Operations Collection (page 10)

American Red Cross in Britain - Combined Operations, 1943 - decking the Christmas Tree. Date: 1943

WaF Plotters at work in the Operations Room of an RAF Station Fighter Command. c.November 1942

No11 Fighter Group Operations Room Table December 1937
No11 Fighter Group Operations Room Table, December 1937. Date: 1937

Operations Room at Headquarters Fighter Command

HRH The Duke of Edinburgh - Westland
HRH The Duke of Edinburgh (right) is welcomed aboard the Westland 30 by Roy Moxam, Divisional Director, Flight Operations, Westland Helicopters

From the film Ferry Pilot - Philip Wills
From the film Ferry Pilot, Philip Wills, right, Director of Operations, Air Transport Auxiliary, in the Operations Room at White Waltham

A Cierva C30A Rota 1 K4230
A Cierva C30A Rota 1, K4230, was modified by the Cierva company for deck landing operations (including fitment of Walter Kidde and RFD flotation gear)

Capt Jock Lowe, then director of flight operations, British Airways

Capt Jock Lowe then director of flight operations British
Capt Jock Lowe, then director of flight operations, British Airways

WaF plotters at work in an Operations Room of an RAF station Fighter Command

Three Vought F8U Crusaders from VX-3 taxi to the starboard catapult of the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt during early morning operations

Spain. Civil War. Los
Spain. Civil War. Francisco Franco leading the offensice operations over Catalonia (1938). By him, General Fidel D

Advert for buying Defence Bonds in WW2 1941
Advert issued by The National Savings Committee, london. When the axis crumbles before the thunder of British tanks, will you be able to say.... I played my part to the full. Buy 3% Defence Bonds

Stowing Provisions Ship
How provisions for the voyage should be stowed below decks Date: circa 1845

Queen Elizabeth II at the LFB Annual Review in Lambeth
Queen Elizabeth II at the Annual Review of the London Fire Brigade, Lambeth HQ on 11 November 1966

London Fire Brigade telephone switchboard operator
A London Fire Brigade telephone switchboard operator

Tiffin Girls School, aerial ladder platform in use
An aerial ladder platform in use as a water tower during firefighting operations at a fire at Tiffin Girls School, Richmond Road, Kingston upon Thames

GLC-LFB New Lambeth brigade control room
Formally opened by Queen Elizabeth II at the Centenary Review of the LFB, seen here is a view of the new fire brigade control room at Lambeth HQ

NFS (London Region) Communications caravan, WW2
Firewomen control officers inside a communications caravan on location at an NFS training exercise in Northwood. Middlesex

Firefighters doing productive work in lull period, WW2
During the longer lulls in firefighting activities, NFS firefighters took part in industrial production for the countrys war needs

Home Office-NFS Fire Force mobile telecom unit, WW2
NFS firewoman control officer using the London Fire Brigade Portable Telephone Cabinet (Home Office)

Home Office NFS Coordination Control Room, WW2
The resources of the various Regions were recorded at the central deployment control room of the Home Office, the government department responsible for the NFS

NFS (London Region) Salvage Corps in action, WW2
The London Salvage Corps was not part of the London Fire Brigade but operated in harmony with it. It came under the umbrella of the NFS during WW2

NFS London Region control room, HQ, WW2
Firemen and firewomen of the NFS (London Region) at the telephone switchboard of the control room at Lambeth HQ

Building an Air Shelter
Workmen building an air shelter, U.S.A. Date: 1960s

Thatching a Roof
Thatching a lovely large English country house. Date: 1967

Working a gun on submarine parent ship, WW1
Men of the British Royal Navy working a gun on a submarine parent ship during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Breaking an Egg
Breaking an egg into a bowl. Date: 20th century

A patrol of boy scouts marching to the rendezvous at the commencement of operations. The Scouts field day at Aldershot has developed into a splendidly organised monthly meeting

Hedger with Scythe
A hedger keeps the rural hedgrows under control in the English countryside with his scythe. Date: early 1930s

Underwater Habitat
Diving chemists taking water samples for analysis at the Tektite II underwater habitat, which involved an all-female team of aquanauts, 50 feet off St. Johns, U.S. Virgin Islands Date: 1970

Underwater House
A diver from the Imperial College / Enfield College (London) expedition to Malta, examines the outer structure of their underwater house. Date: late 1960s

Building Vatican Railway
Tunnelling works at Vatican City, Rome, Italy, to connect the area with the Italian State Railway. Date: 1929

Building a House 1930S
An " all timber" private detached house being constructed in the open countryside. Date: 1930s

Grange Hill Beacon
Grange, Beacon, Grange Hill, Merseyside, England, a 60 feet high sandstone pillar erected by the Trustees of Liverpool Docks in 1841, as a navigational shipping guide. Date: 1950s

Cleaning a Garden Pond
Clearing debris from the surface of a garden pond with a rake. Date: 1960s

William Shepherd Benson, US admiral
William Shepherd Benson (1855 - 1932), Admiral in the United States Navy, and Chief of Naval Operations during World War One. Date: c.1916

French submarine Turquoise renamed, Turkey, WW1
The French submarine Turquoise, captured by Ottoman forces, renamed Mustacip Onbasi and commissioned for operations in the Black Sea during the First World War. Date: late 1915

Nautical Students 1930S
Young men, students at the London School of Engineering and navigation, learning how to take a bearing by sextant to find the position of a ship when out at sea. Date: 1930s

Underwater Laboratory
Physicist Brian Ray, testing the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere in Sealab II, Britains first permanent underwater laboratory, 30 feet beneath the waves off Plymouth Date: 1960s

Surgical Operations
Devices enabling incisions in the skull and giving access to the brain which must have been an interesting experience for the patient. Date: 1525

Tiling a Roof, Tools
Tools of the roof builders from the 18th century. Date: Circa 1760

Diving, Malta 1969
Divers vent compressed air from a valve in the roof of the Underwater House, after setting it up, 30 feet beneath the surface of Paradise Bay, off the coast of Malta. Date: 1969

Digging the Garden
An old man digs over the vegetable patch of his walled garden. Date: 1930s

Masonry Equipment 18th C
Equipment used by builders in the 18th century including cranes, saws, winches, scaffolding, etc. Date: Circa 1760

Tree-Surgeon & Audience
A cartoon on the tree- surgeons art: a tree trunk lies in an operating theatre with an axe embedded in its bark while the surgeon demonstrates his skill Date: 1927

Laying a Tiled Floor
Three men lay a tiled floor in a grand house, being careful to measure everything exactly Date: circa 1760

Miners Safety Lamp
An example of a miners safety lamp

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