MPX5136524: 17 year old girl and father rethatch a village. Quite a big job for 17 year old Joyce Stamford and her father Corrie Stamford is the thatching of 50 cottages, in and around Barley, the picturesque Hertfordshire village, noted for its curious inn sign, the Fox and Hounds. The village will look quite smart with its new thatch. A film company is to use parts of Barley as backgrounds for a production. Joyce is a very capable thatcher and good at yelming. She helped her father as a child. 25th May 1944 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5136599: The Gentle Profiteer. "Tell your Mother we have no sugar unless she buys a nice bicycle to ride to our other branch where she can get a lovely electric torch at three times the list price, because there's a war on, dearie... 23rd September 1939 (b/w photo), Zec, Philip (1909-1983) / Bridgeman Images
MPX5136620: The Scene in the Sandon Basin, Liverpool today as the Andania, the first of two new fast cargo liners for the Cunard Line's North Atlantic services, prepares to leave on the new cargo service between Glasgow, Liverpool and Gulf of Mexico. On the right is the Cunard liner Sylvania just entering the basin. 11th May 1960 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images