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War Office - Whitehall [ministry of defence] [photo undated]
Eltham Palace 15 September 1947
Woman brushing hair in front of the mirror in her bedroom. [no caption, location or date]
Home front 1940. A residential area showing signs of being heavily damaged after a night raid from German bombers in the Bexleyheath area. (Lower left can be seen an Anderson shelter)
Bomb damage. Rescue squads in Hackney, East London, worked unceasingly under a dangerous tottering wall and brought out a youth who had been completely buried under the debris of a house for twelve
The rebuilding of Coventry City, England. A stall inside the bombed Cathedral accepts contributions to the Coventry Cathedral reconstruction and maintenance fund 1948
A typical London tramp at home on Embankment. 7 November 1945
The South Africa House, in Trafalgar Square. 7 November 1945
General view of City of London looking up towards St Pauls Cathedral
The entrance to the Burlington Arcade, London. 1948
Home front 1940. Destroyed home in Sidcup, after a German air raid
Looking down on a busy Covent Garden flower, fruit and vegetable market full of stacked fruit and vegetable boxes with lorries unloading right by the entrance to St Pauls Church, Covent Garden
Home front 1940. Air raid damage, Crayford
Parliament Square, London, decorated figure victory celebrations will stop when the shadow of Big Ben a 50 feet tower bearing the flags of the 51 Allied nations
Damage caused to Sidcups main road during the German aerial onslaught
The exterior of Ashton Court. 11 May 1947
Floods, caused by the recent bad weather, endangered the water supplies thousands of the East and North London people when they found that their taps were either dry or delivering muddy water, today
A symptom of spring and the housing problem is provided by a mallard duck with distinctly urban traits who has chosen a window box on the parapet high above Trafalgar Square
The River Thames, swollen by recent boring and heavy rain, has flooded a wide area of Riverside Counties. Many towns in Surrey, Berkshire, and Middlesex are seriously flooded. 17 March 1947
The famous Russian dancer and choreographer, Leonide Massine, has his first speaking part in " a bullet in the valet", which opens in Edinburgh on October 1 and after visits to Blackpool
Mentioned as a portable Londoners for her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth after her marriage to return Philip Mountbatten, is Clarence House, St Jamess Palace
Battle of Britain fly past rehearsal. More than 120 aircraft of the Royal Air Force and the Czech Air Force roared over London today in a rehearsal for the Battle of Britain fly past which is to take
Female clerks, staff from Woman magazine, leaving the office, London, England. 13 August 1949
Us Secretary of Treasury. Here for world bank talks. Mr John W Snyder, US Secretary of the Treasury, arrived in the Queen Elizabeth at Southampton today to attend the annual meeting of
Sir Edward Wilshaw KCMC chairman. Photo shows: portrait of Sir Edward in his office. 11 June 1946
The first contingent of British settlers to leave for Australia under the migration agreements signed between the governments of the United Kingdom and Australia left London for Tilbury
The fountains in Trafalgar Square, London, England. 1940s, 1950s
Home front 1940. Children in amongst the debris and rubble of Northfleet houses have been hit by German aerial bombs
Home front 1940. Destroyed house lies dormant after German bombers had finished their bombing in Crayford
The Burlington Arcade, London. Overseas visitors find traditional British quality in the narrow covered passage which is one of the worlds most exclusive shopping centres
American troops in ceremonial march through London. For the first time since 1917, US troops paraded through London as they marched from Grosvenor Square to the City of London to lunch at
Home front 1940. A house in the Bexley area, showing considerable damage, surrounded by debris after a near miss from German bombs
The squatters who have commandeered Duchess of Bedford house, a block of luxury flats in Kensington, are still firmly established in spite of the efforts of Ministry of works officials who
More furniture was moved into the Duchess of Bedford house, (the block of luxury flats in West Kensington recently taken over by squatters)
House destroyed by an air raid from German bombers
People in Fountain Court in the Middle Temple, Inns Of Court, London, England. 1930s, 1940s
Firemen fighting a blazing five-storey building of Story and Co. Furnishers. The fire is believed to have started in the basement, and soon the blaze spread to the entire building
Ministry of works officials who made a forced entry at Duchess of Bedford house, the block of luxury flats in West Kensington taken over by squatters today, Wednesday
Beverly Minister. Surrounded by centuries-old yews, the ageing stone pile of Beverley Minister points its graceful Twin Towers to the sky
London housewives queued in their patient thousands from early morning today, Friday, to buy sufficient bread to type their homes over the victory and Whitsun holidays
Women market traders at Londons Covent Garden flower, fruit and vegetable market, stopping for lunch amongst the fruit and vegetable boxes. Late 1940s, early 1950s
Heavy rain washed out part of the government party held at Hampton Court Palace last night. The King and Queen Anne Queen Mary were among the thousand guests at the reception for Dominion
A plaque of the world-famous orthopaedic specialist Sir Herbert Barker is to hang above a bed and in his name at St Thomass Hospital, Westminster, when extensive war damaged the building is repaired
A market porter transports a sack of vegetables on his head, while women market traders sit and have their lunch behind him at Covent Gardens flower, fruit and vegetable market, Covent Garden
People enjoying the sunshine and the fountains in Trafalgar Square, London, England. 1940s, 1950s
Sir Cyril Harcomb, Chairman of the New British Transport Commission at his desk in the Ministry of Transport building, London
Home front 1940. clearing up after a raid at Sidcup
Home front 1940. An end of terrace house destroyed after a raid on Eltham by German bombers
