Gas Mask
This is a 'Service Respirator', issued to the Army/Navy/Air Force, also the Police and some Civil Defence etc. but generally not a civilian item.
Forty million masks were distributed to the civilian ...
Ken and Geoff Platt, Uttoxeter Road, Longton
Ken and Geoff Platt who lived at 5 High St (later Uttoxeter Rd), Longton, pictured in front of a wartime Anderson Shelter in the back yard of 1,Uttoxeter Road. Behind the shelter is the huge bottle oven ...
Longton C.E. School
Photograph shows war time shelters and static water tank.
Longton Church of England School was built in 1836 on School Lane (later Webberley Lane).
Tea Van, Stoke-on-Trent
The Lord Mayor, Lady Mayoress, Council Officials and Civil Defence members during the Second World War.
Mobile tea vans like this would have been operated by such groups as the Women's Voluntary Service ...
The High Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme, during a Zeppelin air raid
Sunset sky, lamps creating diffused light on a dim High Street through which the Guildhall can just be seen. A running figure is just visible towards the right of the picture. This pastel image is signed ...