A member of the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) in her mobile canteen ...
A member of the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) in her mobile canteen during 1941. Patience 'Boo' Brand fills a large saucepan with water from the urn on board the mobile canteen that she and her friend run on ... More
Activities at the Royal Air Force Resettlement Centre, Scarborough D26...
Activities at the Royal Air Force Resettlement Centre, Scarborough The Belvedere Club, run by the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS), for all ranks at No 1 Resettlement Centre, Scarborough.
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Can...
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 18 year old Patience 'Boo' Brand (furthest from camera) and her friend 20 year old Rachel Bingham prepare for ... More
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Can...
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 Patience 'Boo' Brand wakes up Rachel Bingham at the WVS Canteen Service depot at 2:30am, in order that they ca... More
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Can...
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 Patience 'Boo' Brand fastens the belt at the back of her coat, whilst Rachel Bingham ties up her shoe laces at... More
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Can...
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 Rachel Bingham applies her lipstick while Patience 'Boo' Brand ties her shoelaces at the WVS Canteen Service d... More
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Can...
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 It is 2:45am and Patience 'Boo' Brand and Rachel Bingham are preparing their canteen at the WVS Canteen Servic... More
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Can...
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 Patience 'Boo' Brand puts meat pies in to cook in the gas oven in the mobile canteen, so that they are piping ... More
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Can...
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 At 3:45am, Patience 'Boo' Brand drives the tea car and canteen from the WVS Canteen Service depot, whilst Rach... More
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Can...
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 At 4:15am, Patience 'Boo' Brand reports the arrival of the WVS mobile canteen to the ARP warden at his post in... More
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Can...
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 Patience 'Boo' Brand serves tea to a shelterer from the WVS canteen, as an ARP warden drinks his tea, a bun in... More
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Can...
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 At 5:30am, Patience 'Boo' Brand and Rachel Bingham carry trays of tea and buns to shelterers who have been una... More
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Can...
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 Patience 'Boo' Brand and Rachel Bingham of the WVS distribute tea and buns to ladies sheltering in a trench sh... More
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Can...
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 Rachel Bingham scrubs the floor of the WVS canteen on her return to the Canteen Service depot, somewhere in Lo... More
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Can...
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 It is now 8am, and having returned to the depot and cleaned the canteen, Patience 'Boo' Brand loads a tea urn ... More
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Can...
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 Rachal Bingham sets up mugs ready to start selling cups of tea and buns to people helping to clear up damage a... More
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Can...
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 Rachel Bingham counts out the change for a man buying a cup of tea and a bun from the WVS tea car that she is ... More
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Can...
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 Patience 'Boo' Brand reaches into a compartment in the WVS tea car to get a pack of cigarettes for one of the ... More
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Can...
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 Patience 'Boo' Brand pours tea into the cup of a man who has been bombed out of his home, from the back of the... More
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Can...
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 Patience 'Boo' Brand washes mugs in a bowl of water on the ground next to the WVS tea car, somewhere in London... More
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Can...
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 It is now 11am and members of the Pioneer Corps help WVS ladies unload trays of buns and pies from the WVS can... More
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Can...
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 A wide view of the group of Pioneer Corps which has formed around the WVS canteen and car in this bomb-damaged... More
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Can...
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 Men of the Pioneer Corps gather around a WVS canteen and relax with tea and buns after a morning of clearing r... More
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Can...
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 Men of the Pioneer Corps eat buns and drink tea alongside a WVS canteen during their midday day break on a bom... More
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Can...
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 Patience 'Boo' Brand, a WVS volunteer, stands on the 'wrong' side of the counter of the WVS canteen amongst a ... More
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Can...
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 Patience 'Boo' Brand and Rachel Bingham serve tea to men of the Royal Engineers from the back of a WVS tea car... More
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Can...
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 A Royal Engineer smiles for the camera in front of the WVS tea car, donated to the WVS by the American Red Cro... More
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Can...
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 After tea, a group of Royal Engineers help Patience 'Boo' Brand fill up the washing up bowl with hot water fro... More
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Can...
Blitz Canteen- Women of the Women's Voluntary Service Run a Mobile Canteen in London, England, 1941 After tea, a group of Royal Engineers help Patience 'Boo' Brand with the washing up, by drying the mugs and st... More
Blitz Repair Squad's London Camp- Everyday Life With the Blitz Repair ...
Blitz Repair Squad's London Camp- Everyday Life With the Blitz Repair Teams, London, England, UK, 1944 Builders of the 'Blitz Repair Squad' queue to collect their breakfast from women of the Women's Voluntary S... More
Blitz Repair Squad's London Camp- Everyday Life With the Blitz Repair ...
Blitz Repair Squad's London Camp- Everyday Life With the Blitz Repair Teams, London, England, UK, 1944 Women of the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) arrive early to prepare breakfast for the men of the 'Blitz Re... More
Blitz Repair Squad's London Camp- Everyday Life With the Blitz Repair ...
Blitz Repair Squad's London Camp- Everyday Life With the Blitz Repair Teams, London, England, UK, 1944 Women of the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) hard at work preparing breakfast for the men of the 'Blitz Rep... More
British War Relief Society of America Sends Clothing To Britain, 1941 ...
British War Relief Society of America Sends Clothing To Britain, 1941 Two members of the Women's Voluntary Service sort baby clothes at a WVS centre, somewhere in London, in 1941. The clothes have been donated... More
Children's Shoe and Clothing Exchange Art.IWMPST14944
Children's Shoe and Clothing Exchange whole: the image occupies the majority. The title is integrated and placed in the upper third, in white. The Women's Voluntary Service emblem is placed in the upper left, a... More
East Ham Information Bureau- War Welfare work in London, 1941 D3226
East Ham Information Bureau- War Welfare work in London, 1941 Three women, including a member of the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS), speak to information officers in the rehousing and billeting department of t... More
Garden Party For West Indian Ats- Rest and Relaxation in Bicester, Oxf...
Garden Party For West Indian Ats- Rest and Relaxation in Bicester, Oxfordshire, England, UK, 1944 Women of the Auxiliary Territorial Service (ATS) enjoy tea and sandwiches under the shade of a large tree at a g... More
Guy's Hospital- Life in a London Hospital, England, 1941 D2336
Guy's Hospital- Life in a London Hospital, England, 1941 A group of nurses at Guy's Hospital in London get cups of tea from the canteen, poured for them buy members of the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS). Ther... More
Handing Over WVS War Nursery, Manor House, Wendover, Buckinghamshire, ...
Handing Over Wvs War Nursery, Manor House, Wendover, Buckinghamshire, England, UK, 1941 Lady Iris Capel (centre) chats with Matron Mrs Silcock (left) and Mr McCoy of the American Red Cross. They are playing wi... More
Help Your Fellow Citizens To Have a Home Again Art.IWMPST13895
Help Your Fellow Citizens To Have a Home Again whole: the photographic image is covers the main. The title and text, in orange, are located across the top and imposed over the image. A white inset, bearing the ... More
Housewives! Wvs Needs Your Help! Art.IWMPST19869
Housewives! Wvs Needs Your Help! Public domain scan of British poster, advertisement, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Marketing Without Money- Children's Clothing Exchange, Norwood, Englan...
Marketing Without Money- Children's Clothing Exchange, Norwood, England, UK, 1943 A young boy and his mother outside a children's clothing exchange run by the Women's Voluntary Service in Norwood, South London.... More
Men of the Pioneer Corps at a Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) canteen ...
Men of the Pioneer Corps at a Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) canteen IN lONDON DURING 1941. At 11:30am, a queue of hungry Pioneer Corps men forms at the WVS canteen. These men have been helping to clear away ... More
Men of the Pioneer Corps take a break from clearing rubble from a bomb...
Men of the Pioneer Corps take a break from clearing rubble from a bomb site in London. Refreshments are provided from a mobile canteen run by the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS), 1940. A group of Pioneer Corps ... More
Ministry of Food Mobile Canteen From the Seychelles, Britain, 1941 D31...
Ministry of Food Mobile Canteen From the Seychelles, Britain, 1941 Members of a Stretcher Party and female ambulance drivers collect tea and refreshments from this Ministry of Food canteen, donated by the peopl... More
Miss Patience Brand working for the Women's Voluntary Service running ...
Miss Patience Brand working for the Women's Voluntary Service running a mobile canteen in London during 1941. Miss Patience Brand (known as 'Boo') is 18 years old and is part of London's 'Society'. She is now ... More
Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, E...
Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, East Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, 1943 Pig food collectors Kathleen Kent (left) and Winifred Jordan set off from the local WVS headquarter... More
Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, E...
Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, East Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, 1943 Mrs Gerald De Rivaz of the WVS climbs into the pig-food collecting car which she drives in East Bar... More
Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, E...
Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, East Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, 1943 Winifred Jordan (left) and Kathleen Kent of the WVS prepare to lift a large pig-food bin on a stree... More
Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, E...
Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, East Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, 1943 WVS salvage workers Winifred Jordan (left) and Kathleen Kent empty the contents of a large pig bin ... More
Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, E...
Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, East Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, 1943 Mrs Gerald De Rivaz, WVS driver, watches from inside the pig food collecting car, as Kathleen Kent ... More
Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, E...
Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, East Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, 1943 WVS salvage workers Kathleen Kent (left) and Winifred Jordan collect a pig food bin from outside so... More
Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, E...
Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, East Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, 1943 A full-length portrait of Kathleen Kent, carrying a pig bin on her shoulder, on a sunny street duri... More
Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, E...
Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, East Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, 1943 WVS salvage worker Kathleen Kent uses a shovel to transfer the contents of this pig bin into the tr... More
Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, E...
Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, East Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, 1943 The East Barnet WVS pig food collection unit have been given permission by the local gas company to... More
Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, E...
Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, East Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, 1943 After having collected up the contents of the local pig bins, the East Barnet WVS pig food collecti... More
Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, E...
Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, East Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, 1943 At the pig farm, 5 miles outside East Barnet, farmer G Bailey fills vats with salvaged kitchen scra... More
Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, E...
Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, East Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, 1943 Pig farmer G Bailey rakes through one of his four vats of pig food, to make sure there are no solid... More
Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, E...
Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, East Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, 1943 Farmer G Bailey and his son show WVS salvage workers Mrs Gerald De Rivaz (standing on gate), Kathle... More
Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, E...
Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, East Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, 1943 Members of the East Barnet WVS pig food collection unit watch as a group of Large White pigs enjoy ... More
Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, E...
Pig Food- Women's Voluntary Service Collects Salvaged Kitchen Waste, East Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, 1943 A view through the rear window of the WVS pig collection unit car, as members of the East Barnet un... More
Rachel Bingham of the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) serves tea from ...
Rachel Bingham of the Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) serves tea from her mobile canteen in London during 1941. Rachel Bingham serves tea from the back of her WVS tea car to a man who has been helping to clear ... More
Services Club- the work of the Women's Voluntary Service at Chester Ho...
Services Club- the work of the Women's Voluntary Service at Chester House, Clarendon Place, London, England, 1943 Mrs Bolton, Acting Superintendent of the WVS-run Services Club, (centre), chats to members of th... More
Services Club- the work of the Women's Voluntary Service at Chester Ho...
Services Club- the work of the Women's Voluntary Service at Chester House, Clarendon Place, London, England, 1943 Mrs M Hunt of the WVS pours tea for a group of ATS and WAAF in the self-service cafeteria at the... More
Services Club- the work of the Women's Voluntary Service at Chester Ho...
Services Club- the work of the Women's Voluntary Service at Chester House, Clarendon Place, London, England, 1943 Women of the ATS make use of the workroom at the Services Club at Chester House. A sewing machi... More
Springfield in Wartime- Everyday Life in An Essex Village, August 1941...
Springfield in Wartime- Everyday Life in An Essex Village, August 1941 Members of the Central Essex Women's Voluntary Service (WVS) Hospital Supply depot cut out clothes from American cloth sent to Britain from... More
Women of the WVS Garnish Camouflage Nets- War work in London, England,...
Women of the Wvs Garnish Camouflage Nets- War work in London, England, UK, 1943 Two members of the Women's Voluntary Service tie strips of sacking to a large net, suspended from the ceiling in an old school bui... More
Women of the WVS Garnish Camouflage Nets- War work in London, England,...
Women of the Wvs Garnish Camouflage Nets- War work in London, England, UK, 1943 A member of the Women's Voluntary Service cuts strips of green and khaki sacking into lengths in preparation for the production of... More
Women of the WVS Garnish Camouflage Nets- War work in London, England,...
Women of the Wvs Garnish Camouflage Nets- War work in London, England, UK, 1943 A member of the Women's Voluntary Service checks rolls of sacking strips as they arrive at the depot, based in an old school build... More
Women of the WVS Garnish Camouflage Nets- War work in London, England,...
Women of the Wvs Garnish Camouflage Nets- War work in London, England, UK, 1943 Mrs Waters of the Women's Voluntary Service sweeps up remnants of sacking which are left over from the strips used to make camoufl... More
Women Wanted Art.IWMPST14191 - Public domain portrait photograph
Women Wanted whole: the two images are placed in the left quarter and right quarter, partially held within red and black borders, set against purple panels. The emblem of the Civil Nursing Reserve is positioned... More
Women's Voluntary Service Run Children's Clothing Exchange, Norwood, L...
Women's Voluntary Service Run Children's Clothing Exchange, Norwood, London, 1943 Mrs Gosmay (right) helps her daughter Celia (aged almost two) to try on a new coat at the WVS clothing exchange in Gypsy Hill, L... More
Women's Voluntary Service Run Children's Clothing Exchange, Norwood, L...
Women's Voluntary Service Run Children's Clothing Exchange, Norwood, London, 1943 Mrs Grace helps her son Michael to try on a new pair of shoes at the Clothing Exchange in Gypsy Hill, as her 18-month-old daught... More
Wvs Bandage-making Art.IWMARTLD2991
Wvs Bandage-making image: Nurses gathered around a table laden with white sheets. They are tearing the sheets into smaller strips for bandages.
Collection of scrap aluminium in Welshpool by the Womens Voluntary Ser...
Teitl Cymraeg/Welsh title: Gwasanaeth Gwirfoddol y Menywod yn casglu alwminiwm sgrap yn y Trallwng Ffotograffydd/Photographer: Geoff Charles (1909-2002) Dyddiad/Date: July 27, 1940. Cyfrwng/Medium: Negydd ffilm... More
WVS Bandage-making, 1942. (Art IWM ART LD 2991)
Nurse are gathered around a table laden with white sheets , which they are tearing into strips for bandages.
WVS Bandage-making. (Art IWM ART LD 2995)
WVS women work around a table with two women standing while cutting and folding a long piece of cloth. The seated women are making rolls of bandages using a tabletop rolling machine. Completed rolls cover the table.
WVS Clothing Exchange (Art.IWM ART LD 3918)
A scene inside a war-time clothing exchange run by the Women's Voluntary Service for Civil Defence, showing women trying clothes on their children. Two WVS volunteers stand behind the counter in distinctive bo... More
WVS Clothing Store, Bristol Art.IWM ART LD 5171 (1945)
A women sits at a desk in the centre of a clothing store, surrounded by large boxes and heaps of clothing
WVS Cutting Calico for Emergency Cots (Art. IWM ART LD 2993)
A WVS women leans over a table laden with white calico, which she is cutting into strips. A second women sits in the background.
WVS Cutting Out Pyjamas for WAAF (Art. IWM ART LD 2996)
Two WVS women stand either side of a table cutting out patterns from striped fabric.
WVS Settlement, Fairford. Ivor Tully, an evacuee from Barking (ART.IWM...
A young boy seated on a chair looking to his right
WVS Settlement, Fairford. Mrs Young, a helper (Art.IWM ART LD 5168) (1...
An oval portrait of a women wearing a patterned apron sitting on a bench at a table