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Object description
Images in this album include: series entitled 'At the Lebanese Legation' following the work of Minister M Camille Chamoun and his team (continued from album 131), an unidentified soldier, series entitled 'Government of India Mission to London' featuring lunch at Claridge's on 7 February 1945, series entitled 'Automatic Telephone Exchange' showing the work of the various departments, including filing, at switchboard and various views of equipment, photograph entitled 'London in the XVIth Century' featuring a framed drawing of London in the time of Henry VIII upside down on a chair, series entitled 'Belgian Commandos in Training' featuring various views of Belgian soldiers of 10th Commando in training including in a classroom, rifle practice, swinging from ropes, PT and on the march, photograph entitled 'Hansard' showing the House of Lords report Vol. 134, No.19, 1st February 1945, series entitled 'Bevin Boy' following training at the training school at the colliery in Ollerton - includes views of the classroom, views of the mining village, and in the mine itself, an unidentified soldier, series entitled 'Tabard Players play 'Oliver Twist' in Inn Yard' showing the performance on a makeshift stage in the courtyard of 'The George' in Southwark, series entitled 'Farewell Lunch to Co-Operative Delegates Visiting China', sequence of uncaptioned photographs of ATS ambulance drivers includes views of washing the ambulance, driving and meal time, series entitled 'London Fashion Designers' showing various models posing in expensive dresses, including a wedding dress and various evening gowns, as designed by members of the Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers, an uncaptioned photograph of delegates at an international conference, a drawing of a globe showing various distances, a posed MoI photograph of a soldier cleaning his boots, photograph entitled 'Yugoslav Delegation' showing the delgation that visited the World's Trade Union Congress at County Hall in London in February 1945, photograph entitled 'Miss Barbara Bates' - Miss Bates was the recruiting officer for the General and Manufacturing Workers Union in Manchester, series entitled 'Old Man of the Sea' following Thomas Huntley Wood, aged 77, a retired Chief Petty Officer, series entitled 'Science in Peace' showing views of the 2-day open conference held on 17 and 18 February 1945 by the Association of Scientific Workers, series entitled 'Exhibition at County Hall' featuring MoI display panels in English, French and Spanish for visitors to the Trades Union Congress, photograph entitled 'Old man of the Sea' showing CPO Thomas Huntley Wood on board HMS EDINBURGH with life buoy, as featured in a newspaper, series entitled 'A Rest Break Home for Nurses' following life at the Bedford Hotel, Buxton, which was taken over by the British War Relief Society in 1943, photograph of the church of St George the Martyr in Southwark, series entitled 'New Style Dancing Arrives' showing good views of people jiving in a dance hall, series entitled 'A Substitute for Quinnine' showing the production of Mepacrine, series entitled 'Desert Rats' featuring stills from a play written by Captain Colin Morris, the official observer with 7th Armoured Division, produced in Brighton in February 1945 (see also album 133).