Two civil defence firewatchers of the Air Raid Precaution scan the sky with binoculars searching for German Luftwaffe bombers from the rooftop of a...
Gas decontamination wagon cleans the streets during an air raid exercise in Glogau, Germany , circa 1938.
Female air raid warden checks the contents of a household first aid cupboard, Germany, circa 1938. Exact regulations, specifying what it should...
Air raid wardens and police whitewashing kerbs in preparation for an air raid blackout exercise in Berlin, scheduled for 19th March 1935.
One elderly man sits with a telephone, as another elderly man stands and looks through binoculars, preparing for air raids at a civilian station,...
British citizens take shelter in an underground tube station during the Blitz phase of the Battle of Britain, in which London was bombed every night...
Woman with a girl and two young boys, all wearing gas masks, walk to an air raid shelter during a drill at Aldershot, England.
Railway employee in a gas mask waves a flag while hanging off the side of a train, during shunting near Brunswick House, World War II, England. The...
Boy scout working as an ARP warden carries a message by bicycle during the first week of the Second World War.
View of U.S. Military personnel operating airplane sound detectors as officers sit and monitor the readings, near San Francisco, California. The men...
Full-length image of naval officers showing boys from the English Sea Scouts a chart at a capstan aboard a ship in the Thames River, London, England,...
Column of French troops from the Allied Armée d'Orient operate two St Étienne Mle 1907 Mitrailleuse Mle 1907 T gas operated air-cooled 8mm machine...
Police, ARP and the Home Guard during a rescue operation at a London school, following a German daylight raid during World War Two, Great Britain,...
British anti aircraft machine gun crew of the British Expeditionary Force operating a tripod mounted water-cooled belt fed Vickers Machine Gun Mk1...
In Walthamstow Air Raid Precaution school a gas-masked student keeps track of the various ARP stations with the use of pins in her map, London, UK,...
Collectible tobacco card published by British tobacco manufacturer Will's Cigarettes during World War II era as part of series titled 'Air Raid...
Member of the ARP shows prospective Firewatchers how to put out burning furniture with a stirrup pump.
Fire guards on the roof of the Houses of Parliament, London. Original Publication: Picture Post - 1276 - Fire Guard On The House of Commons - pub....
Champion of the Mersey Road Club R C Coward and the Liverpool Trials Champion E Murstill volunteer for the new corps of cyclist ARP messengers.
Student from Balliol College also carries out ARP work on top of his studies in Oxford during World War II, England, March 1941. He is carrying a...
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill inspects members of an ARP rescue squad during a visit to Southampton, World War II, 31st January 1941.
Bomb damage in Liverpool during the Second World War. A street surface shelter which withstood the strain of a tall building which fell upon it...
Fire squad rushes along a dock wall in the East End of London to the scene of a fire after an air raid during the Blitz, April 1941. The group are...
Southern Railway worker pastes up a notice to passengers about improved lighting on trains during the wartime blackout, 11th February 1943.
Three air raid wardens wearing a new type of gas mask, designed for the elderly and those with chest complaints, during a mock gas attack in which...
Policemen at Oxford Central Police Station, where the police chief has ordered his men to wear their gas-masks, wherever they are, for ten minutes in...
Councillor J A Da Palma, chief air raid warden for the borough of Fulham, London, at his post. He is to become the next Mayor of Fulham.
An ARP warden on the roof of the Grosvenor House Hotel. Many London hotels had extensive ARP constructions to ensure guests remained safe and...
An air raid warden putting up signs drawing attention to the dangers from air raids and from shelling.
Dog in the gas-proof chamber invented by C.H. Gaunt, Chief Technical Superintendent of the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals.
An illustration of a simple concrete shelter for inside the house to help protect against bomb and gas attacks during WW2.
Warden gives directions to a mother and her two children during a World War II gas drill in Southend.
Schoolchildren crowd Ealing Broadway Station in London, some of the first youngsters to be evacuated to the country during World War II.
Woman hangs dark material over the window above her front door, in preparation for a World War II blackout.
George VI, , King of Great Britain and Queen Elizabeth , talking to workmen employed to demolish buildings damaged in an air raid on west London.
View of bomb damaged buildings, destroyed motor cars and a London Transport AEC Regent III RT double decker bus on Portman Street following an air...
Civil defence firewatcher of the Air Raid Precaution scan the sky with binoculars searching for German Luftwaffe bombers from the rooftop of a cotton...
Air raid precautions - Men wearing World War Two gas masks and protective clothing, circa 1940, standing in front of an Evening Chronicle van.
Members of the West Riding Police Service wearing protective clothing and gas masks during an anti gas air raid training exercise with their...
Woman pushes a pram filled with articles salvaged from her home following an air raid in the area she is shown here talking to an ARP warden
Group of Air Raid Precautions wardens posed together on a street in Kensington, London during World War II on 13th January 1942.
Priscilla Norman , née Reyntiens, the wife of Montagu Collet Norman, Governor of the Bank of England, serves tea to ARP personnel after handing over...
Family wearing their gas masks to the shops during a gas drill in Richmond, Surrey, 31st May 1941. The drill involved a canister of tear gas to...
