Wartime Women in England

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Paintings from Dame Laura Knight. Clipped from the 1940s group on Facebook.

 

[MisterCairo]

I am not on FB, are there any more of these great pics?

 

[3fingers]

I am not on FB, are there any more of these great pics?

There were not. I did a bit of googling to see what else I could find, and although there were many vintage prints I didn't find any others like these.

 

[GHT]

50 years ago, at the first address I lived at having just got married, my neighbour, Dorothy, whom we all called, Dolly, recalled a tale of working on the buses during the war. Back then London had a mix of internal combustion engined and electric trolly buses. Dolly remembered how she was handed the long pole that was used for attaching the trolly pick up booms, (the sticks that ran along the wires} when her trainer let go, the boom went up, Dolly was so tiny that she went up with it. Here's some of the ladies from the home front during WW2, the last is that of Maureen Dunlop, who became a pin up girl after her photo appeared on the front page of Time magazine. Maureen passed away just a couple of years ago, aged 92. (Do you recognise the first lady?)

 

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(Do you recognise the first lady?)

Indeed. I recently enjoyed rereading the story of she and her sister sneaking out on the town during VE day.