Historic England

All images are from the Historic England Archive, which holds more than 7 million photographs of England's architecture, archaeology, local and social history.

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Exeter Devon 1942 Margaret Tomlinson 📷 Margaret Tomlinson, 1942. 

Between late April and late June 1942, the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) deliberately targeted Britain’s historic towns and cities, causing widespread destruction, hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries. 

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A view of Exeter Cathedral 📷 Margaret Tomlinson, 1942.

Between late April and late June 1942, the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) deliberately targeted Britain’s historic towns and cities, causing widespread destruction, hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries.

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Exeter High Street 📷 Margaret Tomlinson, 1942.

Between late April and late June 1942, the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) deliberately targeted Britain’s historic towns and cities, causing widespread destruction, hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries.

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Bomb damage to the Lower Market viewed from Guinea Street 📷 Margaret Tomlinson, 1942. 

Between late April and late June 1942, the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) deliberately targeted Britain’s historic towns and cities, causing widespread destruction, hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries. 

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Southernhay West, Exeter, Devon. 📷 Margaret Tomlinson, 1942.

Between late April and late June 1942, the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) deliberately targeted Britain’s historic towns and cities, causing widespread destruction, hundreds of deaths and thousands of injuries.

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A woman holding a bag designed to house a hearing aid at a Medical Exhibition at the Royal Horticultural Society's New Hall, February, 1938.

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Nurses on stationary cycles in the gym at the new Albert Dock Hospital, London. September 1938. 

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‘A human scene in one of the wards of the Wingfield-Morris Orthopaedic Hospital, Oxford, showing a little patient with her pet Budgerigar', June 1939.

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‘How the surgeon’s rubber gloves are made. For the safety of the surgeon – and the patient – rubber gloves are essential in modern operation practice. These pictures show how, from the raw rubber, these useful articles are made’ January, 1939.

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Nurses waving from the merry-go-round at a fair in Soho Square, London, July 1939.

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Nurses of the London Fever Hospital and St. Bart’s students enjoying themselves during their off-duty period.

1 January 1940 

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Treatment of eye injuries. Picture shows the making of an X-ray film of a foreign body in the eye at the London Eye Hospital.

November 1940 

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The 1940 treatment of burns. Picture shows the patient comfortably resting in the saline bath after the dressings have been removed. He is allowed to smoke (through a holder to keep the smoke away from his eyes); can read the paper; and is given warm milk. 

Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead. December 1940. 

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Hope Hospital, Salford. Picture shows the Sister Tutor, Sister F. E. Knowles, giving a class of nurses a demonstration in the ward on the B.L.B. oxygen mask.

December 1940. 

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A London nursery school in the country. Picture shows Sister Arnold watching the return of some of her nurses from taking the children out in the prams, 1940s.

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Penelope – the model patient. 

Picture shows Miss D.J.Cousins, Sister Tutor at the Central Middlesex County Hospital, with the special jointed model which student nurses in the training school use for practical work, July 1941.

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Prevention of cross infection, August 1941.