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Object description
Images in this album include: a photograph entitled 'Window Display' featuring display panels used to encourage blood donors (see also album 129), three photographs entitled 'Miss Barbara Betts' following Miss Betts who edited a feature for the Daily Mirror focusing on the problems of service personnel, four photographs entitled 'Mrs Octavia Snow, OBE, WRNS' showing Mrs Snow and her daughter listening to the wireless (Mrs Snow was Chief Officer in Charge of Education for the WRNS and was awarded the OBE in 1944), series entitled 'Britain's Oil Pipeline', taken in January 1945, two photographs entitled 'Education Exhibition' one of which shows a man and two children reading beside the fire and the other shows a couple walking on the roof terrace at Senate House, both clearly taken for an MoI exhibition, series entitled 'The Lebanese Minister and his Family' following M. Camille Chamoun and his wife and two sons at their home at the Lebanese Legation at the corner of Great Peter Street and Cowley Street (Mr Chamoun was the first Lebanese Minister to be accredited to London), series entitled 'Training Instructors for the RAF's Educational and Vocational Training Scheme' showing WAAF and RAF personnel in training as part of the demobilisation process, including views in Manchester Central Library, and in lessons, series of photographs entitled 'Ambulance' showing an ambulance outside the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital branch at Brockley Hill, Stanmore, Middlesex, a photograph entitled 'Parliamentary Debates' showing a copy of Hansard, series entitled 'Laundry in Wartime' following the work of Gleniffer Laundry in Catford (see also album 129), a photograph entitled 'Hansard' showing a copy of the 'Commons' edition of Hansard, series entitled 'Watermill at War', following the work of Rossett Mill and possibly Erbistock Mill in Wales, series entitled 'British Craftsmen', following the work of file forgers, stamp makers, tool makers, metallurgists and spring makers, series entitled 'Teaching Tennis' showing a couple teaching two children the basics of tennis, series entitled 'Sparking Plugs for Flying Forts' (see also album 131) showing spark plugs being produced for USAAF bombers, series entitled 'Jettison Petrol Tanks' showing the production of lightweight petrol tanks produced for RAF and USAAF bombers, series entitled 'Meet Canada Exhibition' showing views of an exhibition about Canada held at a Liverpool store, series entitled 'Turkish Railway Delegation Visits Southern Railway Works', showing the delegation visiting the works at Eastleigh in Hampshire, series entitled 'Faireys Play Soccer' showing women of Fairey Aviation Works in Stockport playing football against women of AV Roe at Fallowfield in Manchester (see also album 131)