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MPX5120184: War on the rats.. Dean December 20th 1943: The rat war is now in full swing and to date over half a million rats have been killed since the campaign started in November. They are killed by giving tit bits of food mixed with poison placed in the runs and sewers. It is hope that by the end of the year over one million of them will be exterminated.... A Official coming up out of the sewer with the latest kill......, December 1943 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5120240: World War II - Battle of Britain - The first fighter pilot of the war to win a V.C. Flight-Lieut James B. Nicolson, of 249 Squadron, who was awarded the V.C. although twice wounded, he refused to jump from his blazing Hurricane until he destroyed his enemy. Picture shows Flight-Lieut James B. Nicolson, playing shove-halfpenny at the West of England hospital where he is recuperating, 1940 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5120285: The Nuns at the Convent of Santa Maria Luton, have formed their own civil defence group which is prepared to swing into relief and rescue action in the event of an emergency. The local civil defence and W.V.S. organisations have been instructing them in the use of gas masks, January 1957 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5120361: Sleeping rough in a cardboard box under the arch, 19 yr old Paul Mills from Croydon Surrey. Paul left school at 16 and worked in the catering business for three months, lost his job squatted in the Croydon area as he could not find any employment. Police kicked him out and been unemployed for three yrs, he has been sleeping under the Charing Cross arch for the last month. Paul has a CSE in Catering, October 1975 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images