1940 1949 Collection (#10)

Carol Reed (b/w photo)
8641333 Carol Reed (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Carol Reed. Illustration for Profiles and Personalities by Peter Noble (Brownlee, 1946)

Using a change machine at a booking office on the London Underground (b/w photo)
8626067 Using a change machine at a booking office on the London Underground (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Film projectors (b/w photo)
8626056 Film projectors (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Film projectors)

British Cars of 1949: Vauxhall Motors (b/w photo)
8657218 British Cars of 1949: Vauxhall Motors (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Vauxhall Motors)

British Cars of 1949: Morris (b/w photo)
8657208 British Cars of 1949: Morris (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Morris)

British Cars of 1949: MG (b/w photo)
8657204 British Cars of 1949: MG (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: MG. Illustration for British Cars of 1949 by Peter Chambers (PC Publication)

British Cars of 1949: Healey (b/w photo)
8657191 British Cars of 1949: Healey (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Healey)

British Cars of 1949: Daimler (b/w photo)
8657184 British Cars of 1949: Daimler (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Daimler)

British Cars of 1949: Allard (b/w photo)
8657179 British Cars of 1949: Allard (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Allard)

British Cars of 1949: Morgan (b/w photo)
8657206 British Cars of 1949: Morgan (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Morgan)

British Cars of 1949: Jensen (b/w photo)
8657198 British Cars of 1949: Jensen (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Jensen)

Commands: Climb up the ladder carefully (colour litho)
8645091 Commands: Climb up the ladder carefully (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Climb up the ladder carefully)

Commands: Clean the upstairs windows (colour litho)
8645084 Commands: Clean the upstairs windows (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Clean the upstairs windows)

Commands: Hang dolly's stocks on the line (colour litho)
8645083 Commands: Hang dolly's stocks on the line (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Hang dolly's stocks on the line)

Little Miss Muffet Sat On A Tuffet (colour litho)
8650965 Little Miss Muffet Sat On A Tuffet (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Little Miss Muffet Sat On A Tuffet)

Commands: Iron dolly's dress (colour litho)
8651656 Commands: Iron dolly's dress (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Iron dolly's dress)

Rossall School: The nave (b/w photo)
8651293 Rossall School: The nave (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The nave)

Butlin's Skegness: Dining Halls (b/w photo)
8641685 Butlin's Skegness: Dining Halls (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Dining Halls)

Illustration for Weldon's Children's Fancy Dress catalogue, 1940s (litho)
8634267 Illustration for Weldon's Children's Fancy Dress catalogue, 1940s (litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Illustration for Weldon's Children's Fancy Dress catalogue, 1940s (colour litho)
8634264 Illustration for Weldon's Children's Fancy Dress catalogue, 1940s (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Illustration for Weldon's Children's Fancy Dress catalogue, 1940s (litho)
8634251 Illustration for Weldon's Children's Fancy Dress catalogue, 1940s (litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Illustration for Weldon's Children's Fancy Dress catalogue, 1940s (litho)
8634263 Illustration for Weldon's Children's Fancy Dress catalogue, 1940s (litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Cover illustration for Weldon's Children's Fancy Dress catalogue, 1940s (colour litho)
8634255 Cover illustration for Weldon's Children's Fancy Dress catalogue, 1940s (colour litho) by English School, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Children's seaside holiday, c.1950 (colour photo)
8634914 Children's seaside holiday, c.1950 (colour photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Illustration for Seaside Holiday)

A traditional English breakfast (b/w photo)
8655282 A traditional English breakfast (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: A traditional English breakfast)

A modern lairage (b/w photo)
8653474 A modern lairage (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: A modern lairage)

A modern interior (b/w photo)
8653468 A modern interior (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: A modern interior)

Salad (colour photo)
8655267 Salad (colour photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Salad. Illustration for Good Housekeeping's Basic Cookery in Pictures)

Home-made cakes (colour photo)
8655264 Home-made cakes (colour photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Home-made cakes)

Apricot puddings. (colour photo)
8655260 Apricot puddings. (colour photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Apricot puddings)

Denny's shipbuilding yard, Dumbarton (b/w photo)
8652389 Denny's shipbuilding yard, Dumbarton (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Denny's shipbuilding yard, Dumbarton)

Interior of a weaving shed (b/w photo)
8652387 Interior of a weaving shed (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Interior of a weaving shed)

Cotton mills, Shaw (b/w photo)
8652385 Cotton mills, Shaw (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Cotton mills, Shaw)

Entrance to St Hugh's Charterhouse, Cowfold, Sussex (b/w photo)
8676069 Entrance to St Hugh's Charterhouse, Cowfold, Sussex (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Entrance to St Hugh's Charterhouse, Cowfold)

Lamb House, Rye, Sussex (b/w photo)
8676072 Lamb House, Rye, Sussex (b/w photo) by English Photographer, (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Lamb House, Rye, Sussex, a house with famous literary connections)

Walter Trier's crazy costumes: Scotland (colour litho)
8646589 Walter Trier's crazy costumes: Scotland (colour litho) by Trier, Walter (1890-1951); Private Collection; (add.info.: Scotland)

Walter Trier's crazy costumes: Belgium, Gilles of Binche (colour litho)
8646588 Walter Trier's crazy costumes: Belgium, Gilles of Binche (colour litho) by Trier, Walter (1890-1951); Private Collection; (add.info.: Belgium, Gilles of Binche)

Walter Trier's crazy costumes: Wales (colour litho)
8646586 Walter Trier's crazy costumes: Wales (colour litho) by Trier, Walter (1890-1951); Private Collection; (add.info.: Wales)

Walter Trier's crazy costumes: Greece (colour litho)
8646572 Walter Trier's crazy costumes: Greece (colour litho) by Trier, Walter (1890-1951); Private Collection; (add.info.: Greece)

Walter Trier's crazy costumes: Eskimo (colour litho)
8646569 Walter Trier's crazy costumes: Eskimo (colour litho) by Trier, Walter (1890-1951); Private Collection; (add.info.: Eskimo)

Walter Trier's crazy costumes: Bavaria, Germany (colour litho)
8646565 Walter Trier's crazy costumes: Bavaria, Germany (colour litho) by Trier, Walter (1890-1951); Private Collection; (add.info.: Bavaria, Germany)

Composition No. 70 1944 (Oil on canvas)
8766552 Composition No. 70 1944 (Oil on canvas) by Gallatin, Albert Eugene (1881-1952); 63.5--76.2 cm; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; © High Museum of Art

A submarine (submarine) officer looking through the periscope. Watercolor and pencil on paper, 1940
MMM5467531 A submarine (submarine) officer looking through the periscope. Watercolor and pencil on paper, 1940, by Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) by Ravilious, Eric (1903-42); National Maritime Museum

Officers dining in the painted hall (at the Royal Hospital in Greenwich, England)
MMM5480488 Officers dining in the painted hall (at the Royal Hospital in Greenwich, England, for naval retirees) during the Second World War (1939-1945) by Bone

Different views of a submarine, in immersion, in flotation and from different angles of view
MMM5480884 Different views of a submarine, in immersion, in flotation and from different angles of view. Color lithograph from the Submarine series, circa 1940

WW2 Volga Tartar Volunteers armshield, c. 1939-45 (object)
7177607 WW2 Volga Tartar Volunteers armshield, c. 1939-45 (object); Private Collection; (add.info.: Volga Tartar Volunteers cloth armshield)

England East Coast, 1941 (engraving)
7340577 England East Coast, 1941 (engraving) by British School, (20th century) ; National Maritime Museum, London, UK; (add.info.: Creator)

A Group of Gallant Soldiers around a Fire, 1949 (oil on canvas)
989136 A Group of Gallant Soldiers around a Fire, 1949 (oil on canvas) by Filla, Emil (1882-1953); 195.3x154.6 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: A Group of Gallant Soldiers around a Fire)

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"Journey through the 1940s: A Glimpse into Glasgow's Gorbals and Beyond" Step back in time to the vibrant streets of the Gorbals area of Glasgow, where two young boys stroll along a bustling street in 1948. The echoes of history are ever-present as Wellington Bombers soar through the skies above, their powerful engines leaving trails of determination. Amidst this backdrop, a Lancaster Bomber stands tall, symbolizing resilience and unity during challenging times. Just like the first Co-operative shop that opened its doors in Rochdale, Lancashire in 1844 - an emblem of community strength. A man walks through a backstreet in the heart of Gorbals; his footsteps echoing stories untold. The scars left by war are visible as remnants from bombed St Thomas Hospital remind us of sacrifice and healing. In contrast to these somber scenes, Banjo tunes fill the air with joyous melodies; black and white harmonies intertwine to create moments worth cherishing. Meanwhile, Dylan Thomas weaves words together like poetry on paper – capturing emotions that transcend time itself. Across continents, a U. S. Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress bomber aircraft roars overhead - a testament to international alliances forged amidst global turmoil. And sailing across vast oceans is none other than Empress Of Canada - an elegant vessel carrying dreams and aspirations towards new horizons. As life unfolds around us, even simple pleasures find their place within this tapestry. A White Leghorn chicken struts confidently amongst backyard gardens – reminding us that beauty can be found even amidst chaos. Finally, "Under The Arch, " secrets whisper between bricks as generations pass by; it holds stories yet untold but forever etched into its very foundation. The 1940s were an era marked by both tragedy and triumph; they shaped our world today while leaving behind fragments for us to piece together. Let us remember the past, for it holds the key to our future.