1945 Collection (page 14)

Porcelain vase and molten glass bottle from Hiroshima, Japan
ROYAL NAVY/MILITARIA/ICONIC EVENTS: Two astounding relics recovered near Ground Zero at Hiroshima, Japan, by Commander R W Pakeman RN OBE while serving onboard HMS Belfast at the end of WW2

Machinery produced by Lawrence Hathaway, Member of IMechE, at his Trinity Pumps Company, Gobowen. The company produced floating pumps which were first used in fire engines and then cars

Elisabeth Welch as the Parisian nightclub owner Beulah in the classic Ealing film Dead of Night. Elisabeth Welch (1904-2003) African American singer & actress who settled in London in 1933

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Boeing B-29 crash landing on retrun from raid, Saipan, 9 July 1945

Senior Girls Approved School
Girls in the garden of an unidentified Senior Girls Approved School. Date: circa 1945

North Sea Camp Borstal Institution, Lincolnshire
North Sea Camp Borstal Institution at Freiston, Lincolnshire. Boys with spades at work reclaiming land from the sea. Small wagons with hoppers run on a railway track. Date: circa 1945

Lowdham Grange Borstal Institution - Farm Work
Farmyard at Lowdham Grange Borstal Institution, near Nottingham. Boys are filling a cart hitched to a farm horse. Date: circa 1945

Approved School - Gardening
Boys digging with forks and spades in the garden of an unidentified Approved School. Date: circa1945

WW2 - British sniper watching for enemy movement in Caen
Photograph: British sniper watching for enemy movement in Caen, 1944 - Associated with World War Two, North West Europe (1944-1945). Collected by Mr L Simpson, 1945 (c). Date: 1944

An Avre moving through close country
Photograph: An Avre moving through close country. From a photograph album containing 211 photographs compiled by Maj Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3/4 County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters)

Cromwell tank
Photograph: Cromwell tank. From a collection of 80 photographs and 429 negatives taken and collected by Lt Col C J G Meade MBE, 8th Hussars, 1945-1953 (c). Associated with Korea (1950-1953)

A Churchill tank
Photograph: A Churchill tank. From a photograph album containing 211 photographs compiled by Maj Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3/4 County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), 1944-1945

4 / 4th Gurkha Rifles in action, Burma, 1945
Photograph showing 4/4th Gurkha Rifles in action, Burma, 1945. One of 11 photographs collected by CSM G R C Willis, 2nd Bn Royal Berkshire Regiment, Burma, 1945

Japanese Type 91 grenade, 1931-1945. Date: 1931

Commandos doing close quarter and unarmed combat
Photograph showing commandos doing close quarter and unarmed combat, Commando Basic Training Centre, Achnacarry, Inverness-shire, 1941-1943. Associated with World War Two (1939-1945). Date: 1943

15th Scottish Division advance on the river Elbe
Photograph showing 15th Scottish Division advance on the river Elbe, tanks and armoured vehicles crossing a bridged crater, 13th April 1945

40mm Bofors Light a guns on Mark II mountings
Photograph: 40mm Bofors Light a guns on Mark II mountings and Ducks stockpiled in England prior to D Day. Associated with D Day, World War Two, North West Europe (1944-1945)

Wedding couple, 1945
A just married bride and groom standing outside a church. Back of photograph includes a message thanking a Mrs Williams for all her help at the wedding on 9th June 1945 from Ivy and Cyril

Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery with Marshal Rokossovsky
Photograph of FM Bernard Montgomery with Marshal Rokossovsky, 10 May 1945.From a collection of 23 official photographs relating to the campaign in Northwest Europe, World War Two

Weser River at Bremen, Germany, WW2
Weser River at Bremen, north-west Germany, July 1945. 1945

Admiral Sir Harold Burrough, Minden, Germany, WW2
Admiral Sir Harold Burrough (1889-1977), Assistant Chief of Naval Staff to the Royal Navy -- birthday party, Minden, Germany, July 1945. 1945

Woman with two Airedale Terrier dogs in a studio photo. Date: circa 1945

Advert for the development of Hiduminium houses 1945
Applications for Hiduminum pre-fabricated homes. When the nation wants houses industry gives us it confidence. Each home was made from aluminium alloys

Churchill Roosevelt Club, Venice, Italy
Churchill Roosevelt Club, Lido beach resort, Venice, Italy, for British other ranks and American enlisted personnel. Date: circa 1945

The British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill
Leading the country to victory in the Second World War, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill is celebrated in this portrait. Date: 1945

WW2 poster, Britains Aircraft Exhibition, London
WW2 Ministry of Information poster, Britains Aircraft Exhibition, on the John Lewis bombed site, Oxford Street, London W1. Admission free

Cartoon, Laugh It Off Annual
Cartoon in the Laugh It Off Annual -- Demobbed! and glad to be back on the old job, sir! An employee returned from the war sits in his office with a young woman on each knee

Supermarine Spitfire XVIe of Canadian No421 Squadron, RAF, Jan 1945

Boeing B-29 Enola Gay Paul Tibbetts and (on the ground) crew back on Tinian Marianas after Hiroshima raid, 5 Aug 1945

90th Infantry Division in Bastogne
Soldiers and vehicles of the American 90th Infantry Division in the Belgian town of Bastogne. The town had been under siege in December 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge

87th Infantry Division in St Hubert
During the Battle of the Bulge American soldiers of the 87th Division enter the town of St Hubert in Belgium shortly after the German occupiers had left. Date: January 1945

Elliots Library & Palace Cinema, Freshwater, Isle of Wight
The Village, Freshwater, near Totland, Isle of Wight, England. Showing Elliotts Library Date: 1920s

Avro Lancastrian G-AGLW BOAC LAP
BOAC used their Avro Lancastrians on the England to Australia route from May 1945. G-AGLW, named Northampton, was flown until 1950 Date: 1946

WW2 Poster -- Smash Japanese Aggression
Smash Japanese Aggression. Propaganda poster, colour lithograph, showing the Gloucester Regiment in action. Date: 1945

Unconquerable The King of the Belgians
Unconquerable. The Kaiser : So you see - you ve lost everything. The King of the Belgians : Not my soul. The frame has a plaque which reads Presented by the Belgian Refugees in recognition of their

Floating landing strips for aircraft by G. H. Davis
Surface tension seadromes: floating landing strips for aircraft. A revolutionary British invention: a floating aerodrome tested by the Admiralty. 1945

Map of Okinawa island by G. H. Davis
Okinawa island, the Key to Japan, whose capital, Naha, had just fallen towards the end of the Second World War. It was a vital base for the air war on Japan. Date: 1945

Community heating by G. H. Davis
Community heating: a system which keeps an entire town warm and abolishes household drudgery. A central power station provides a day

German land mines by G. H. Davis
German land mines: an important weapon used on a large scale by retreating German armies during the Second World War. Date: 1945

Japanese surrender at Mukden
Soviet troops receive arms and munitions surrendered by units of the 63rd Division of the Kwantung Army of Japan at Mukden, Manchuria Date: August 1945

Primrose Time by Muriel Dawson -- a little girl with a basket of flowers takes her pet dog for a walk. Date: 1945

Advert from the National Savings Committee 1945
Rhyme and reason. Sing a song of spare cash, a song to make you sigh; Four and twenty shillings spent on a buy. When the buy was open the bug began to sing Wasn t that a lot to pay for such a foolish

Temporary homes 1945
During World War Two many houses were bombed, there were a shortage of homes for people after the war so temporary homes where quickly built

Elderly lady fruit seller - Nassau, Bahamas Caption: " Anything Today Missus?" Date: 1945

Frances Scully, Irene Rich, Tom Breneman, Sonja Henie
Popular Radio Star Tom Breneman (1901-1948), pictured with (from left) Frances Scully (TV Presenter for ABC), Irene Rich (1891-1988 - American Actress)

A typical Luftwaffe graveyard in 1945. Date: 1945

Avro Lancaster II LL735 - Metropolitan-Vickers
Avro Lancaster II, LL735, was used by Metropolitan-Vickers to test the F2/1 gas turbine in 1943 and later with the F2/4 Beryl in 1945. Date: 1943

Three de Havilland DH89 Dragon Rapides CS-ADI CS-ADJ
Three de Havilland DH89 Dragon Rapides, CS-ADI, CS-ADJ and CS-ADK, followed by Percival Proctor, CS-ADN, on their way to Lisbon. 8 November 1945. Date: 1945

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