Residents of Links Avenue, Monkseaton, decided to construct their own communal air raid shelter shortly before the start of the Second World War....
Wartime bomb damage, Highgate Road, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, West Midlands, 29 July 1942. Artist James Nelson.
Councillor AJ Blake, Chairman of the Wartime Allotments Committee holding a megaphone and a sack of onions before launching an allotment exhibition...
Crowd of men, women and children make their way through the devastated streets of Canterbury, left homeless by a recent World War II bombing raid.
Air Mechanic Wrens of the Women's Royal Naval Service undertake maintenance on the cockpit and engine cowling of a Fleet Air Arm Fairey Albacore TB...
Year old Diana Holland rides a horse ahead of the volunteer Women's Observers from the village of Benhall as they go out on patrol to watch for...
The badly damaged Supermarine Spitfire V AD591 flown by Sgt Stefan Czachla of the No 306 Toru Polish Fighter Squadron, Royal Air Force Fighter...
Members of the L. D. V seen here completing a course of intensive training to prepare them as instructors in physical and bayonet training and...
Two civil defence firewatchers of the Air Raid Precaution scan the sky with binoculars searching for German Luftwaffe bombers from the rooftop of a...
Young children from the Jewish Fresh Air Home and School for Delicate Children busily tend their vegetable garden allotment plots as part of the Dig...
Searchlight operators preparing for a night bombing raid, Moscow, 1941. The Luftwaffe launched its first air raid on Moscow on 22 July 1941....
Demolition workers queuing for a hot cup of tea during their work demolishing bomb damaged buildings in London. Original Publication: Picture Post -...
Army personnel relax in a dance hall at Covent Garden, London. Original Publication: Picture Post - 1680 - Wartime Dance Hall - pub. 1944
An AFS girl lights a cigarette for a 'doughboy' or US soldier upon his arrival in London from Northern Ireland.
Female workers apply doped Madapollam fabric to the wing section of a de Havilland DH98 Mosquito twin-engined multirole fighter-bomber aircraft...
Queues forming outside a bakery in Streatham High Street, London, on the last day before bread rationing is introduced.
Newspaper seller carries a hoarding pronouncing the declaration of war between Britain and Germany, on the Strand, heading towards Admiralty Arch in...
Scene inside the British museum where the hall has been adapted as a restaurant for the public and staff during the Second World War.
Little girl has her hand shaken by an American soldier as his troop parade through the streets of London.
Members of the audience at a concert given by black American soldiers at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Original Publication: Picture Post - 1555 -...
The Home Front In Britain During The First World War, Soldiers smile for the camera as they wave cheerfully from the window of a leave train at...
Allied Chiefs Air Marshal Arthur Tedder , General Dwight D Eisenhower , and Field Marshall Bernard L. Montgomery , watch tank manoeuvres in...
The seven Mills sisters work side by side at a munitions factory in Enfield during World War II. From left to right, they are Kitty, Beryl, Irene,...
Evacuee schoolboys are given instruction through a YMCA scheme to correctly handle milk churns and other farm labouring work on 18th December 1941 at...
Long line of people queuing for their new ration card books along the street outside Caxton Hall National Registration Office on 10th January 1940 in...
Air raid shelterers at the 'Silver Lady' canteen in London, which had for several years served free meals to the needy.
Firefighters put out the last of the flames from a Lloyd's Bank building after a German air raid on London.
Lt. Col. Mitchell and his bride Matilda Vickers walk under a guard of honour formed by soldiers holding guns in the air.
Special prize winner on the visit by the King and Queen to the London & South West Railway allotments.
Champion of the Mersey Road Club R C Coward and the Liverpool Trials Champion E Murstill volunteer for the new corps of cyclist ARP messengers.
Mrs Hoyer of Kensington, London a war-widow parading with anti-travel posters among the holiday makers at Paddington, station, London.
Volunteers peel potatoes in a makeshift kitchen in preparation of the daily meal served to refugees evacuated from London on 9th November 1939 at a...
Wartime bomb damage, Highgate Road, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, West Midlands, 29 July 1942. Artist James Nelson.
Unusual sight in Birmingham when half of ton of solid gold bars were transported from Messers Collie and Co, commodity brokers of Newhall Street to...
Members of the Reading Home Guard jumping ditches on the blitz course, a formidable assault course, 15th June 1942.
Group of children on their way to school in west London, fully equipped for an evacuation rehearsal, 28th August 1939.
Social History, People, World War Two, pic: 1944, A Northampton woman saving water in a small tin bath as water restrictions bite during a drought.
London housewife places her butter rations into her basket while the grocer snips out the corresponding coupon from the ration book.