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Ad for shelter attendants |

Air raid shelter |

Advert for book recovery drive |

Burrsville bomb crater |

Church Service Advertisement |

Cinema Advert |

Clacton's busy seaside before the outbreak of war |

Clearing Galleywood Common |

Dig for Victory poster |


Doris Wright's luggage labels |

Easter Treats Leaflet |

Evacuee's letter home |

Evacuees to Holland-on-Sea |

Fire bomb crater |

German bomber |

German mine |

Greensward (West Clacton) fenced in |

Group of Red Cross volunteers |

Hadleigh Hotel |

Lady Reading |

Pillbox, Holland-on-Sea, 1953 |

Pre-war - children at Clacton |

Ration book |

86th Detachment, Clacton Red Cross at Clacton Hospital in 1939 |

Respirators (Gas Masks) - invitation to collect |

Salvage Efforts - John Bull and children collecting scrap metal |

Shelter seating advertisement |

Shop ad for utilitywear |

The Palace Theatre |

Victoria Road bomb damage |

V.J. Day party 1945 |

Wagstaff's corner - bomb damage |

Wings for Victory parade |

Women - recruiting to the factories |

Women - recruiting to the land army |

Women - Memorial to; Whitehall , London. Photographed Nov. 2005 |
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