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This is the room in which Mrs.Hanley's twins were born

This is the room in which Mrs.Hanley's twins were born....The crib is full of debris when the London Maternity Hospital was bombed, the babies were under their mother's bed. 10th September 1940

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1940s, 20th Century, Employment, Home Front, Medical, Nurses, Occupations, Second World War, The Blitz, War Effort, Women, Working, World War Two, Ww2, Wwii

The Dambuster - Dr Barnes Wallis. Wallis, the engineer who famously created the bouncing

The Dambuster - Dr Barnes Wallis. Wallis, the engineer who famously created the bouncing bomb that helped to destroy the German Dams along the Ruhr, a feat immortalised later on the silver screen. Here he is pictured talking to Wing Commander RAB Learoyd under the watchful gaze of an Avro Lancaster Bomber during the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight in 1968

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Queen Elizabeth ll Inspecting Guards May 1956 With the Duke of Gloucester the Queen

Queen Elizabeth ll Inspecting Guards May 1956
With the Duke of Gloucester the Queen meets the Regimental Colonels of her Household Brigade - The Duke of Edinburgh - extreme right - Colonel of the Welsh Guards - also FROM LEFT General Sir Henry Loyd Coldstream Guards - Field Marshal Earl Alexander Irish Guards and General Lord Jeffreys Grenadiers
The Queen opening the Household Brigade Memprial Clioster in Birdcage Walk - The Cloister - which is part of the design for the restored Chapel of Wellington Barracks damaged by a fire bombing - is in memory of officers and men of the Household Brigade who died in the WW2

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