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Object description
Images in this album include: a photograph of Turkish journalists visiting bomb-damaged London accompanied by Civil Defence wardens, series of original drawings of designs for Utility clothes designed by Incorporated Society of Fashion Designers for Board of Trade, including some by Hardy Amies (some also include a fabric sample), series of portrait photographs of WAAF drivers in their vehicles, series entitled Mount Barten Farm relating to the work of farmer Ralph Hoare and his staff on his arable and dairy farm, various views including thatching a silo, planting kale, unloading lime, hoeing sugar beet, feeding calves and chickens and dipping sheep, photographs of a small crane unloading at the docks, short sequence of photographs featuring a housewife at the grocer's, includes good views of the shop window (with anti-blast tape in a grid pattern), series of photographs of a model of a landing craft (LCA - Landing Craft (Assault)), series about the village of Much Hadham in Hertfordshire, focussing particularly on a Ministry of Information exhibition about the Red Army held in old butchers shop called The Opportunity Shop, also features a view of the forge and a thatched cottage, photographs of a diagram of a map of the UK and Northern Europe showing a 150 mile radius, a 350 mile radius and so on from London, photograph of a pooled delivery van (local companies shared one delivery driver to save on fuel and wages), photograph of a mouse trap, series of photographs entitled The Farmers Son, which follows Colin Hoare (Ralph Hoare's son) at Mount Barten Farm as he follows in his father's footsteps, includes views of Colin feeding the pigs, driving the cows after milking, cleaning his gun and treating sheep for foot rot, series of photographs entitled 'Hollow Moor showing land that had previously been common land given over to crops - it is an experiment looking at the performance of 'Tennessee Valley Triple Phosphate' on oats, photographs of the Turkish ambassador H E Bay Rauf Orbay at a reception at the MoI, series of posed MoI photographs of a woman and bicycle, a warehouse clerk on the telephone, war workers and buses, and examples of a well-loaded and badly-loaded lorry, photographs of Dean Lynn Harold Hough outside City Temple in Holborn, London.