1940s Collection (#15)

Wedding of Mr Donald J Dickman and Miss Betty N Swinhoe at Kensington Register Office, London. 25 April 1940

Student pilots take time out from aviation problems to go fishing in the Delaware River © TopFoto

A police officer chats with a woman outside the Barbary Coast Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada

While the father of Mary Maguire, the film actress, is serving as bat man with BEF in France, her mother, Mrs Michael Maguire, and for other daughters are living in a maisonnette in Devonshire Place

Flat Race Fashion. Seen at the opening of the flat-race season at Lincoln today (Saturday) is this " basket" straw topped with roses and held in place with veiling

The public made the collecting of aluminium for converting into planes construction, a huge success. Mrs Hartnell ( Mayor of Chelsea ) at the Town Hall. 11 July 1940

Cora Goffin, the well - known British comedy actress, waves to the camera onboard ship

Tonight the story newly is Davies of London will marry her fiance ex--American army air force Sgt JD moral-she will be by the telephone at a friends house in Stamford Hill

Brown and white gingham shirt and matching Timmins on a pert halo hat make effective match for this smart spring suit in lime green hop-sack, one by British film starred Greta Gynt

First dip of the season was a happy occasion for these holiday girls at Bournemouth. They lost no time in making a concerted dash across the dunes to the sea before the fickle sun changed its mind

Although the south coast was whipped by a strong south easterly winds today these 2 hardy visitors were determined that a David be included in the holiday

ATS girls leaving their headquarters in Hastings, Sussex today found their surroundings transformed into a fairyland of snow. 27 February 1946

British Wardrobe For Americas Cotton Maid Americas 1948 Maid of Cotton nineteen-year-old
British Wardrobe For Americas " Cotton Maid" Americas 1948 " Maid of Cotton" nineteen-year-old blonde Texan Matilda Nail

The Finnish Ambassador, M Grippenberg, leaving the Legation, after receiving the news of Armistice 13 March 1940

Bumper Australian wheat crop will aid starving Europe after World War II food shortage. Eight horses tandem team, one of the few remaining in Parkes, pulls header on W.H. Paveys field

Harrowing the cabbage crop on the shore of the Thames at Manor Farm, Crossness, near Woolwich London 1949

Land girls manage a dairy farm in Hartley, Kent. 4th January 1940

Winter work indoors. Sorting Majestic seed potatoes - a job for the snowy weather on W Rogers farm at Horton Kirby in Kent. 10 February 1947 eTopFoto

This is Mr Philip Rye and his wife, who have lived in the hut shown in the picture for six and a half years with thier six children

King George VI inspects Sea cadets on Navy Day at Chatham in Kent. 12 July 1948 An award winning photograph eTopFoto

Kent - Dartford Paper Mills fire which burnt for three days - 3 March 1949 eTopFoto

Cherry picking at a farm near Gravesend in Kent June 1946

1940 King George VI visits an a post in South East England

9 November 1940 Bomb damage after a Nazi bombing raid. Sidcup, Kent, England

Doug Hollands blacksmith forge, over 100 years old, pictured before it was bombed and damaged during a Nazi bombing raid in 1940. Sidcup, Kent, England

Mr Philip Rye and family - wife and six children, who had lived in this hut at Crockenhill in Kent for more than six years - 5 November 1948 eTopFoto

A Horsedrawn snow plough clearing the road near Eynsford 1940s

Bagging potatoes in cold winter snow. 1947

Hop wiring on stilts - January 1947 A TopFoto
Hop wiring on stilts - January 1947 eTopFoto

While Britain shivers in the grip of a cold spell and fuel cuts, Victoria, Australia is experiencing a record fruit crop in the Goulburn Valley

Britain needed food, nothwithstanding the harsh winter. Ploughing, 4 horse team

Sheep being hand clipped in Wales

Ploughing in a snowstorm when Britain needed food - January 1947 A TopFoto
Ploughing in a snowstorm when Britain needed food - January 1947 eTopFoto

John Clark and his farm in Rainham, Kent cherry picking July 1946

9 November 1940 A rescue party look for survivors in the bomb damage of a collapsed building after a Nazi bombing raid. Bexleyheath, Kent, England

Schoolboy sweeping debris after his Gravesend home in Kent had been damaged by a bomb during WWII

Rescue at a factory in Bexley, Kent after a bomb during the Blitz - 30 September 1940 eTopFoto

Ploughing in snowstorm January 1947

Vapour trails over Sidcup suggest a dogfight - aerial combat between fighter aircraft.1940 eTopFoto

9 November 1940 Lucky escape after a collapsed ceiling crushed the bed during bomb damage in a Nazi bombing raid. Sidcup, Kent, England

It was drinks on the Major on Monday for a battery of Kent a gunners who bagged three Dornier 17s inside one minute on Sunday, 8th September

Fire at the Darford Paper Mills in Kent which burnt for three days - 3 March 1949 eTopFoto

500th anniversary of Wye College - attended by Archbishop of Canterbury - During the 500th anniversary celebrations of Wye Agricultureal College, near Ashford, Kent, the service in Wye Parish Church

Thames Barges moored next to The Cutty Sark on the River Thames off Greenhithe, Kent. 24 June 1948

Cookery lesson in 1946 A TopFoto
Cookery lesson in 1946 eTopFoto

Mrs Henniker making fencing poles at Chilham Kent 1949

The worlds largest liner, the canard white star Queen Elizabeth, undergoes her
The worlds largest liner, the canard white star " Queen Elizabeth", undergoes her speed trials in the Clyde next week. The Queen and the princesses will be aboard

The 26, 000 ton liner America, the largest and fastest ever built in the United States
The 26, 000 ton liner " America", the largest and fastest ever built in the United States, arrived at Southampton on her maiden commercial voyage from New York

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