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Object description
Images in this album include: a portrait of Miss Lena Chivers, series entitled Belgian Independence Day Tea Party at Famous London Store Roof Gardens, July 21 1942, which includes photos of Belgian ambassador (Baron de Cartier de Marchienne) and Belgian soldiers, series entitled Darby and Joan War-Workers following pensioners in the village of Manuden in Essex, who are working for war effort includes views of agricultural work, meal with family, daily life, and making a haystack, series of photographs relating to a London University ceremony (features Brendan Bracken), series entitled 'Village Home Guard' including views of training (including with bayonets and grenades) of these Home Guards in their daytime jobs, series of photographs entitled 'Woman Runs Aircraft Factory' following Mrs Rosamund Burke who runs an aircraft factory turning out small precision parts for the aircraft industry, who is also a mother to three children, also includes a photograph of her with her mother (Hon Priscilla Lady Norman JP CBE), photograph of a Kent badge of the Womens Land Army, a photograph of a hut or shed on an allotment, series entitled On the Move in Wartime London features barges on the Thames, buses, train station, views of Marble Arch, Piccadilly Circus, Regent Street, two shots of fruit delivery at Covent Garden, boy on bicycle, street cleaners (male and female), female bus conductor, horse and carts used due to petrol rationing, salvage van, flower seller in Piccadilly, milk delivery woman and road men at work, series entitled Underground Factory relating to a factory for aircraft parts in a disused quarry in the West of England, includes views of workers housing, the social facilities of the factory (library, canteen kitchen, canteen) and of the factory itself, series entitled All-In War Worker relating to Mrs Hasler who is a mother, nurse, housewife, gardener, office worker and warden features good photographs of gardening, shopping, work in Claims and Records Office, and her war work as ARP warden, a photograph of a row of children asleep on cots or camp beds beside a hedge.