Nineteen Forties Collection (page 2)

A couple walking in the rain under an umbrella in Deans Yard, Westminster Abbey, London, England. 1940s, 1950s

Fish porters, traders and barrow boys in Billingsgate Fish Market, Lower Thames Street, London with St Magnus the Martyr church in background. Late 1940s, early 1950s

A crowd gathered outside the Ivanhoe hotel, Bloomsbury, London today. To listen to an address from the squatters inside, who are in a state of siege. They took over the premises last night

Home front 1940. Destroyed house in the Dartford area after a German air raid

BOAC flying boat 20 April 1946

Lovers in Hyde Park - kissing like valentines day May 1947 love couple romance romantic for valentines day be my valentine

A Romany mother with her baby sitting on the steps of her caravan on Epsom Downs during the races at Epsom race course, Surrey, England. Late 1940s, early 1950s

A Romany gypsy mother holds her baby at the Epsom Races. Late 1940s, early 1950s

A Romany gypsy boy at the Epsom race meeting. Late 1940s, early 1950 s
A Romany gypsy boy at the Epsom race meeting. Late 1940 s, early 1950 s

Patricia Purser, 18, of Camberwell, who has been elected Merchant Navy Queen of Lambeth
Patricia Purser, 18, of Camberwell, who has been elected " Merchant Navy Queen" of Lambeth. She will be crowned at a ceremony which opens Lambeth Merchant Navy Comfort Service Week

Continuing the week-long International Folk Dance Festival and rally being held by Scouts and guides from nine nations, representatives from Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England, France

Royal Netherlands Ambassador in London Edgar Michiels van Verduynen. Presentation of bronze plaque by the Netherlands to thank the BBC, committee at broadcasting house

A royal garden party. Their majesties the King and Queen this afternoon (Tuesday). Entertained 7000 guests at the first post-war Royal Garden Party at Buckingham Palace

Tommy Handley, Joan Harbin, Molly Weir and Tini Goss, drop-in at the local before giving a complete Itma show to 500 ex-servicemen at a Welcome Home in the tiny Sussex village of Wadhurst

Traditional Christmas Cattle Fair. At Battle, Sussex, they held the cattle Fair where eager buyers crowded round the auctioneer while he extolled the prime qualities of a handsome beast that may help

Daniel Carpio, a noted Peruvian swimmer and holder of the South American Championships, began training at Hastings Bathing Pool for an attempt on English Channel

Royal Engineers are removing the concrete dragons teeth defence blocks on the front at Hastings
Royal Engineers are removing the concrete " dragons teeth" defence blocks on the front at Hastings, Sussex. The blocks, weighing nearly three tons each, are loosened by a bull-dozer

HMS Woodcock, the British Royal Navy sloop. She is adopted by Cuckfield and district, Sussex

Floods in Sussex. The thaw which followed recent heavy snow has caused serious flooding in many parts of the country. Photo shows, a wide area of the Sussex countryside underwater at Robertsbridge

Study in disdain. Little Gillian Denman, of Pulborough, Sussex, made her first visit to the London Zoo at the age of two, and wanted badly to take Peggy, the camel for its first walk of the season

Smoke and debris thrown skywards after a direct hit from a German bomb in the suburbs

Home front 1940. Showing the destruction caused by German bombing, Brits go about their normal daily business, even in the throes of war

The Lord Mayor of Budapest, Hungary, Jozsef Kovago, arrived at Croydon by air. He has come from Budapest at the invitation of the London County Council to study English methods of housing

Champion American newspaper boy arrives in London. When the American Minneapolis Star and Tribune newspaper decided to celebrate its new building by delivering todays issue all around the world

Home front 1940. Bomb damage at Crayford

A destroyed home, after a German air raid

Busy market porters carrying boxes on their heads at Covent Gardens flower, fruit and vegetable market near to the entrance of St Pauls Church, Covent Garden, London, England. Late 1940s, early 1950s

Boys fishing by the riverside on the Thames at Richmond, London, England, UK. 1950s

Today, Monday, the eve of the Palestine conference, members of the British delegation Heighington Lancaster house, St James s, London, to meet delegates from 7 Arab nations, Egypt, Iraq, Syria

Home front 1940. Destroyed home in the Crayford area, after a German air raid

Two young girls in a bathroom, standing by a sink. [no caption, location or date]

A baby girl squatter from Duchess of Bedford house, (the block of luxury flats in West Kensington recently taken over by squatters) was taken by ambulance to hospital this morning

The famous Hastings and St Leonard Bathing Pool reputed to be the finest in Europe opened on Whit-Saturday for its first season on a pre-war scale

A Russian WW2 propaganda poster. 1941

British World War II cartoon. Poster: In Germany, anti-government posters are forbidden

Fay Taylour, Speedways Queen of the cinders, hopes to return to the saddle. Frank Arnold, West Hams team manager, has invited her to take part in a trial

A speed trial held at Elstree, near Watford, on Easter Monday under the auspices of the Vintage Sports Car Club attracted entries from nine other clubs, and for the first time since 1939

A wide area of Berkshire lies underwater following the overflowing of the river Thames at Maidenhead after recent phenomenon of the heavy rains

In thousands of British homes this Christmas, rich plum puddings, which are earning precious dollars, will be on the menu

Nurses of Londons Westminster Hospital rehearsing the carols they will sing at Christmas. After touring the wards, they go through the gardens back to the nurses home, where they end their recital

The twenty four finalists from all over the country who will tonight compete for the title " 1948 National Ballroom Queen" at Grosvenor House, London

Children playing in dock side street, Silvertown, London, England 1946

Man cutting corn with a scythe - harvesting by hand. Picture shows Fred Goldup, aged 72, working on a farm near Shoreham, Kent

Womans Land Army 1940 Kent

Battle of Britain pilots from Biggin Hill spent many off - duty hours in the White Hart Pub in Brasted, Kent, where the replica board on which they signed their names can still be seen

Fire broke out in Britains biggest post-war merchant ship, but Corinthic, in her fitting out basis, at Birkenhead. Built for the New Zealand passenger cargo service of Shaw

The 263 mile pipelines of the scheme known as Pluto, which carried petrol and oil
The 263 mile pipelines of the scheme known as " Pluto", which carried petrol and oil from the Isle of Wight to the Cherbourg peninsula during the war

The SS Viking of the Isle of Man Steam Packet Co Ltd

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