Description
Object description
Images in this album include: series entitled Turkish Journalists in London, showing the journalists at a railway station as they prepare to depart (see also albums 52, 53 and 55), posed photographs of fire wardens using a stirrup pump indoors, a Ministry of Information posed portrait of a family (mother, grandmother and two children),sequence of photographs of the same family in an air raid shelter, and at a rest centre, including views of a nurse taking the pulse of the grandmother, the children washing and playing, mealtime, and the mother talking to Public Assistance Officer and Welfare Adviser, another photograph of a woman working a stirrup pump, series entitled 'Bomber Station' -a sequence of head and shoulders portraits of a bomber crew from the 'conversion section', training pilots in aircraft with which they are not familiar (nose of aircraft (Stirling?) visible in the background), series entitled Soldiers Son following Mrs Irene Stacey through her pregnancy and after the birth of her son Peter Winston, includes some good views in a maternity hospital, a telegram from his father to celebrate the news and a photograph of the baby's christening, two photographs of a notice to evacuate the Channel Islands - one in The Evening Press, Wednesday September 16, 1942 and one in The Star, Saturday September 26, 1942, more photographs of the bombed out family at a rest centre, series entitled From Medals to Sten Guns, showing how a factory that produced medals and trophies before the war is manufacturing Sten guns, photographs of an RAF car driver, a head and shoulders portrait of an ATS Private, series entitled Convoy to Russia Casualties showing merchant seamen in hospital, a photograph of a bucket of coal (used in a Ministry of Information exhibition on fuel transport - see D 13904 (album 76)), series entitled Londoners Meals Service' a good series of photographs showing food preparation and eating at the British Restaurant held in the Fishmongers' Hall in London, series entitled Norwegian Paper in Britain includes views of the newspaper office and printing of the paper, series entitled Production Committee showing various members of a factory workforce, showing the various stages of production, head and shoulders portrait of two female firewatchers, sequence of photographs of a man working a stirrup pump, two studio photographs of the mother of the family in the rest centre, series entitled Part-time Women War Workers includes women involved in milk delivery, looking after children so that their mothers can go to work in factories, aircraft factory work (including work in the factory kitchens and canteen), series entitled Tapley Park Childrens Home (The Chaim Weizmann Home), includes views of children playing outdoors, cleaning their teeth and mealtime.