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1939 Collection

Background image1939 Collection: Binocular Testing

Binocular Testing
A line of girls tests each pair of binoculars made for the Services before it leaves the factory. Their employers, Ross Ltd of Clapham, the largest optical instrument manufacturer in the country

Background image1939 Collection: St Pauls Cathedral

St Pauls Cathedral
A view of St. Pauls Cathedral over the rooftops of the City of London, circa 1870. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1939 Collection: 1939 Supermarine Spitfire, side view

1939 Supermarine Spitfire, side view

Background image1939 Collection: Practice Guns

Practice Guns
A Royal Navy instructor checks the aim of huge dummy guns after pupils had aimed them at an imaginary target. The 15 guns are on a WWI vessel now used as a training ship

Background image1939 Collection: Gas Mask Squad

Gas Mask Squad
A detachment of soldiers stationed in the Home Counties undergoing revolver training in suburbia

Background image1939 Collection: Caterham Road

Caterham Road
A pedestrian using the underpass to avoid the traffic at Caterham in south east England

Background image1939 Collection: Frame Making

Frame Making
Picture frame making at St Dunstans, a home for blinded soldiers, sailors and airmen at Ovingdean, East Sussex

Background image1939 Collection: Telephone Hands

Telephone Hands
A man operating the telephone exchange at St Dunstans, a home for blinded soldiers, sailors and airmen, at Ovingdean, East Sussex

Background image1939 Collection: Novel Innovator

Novel Innovator
25th October 1929: English novelist, critic and essayist, Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941), Woolf is regarded as one of the great modern innovators of the novel. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1939 Collection: St Pauls Across The River

St Pauls Across The River
A view of St. Pauls Cathedral across the River Thames from Bankside, 1862. (Photo by Colonel H.W. Verschoyle/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1939 Collection: Warehouses And Cathedral

Warehouses And Cathedral
A view over the warehouses on the north bank of the Thames, to St. Pauls Cathedral, circa 1870. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1939 Collection: St Pauls From River

St Pauls From River
A view of St. Pauls Cathedral across the River Thames from Bankside, circa 1870. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Background image1939 Collection: St. Pauls Cathedral

St. Pauls Cathedral
A view of St. Pauls Cathedral over the rooftops of the City of London, circa 1870. (Photo by London Stereoscopic Company/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)


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