Activities at the Royal Air Force Resettlement Centre, Scarborough D26...
Activities at the Royal Air Force Resettlement Centre, Scarborough For the repatriated prisoners of war attending No 1 Resettlement Centre, Scarborough, afternoons were free time. Many took the chance to play o... More
An Eighth Army Man on Leave, Wirral, Cheshire, 14 April 1944 TR1647
An Eighth Army Man on Leave, Wirral, Cheshire, 14 April 1944 Lance Bombardier Jack Grundy, of 441 Battery, 128 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, 50 Division, during his seven days privilege leave with his family... More
As part of the 'Holiday at Home' scheme, a young boy puts the finishin...
As part of the 'Holiday at Home' scheme, a young boy puts the finishing touches to the sand castle he is building in the sunshine in Regent's Park, London, 1943. A young boy puts the finishing touches to the sa... More
Bathing Pool- Entertainment and Relaxation in the Open Air, Guildford,...
Bathing Pool- Entertainment and Relaxation in the Open Air, Guildford, Surrey, England, 1943 A family group sits in the sunshine at the busy Guildford open air pool. Behind them, on the left of the photograph,... More
Bathing Pool- Entertainment and Relaxation in the Open Air, Guildford,...
Bathing Pool- Entertainment and Relaxation in the Open Air, Guildford, Surrey, England, 1943 A father helps his son get dried after a dip in the paddling pool at Guildford Lido. In the foreground, a woman sits... More
Bathing Pool- Entertainment and Relaxation in the Open Air, Guildford,...
Bathing Pool- Entertainment and Relaxation in the Open Air, Guildford, Surrey, England, 1943 Parents doze in the sunshine whilst their children play in the water at Guildford Lido. The fountain, which can be s... More
Cardiff's Merchant Navy Club- Rest and Relaxation in Cardiff, Glamorga...
Cardiff's Merchant Navy Club- Rest and Relaxation in Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales, UK, c May 1944 Merchant Navy officers and their Wren guests enjoy a drink and a cigarette in the lounge of the Merchant Navy ... More
Catholic Public School- Everyday Life at Ampleforth College, York, Eng...
Catholic Public School- Everyday Life at Ampleforth College, York, England, UK, 1943 Two of the older boys who act as monitors at Ampleforth College enjoy tea and toast beside the fireplace in their study. The... More
Catholic Public School- Everyday Life at Ampleforth College, York, Eng...
Catholic Public School- Everyday Life at Ampleforth College, York, England, UK, 1943 Boys at Ampleforth College buy sweets and chocolate from the school tuck shop. The tuck shop is run supervised by boys from ... More
Cecil Beaton Photographs- General IB63
Cecil Beaton Photographs- General India 1944: A gunner, Anthony Liddell, enjoying a bath at the leave camp on the Viceroy's estate at Simla.
Channel Island Evacuees Try on American Clothing in Marple, Cheshire, ...
Channel Island Evacuees Try on American Clothing in Marple, Cheshire, England, 1940 A group of young girls evacuated from the Channel Islands to Cheshire read and relax whilst wearing clothing donated to them a... More
Empire and Dominion Forces in the United Kingdom 1939-45 H12143
Empire and Dominion Forces in the United Kingdom 1939-45 Canadian troops at rest while training at Tettenhall near Wolverhampton, 29 July 1941.
Fireman's Family- Everyday Life in Wartime London, 1942 D12058
Fireman's Family- Everyday Life in Wartime London, 1942 The Chillingworth factory relax in front of the fire in the living room of their suburban London home. Sydney reads the newspaper and Hilda darns a sock,... 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
Groundcrew from No. 122 Squadron RAF play a game of draughts while wai...
Groundcrew from No. 122 Squadron RAF play a game of draughts while waiting for their aircraft to return from an operation over France, Hornchurch, 7 May 1942. This image is part of a sequence of five photograph... More
Italian Prisoners of War in Britain- Everyday Life at An Italian POW C...
Italian Prisoners of War in Britain- Everyday Life at An Italian Pow Camp, England, UK, 1945 Camp doctor Lieutenant Dr Salvatore Cirillo reads as he sits in a chair beside his bed at the N.144 workers camp near... More
Leisure and Entertainment during the Second World War A22175
Leisure and Entertainment during the Second World War The Armed Forces: Ventriloquist Raymond Robson, a cook on board a British minesweeper, uses his dummy to entertain his shipmates on the deck of his ship.
Leisure and Entertainment during the Second World War D18234
Leisure and Entertainment during the Second World War Home Front: A glamorous image, produced as part of a wartime promotion campaign for Turkish cigarettes, shows a woman smoking a cigarette while reclining on... More
London Evacuees To Devon and Cornwall, England, 1941 D2224
London Evacuees To Devon and Cornwall, England, 1941 Freddie King of Bovingdon Road, Fulham, London hugs a chicken whilst sitting on a gate in Totnes, South Devon in 1941.
London in the Spring of 1941- Everyday Life in London, England D2958
London in the Spring of 1941- Everyday Life in London, England Pedestrians enjoy a leisurely lunchtime stroll through Embankment Gardens, whilst others relax on a bench in the sunshine. A display of Spring flo... More
London Parks- Entertainment and Relaxation in the Heart of the City, L...
London Parks- Entertainment and Relaxation in the Heart of the City, London, England, 1943 A young war worker reads and eats an apple in the sunshine in Hyde Park. Beside her is her bicycle, which she has used... More
London Parks- Entertainment and Relaxation in the Heart of the City, L...
London Parks- Entertainment and Relaxation in the Heart of the City, London, England, 1943 A lady takes her dog for a 'walk' in Regent's Park. The dog, still on its lead, enjoys a swim in the sunshine in Regen... More
London Parks- Entertainment and Relaxation in the Heart of the City, L...
London Parks- Entertainment and Relaxation in the Heart of the City, London, England, 1943 Three civilians soak up the sunshine as they sleep in the sunshine in the comfort of deck chairs in Hyde Park, London.
London Parks- Entertainment and Relaxation in the Heart of the City, L...
London Parks- Entertainment and Relaxation in the Heart of the City, London, England, 1943 A lady writes a letter in the sunshine in Hyde Park, London. She is sitting on a wooden chair, her shoe-less feet rest... More
London Parks- Entertainment and Relaxation in the Heart of the City, L...
London Parks- Entertainment and Relaxation in the Heart of the City, London, England, 1943 A young boy launches a small toy battleship into the waters of the Serpentine in Hyde Park, London. Sitting on the ban... More
London Parks- Entertainment and Relaxation in the Heart of the City, L...
London Parks- Entertainment and Relaxation in the Heart of the City, London, England, 1943 In the tea enclosure in London's Hyde Park, one customer writes a letter, whilst another settles for a doze in the earl... More
London Parks- Entertainment and Relaxation in the Heart of the City, L...
London Parks- Entertainment and Relaxation in the Heart of the City, London, England, 1943 Two women relax on deckchairs in the sunshine in Regent's Park, London. As they chat, one winds a skein of wool betwee... More
Mrs Bugler Goes To War- Everyday Life in East Dean, Sussex, England, 1...
Mrs Bugler Goes To War- Everyday Life in East Dean, Sussex, England, 1943 Mrs Macdonald (left) and Miss Clements enjoy a book as part of the Reading Circle, held in Mrs Bugler's home in East Dean, Sussex.
Mrs Gribbis and her daughter Valerie enjoy a lunchtime cup of tea as t...
Mrs Gribbis and her daughter Valerie enjoy a lunchtime cup of tea as they steer the 'butty', being towed by Mr Gribbis' narrowboat on the Grand Union Canal during 1944. Mrs Gribbis (boatman's wife) and her daug... More
Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps during the First World War, France Q...
Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps during the First World War, France Members of Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps lie in the sand and water at Paris Plage, France, on 25 May 1918.
Rear Admiral Sir Robert L Burnett, Cb, Obe, November 1942 TR368
Rear Admiral Sir Robert L Burnett, Cb, Obe, November 1942 Rear Admiral Sir R L Burnett, CB, OBE, sitting on a sofa in his cabin. (Photograph probably taken on board HMS TYNE, when Rear Admiral Burnett was in Co... More
Rest-break House For Women's Land Army- Rest and Relaxation in Torquay...
Rest-break House For Women's Land Army- Rest and Relaxation in Torquay, Devon, England, UK, 1944 Enjoying a quiet spot on a bench under the trees in the garden of the rest break house in Torquay are (left to ri... More
Rest-break House For Women's Land Army- Rest and Relaxation in Torquay...
Rest-break House For Women's Land Army- Rest and Relaxation in Torquay, Devon, England, UK, 1944 Land Girls read, sew or write letters in the lounge of the WLA rest break house in Torquay.
Royal Air Force in the Middle East, 1944-1945. CM6008
Royal Air Force in the Middle East, 1944-1945. Officers relax outside the Officers' Mess at Sharjah, Trucial States, The mess is constructed of 'Barusti' (rushes and twigs woven into an open work pattern) made... More
Royal Air Force Medical Services, 1939-1945. CL1868
Royal Air Force Medical Services, 1939-1945. Two nursing sisters relax in the nurses' sitting room at No. 8 RAF General Hospital, Brussels.
Royal Air Force Operations in the Far East, 1941-1945. CI1523
Royal Air Force Operations in the Far East, 1941-1945. RAF officers look out over Sonamarg trekking and climbing camp in the Kashmiri Himalayas. Sonamarg was one of a series of mountain camps established by th... More
Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1...
Royal Air Force Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943 Off-duty airmen relax in their canteen at an airfield in the Western Desert.
Royal Air Force Transport Command, 1943-1945. CH14155
Royal Air Force Transport Command, 1943-1945. RAF and WAAF air ambulance orderlies of the Casualty Evacuation Unit at Down Ampney, Gloucestershire, relax round the stove in their Nissen hut while waiting to tak... More
Royal Air Force, the Rhodesian Air Training Group in Southern Rhodesia...
Royal Air Force, the Rhodesian Air Training Group in Southern Rhodesia, 1941-1945. Interior of a senior nco's married quarter at Cranborne, showing the family in residence.
Royal Air Force- 2nd Tactical Air Force, 1943-1945. CL1138
Royal Air Force- 2nd Tactical Air Force, 1943-1945. A party of airmen on leave in Brussels have a glass of beer at a pavement cafe. They are (left to right): Sergeant A Mason of Wallasey, Leading Aircraftman C... More
Royal Air Force- 2nd Tactical Air Force, 1943-1945. CL149
Royal Air Force- 2nd Tactical Air Force, 1943-1945. A group of RAF Servicing Commandos rest in their workshop area in a cornfield at B2/Bazenville, Normandy. The men are wearing anti-gas goggles to protect thei... More
Royal Air Force- Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-...
Royal Air Force- Operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 1939-1943. RAF officers enjoy a lunchtime drink at the bar in the Officers Mess at a desert air base in Egypt.
The British Army during the Campaign in Italy, September 1943 TR1369
The British Army during the Campaign in Italy, September 1943 Italians entertaining British troops with accordion music under the shade of a tree.
The British Army in Athens, Greece, October 1944 TR2515
The British Army in Athens, Greece, October 1944 Sergeant R Gregory and Driver A Hardman on the Erectheum during a tour of the Acropolis in Athens.
The British Army in Burma 1945 SE3518
The British Army in Burma 1945 Sherman crews eat a meal in the shade of 'Cairngorm', a Sherman tank of 116th Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, between Taungtha and Meiktila, 15 March 1945.
The British Army in Burma 1945 SE3861
The British Army in Burma 1945 Infantrymen enjoy a brief rest at the foot of Mount Popa as they move forward against the Japanese, 20 April 1945.
The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 B11290
The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 Men of the 2nd King's Shropshire Light Infantry resting, 26 October 1944.
The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 B14968
The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 Two soldiers of the 3rd Monmouthshire Regiment resting after a period in the front line, 2 March 1945.
The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 B15150
The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 Infantry resting in Kevelaer, 4 March 1945.
The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 BU3861
The British Army in North-west Europe 1944-45 Liberated POWs relax in the sun at Stalag 357 at Fallingbostel, 17 April 1945.
The British Army on Leave in Italy, June 1944 TR1955
The British Army on Leave in Italy, June 1944 'A Day in Rome with Gunner Smith': Gunner Smith has a drink with a friend on one of the main streets of Rome.
The British Army on Leave in Italy, June 1944 TR1981
The British Army on Leave in Italy, June 1944 'A Day in Rome with Gunner Smith': Gunner Smith consults his guide book before starting his tour. In the background is a panoramic view of the city.
The Eighth Army in the Klagenfurt Area of Austria, May 1945 TR2868
The Eighth Army in the Klagenfurt Area of Austria, May 1945 A sergeant of the Royal Military Police enjoys an Austrian mug of beer and a Tyrolean pipe.
The Eighth Army in the Klagenfurt Area of Austria, May 1945 TR2873
The Eighth Army in the Klagenfurt Area of Austria, May 1945 Two soldiers of the Royal Military Police in the Klagenfurt area with Anna, a 4 year old Austrian girl with whose family the men were billeted. One of... More
The Fifth Army in Lauro, Italy, 19 January 1944 TR1520
The Fifth Army in Lauro, Italy, 19 January 1944 Lieutenant Olaf Branns, of Hill House, Watlington, Oxon, takes the chance of a much needed sleep in a haystack during a lull in the battle.
The Fifth Army in Lauro, Italy, 19 January 1944 TR1521
The Fifth Army in Lauro, Italy, 19 January 1944 Lieutenant H Aldridge of Surbiton Hill, Surrey, reads a letter from home.
The Fifth Army in the Garigliano River Valley, Italy, 19 January 1944 ...
The Fifth Army in the Garigliano River Valley, Italy, 19 January 1944 Lance Corporal A Durrent, of Bethnal Green, London, snatches a few moments sleep.
The Home Front in Britain 1939-1945 TR1184
The Home Front in Britain 1939-1945 Two women, responding to the 'Holidays at Home' campaign, writing post cards in Hyde Park, London.
The Royal Navy during the Second World War A11482
The Royal Navy during the Second World War An Able Seaman asleep in his hammock on board HMS ANSON.
The Royal Navy during the Second World War A17335
The Royal Navy during the Second World War RAF airmen swapping experiences with a few of the ship's crew on the focsle of a merchant vessel..
The Royal Navy during the Second World War A21637
The Royal Navy during the Second World War A sailor smoking a pipe and writing home in his bunk on board HMS BATTLER whilst she is at sea.
The Royal Navy during the Second World War A26032
The Royal Navy during the Second World War Scene on board the famous E-Boat hunting Hunt class destroyer HMS GARTH, which brought HM King George VI home from a visit to France. Writing home about the King's tri... More
The Royal Navy during the Second World War A437
The Royal Navy during the Second World War A sailor asleep by the wheel on board HMS KELVIN.
The Royal Navy during the Second World War A7879
The Royal Navy during the Second World War A Fleet Air Arm flight deck party on board HMS VICTORIOUS leaning against the island of the aircraft carrier whilst they are awaiting the return of aircraft from patro... More
The Royal Navy during the Second World War A925
The Royal Navy during the Second World War Members of the crew, who are not on watch, have a game of cards on board one of the ships of the Plymouth harbour boom defences.
Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC, Commanding Officer of No. 617 Squadron (...
Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC, Commanding Officer of No. 617 Squadron (The Dambusters) at Scampton, 22 July 1943. Wing Commander Guy Gibson sitting in a poppy field reading a book.
INTERLUDE FOR RELAXATION ON THE STATEN ISLAND FERRY - NARA - 549897
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PAUSE FOR RELAXATION ON A PIER OVERLOOKING THE HUDSON RIVER A FEW BLOC...
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Russian stamp no 940 - postal stamp
Stamps of Russia. Relaxation. Issue by "Europa" programme, 2004 Русский: Почтовая марка России. Отдых. Выпуск по программе "Европа", 2004 На марке изображен отдых на пляже. Форма выпуска: в листах из 50 марок (... More
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Drakesbad Guest Ranch provides numerous opportunities to relax and enjoy Lassen.
Vernon Heath (British - Great Scots Fir on Lawn - Google Art Project
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"Every Day you Take off Gives the Axis a Break" - NARA - 513584
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Hagnaby Grange Fete 1914, in Hagnaby, East Kirkby, Lincolnshire 01
Hagnaby Grange Fete in 1914, at Hagnaby, a hamlet in East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, England. Hagnaby Grange is situated just east of St Andrew's Church, and next to Hagnaby Beck (stream), on the Sleaford Road (toda... More
Hagnaby Grange Fete 1914, in Hagnaby, East Kirkby, Lincolnshire 02
Hagnaby Grange Fete in 1914, at Hagnaby, a hamlet in East Kirkby, Lincolnshire, England. Hagnaby Grange is situated just east of St Andrew's Church, and next to Hagnaby Beck (stream), on the Sleaford Road (tod... More
Tyskere i Norge. Luftwaffe, World War Two
German prisoners of war being processed prior to embarkation from Norway to Germany. Here prisoners rest at the embarkation camp at Mandal prior to boarding boats for Germany.
090603-M-2581P-036 - Marines with 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment r...
U.S. Marines with 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment relax at Camp Leatherneck, Afghanistan, on June 3, 2009. The Marines are currently deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
U.S. Army Spc. Kenneth Smelcer, an engineer from 336th Engineer Compan...
U.S. Army Spc. Kenneth Smelcer, an engineer from 336th Engineer Company, floats on his back in the drown-proofing class at Fort Hunter Liggett, Calif., Aug. 6, 2011. The class teaches the Safe method which is ... More
Flickr - The U.S. Army - Troops talk politics during four-day pass
1st Lt. Erin Thomas, from Temple, Texas, plays arcade games while her husband, 2nd Lt. Will Thomas, enjoys the excitement at Camp As Sayliyah, Qatar, Jan. 27. The military couple was deployed to separate locati... More
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Gustave Courbet 027, France, 19th century
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Youth's educator for home and society (1896) (14580092578)
Identifier: youthseducatorfo00whit (find matches) Title: Youth's educator for home and society .. Year: 1896 (1890s) Authors: White, Anna R., Mrs. (from old catalog) Subjects: Etiquette Publisher: Chicago,... More