Nursery for Working Mothers which features residents at Flint Green Road Nursery in Birmingham.