Home Front Collection (page 3)

Bomb Damage
7th July 1917: Damage to Little Britain in the City of London, after a German air-raid. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Shelter Interior
May 1918: Inside the YMCA air raid shelter in the Strand. Posters on the wall show life at the front. (Photo by Booth/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Ludgate Circus
12th March 1918: Ludgate Circus in the City of London with a shadowy St Pauls in the background. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Crowd Consensus
13th July 1918: Part of huge crowd at Intern Them All meeting, Trafalgar Square. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

City Traffic
June 1918: Traffic at the Bank of England. Sign on Royal Exchange (right) reads Let London Lead, Buy Your National War Bonds Now. (Photo by V. M. Palmer/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Heavy Work
May 1918: A steamroller at work outside a church. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Outside Courts
May 1918: Tennis at Queens Club open courts, London. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Rail Strike
October 1918: Paddington station, London, during a railway strike, with hopeful travellers crowding onto one end of the platform. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Transport Destroyed
October 1918: Shell riddled motor L. & N.W. Railway Horticultural show, Euston Square. (Photo by J. B. Helsby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Shelled Ambulance
October 1918: The shell-shattered ambulance on display at L & N W Railway Horticultural show, Euston Square, London. (Photo by J. B. Helsby/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Charity Sports
September 1918: Crowds on the pitch at Stamford Bridge during a sports day in aid of disabled men. (Photo by A. R. Coster/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Captured U-Boat
December 1918: Captured German U-boat tied up on the Thames. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Skeleton Coach
22nd May 1915: A burnt-out carriage balanced precariously on the rails after a troop train crashed at Gretna Green in south-west Scotland. Many soldiers were injured in the incident and 158 died

US Guard
27th March 1917: The armoured vehicle squadron of the US National Guard, in Washington DC with the US Capitol Dome viewable in the background. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Canadian Recruits
1st September 1915: A crowd of eager Canadians outside Toronto Town Hall, during a military recruitment campaign. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

a Ambulances
1st July 1915: A group of a Ambulances gather in a square in Paris, before leaving for the Front. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Naval Reserves
1st August 1914: A boatload of Naval Reserves leaves the pier at Cowes, bound for active service. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Married Men Protest
March 1916: A show of hands as a vote is taken, during an attested married mens protest meeting at Tower Hill, London. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Whitby Abbey
December 1914: Whitby Abbey after being shelled by German battlecruisers on 16th December. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Women Fire-Fighters
March 1916: Members of the Women of the Fire Brigade put a fire escape into position. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Paris Bomb Damage
February 1916: A five storey house hit by a German bomb, during an air raid on Paris. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Bomb Site
circa 1940: A heap of rubble and the shell of a house in the Temple area of London, after a World War II German bombing raid. (Photo by Frank J. Galloon/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Coal Barge
25th April 1917: A motor coal barge on Regents Canal unloading its cargo. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Using Wasteland
5th January 1917: Wasteland at Harrow which is to be used by the Food From Waste Ground movement. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

War Work
June 1916: Crowds of men gathered outside Great Scotland Yard and the Office of Works in London, awaiting their turn in the army recruiting office. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

A Soldiers Christmas
December 1915: A soldier carrying a christmas tree. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Stern Reminder World War II
5th September 1939: A message painted onto a pavement in Chorlton, Manchester, reminds residents to carry their gas masks with them at all times. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

So Near
1st August 1943: These two women and their children travelled all day from west Kensington, London, to the East Coast, only to find when they got there that they had to look at the sea through barbed

Artificial Sun
17th April 1942: Civil Defence Workers in Finsbury are beating the winter pallor with free sun lamp treatments. They call it Mixray at the Finsbury Health Centre

Machine Guns
circa 1940: Machine guns used for aeroplanes, awaiting shipment from a converted automobile plant in America. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Roadside Pub
31st March 1945: A whitewashed public house is illuminated by a motorists headlights. Original Publication: Picture Post - 1936 - The Magic Lantern Of A Cars Headlights - pub

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People scanning the casualty lists posted outside the Prussian Military Academy in Berlin during World War I, circa 1916. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

British Topical Press Agency (1903 - 1957)
Fine Art Storehouse Vintage Photo Gallery: Press Photography: British Topical Press Agency (1903 - 1957)

Rear View
Firmly clutching some chickens under their arms three land army girls turn their backs on the camera. (Photo by A J O Brien/Getty Images)

Airship Factory
circa 1914: An airship shed at Dusseldorf. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Wellington Barracks
1944: The Royal Military Chapel at the Wellington Barracks, London, which was damaged in an air raid by flying bombs. The bombs fell during the Sunday morning service with substantial loss of life

Priority
28th August 1939: A car with luggage strapped to its boot carries a sign saying Half a Mo Hitler lets have our holidays first. (Photo by George W. Hales/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Wartime London
May 1941: The interior of Westminster Abbey after a German bombing raid. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Lit By Searchlight
circa 1940: A searchlight lights up St Pauls Cathedral in London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Exeter Cathedral
circa 1942: A view of the Cathedral in Exeter after a night of air raids and dive bombing. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Bombed Theatre
October 1963: The bomb damaged Bavarian National Theatre at Munich. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images)

Supermarine Spitfire
circa 1940: A Spitfire having its guns tested at a Fighter Squadron Station. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Queen Elizabeth
1940: The Queen Elizabeth as a troop ship. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Bomb Damage
1941: Air raid damage in Coventry. (Photo by M. McNeill/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

1940 Firemen signallers Clearing UP
1940: Firemen signallers at work amongst the rubble after a daylight bombing raid in London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Sunlit Station
March 1945: A group of soldiers bathed in a shaft of light at a London railway station (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Eleven O Clock
3rd September 1939: Crowds looking up at Big Ben as it strikes the eleventh hour, the time of the expiration of Britains ultimatum to Germany. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Sandbag Abbey
circa 1940: A wall of sandbags in Westminster Abbey to protect against bomb damage. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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