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Description: | Concept: civilian morale, education, civilian personnel, sports / pastimes, workers, industry, empire / commonwealth Description: whole: the image occupies the majority, held within a narrow black border. The title is separate and positioned across the top edge, in white outlined black. The subtitle and text are separate and placed in the lower quarter, in black. All set against a white background. image: a depiction of workers and their families playing sports and games at a British recreation centre. In the foreground are a running track and athletics area, a children's playground, and a bowling green. In the centre are a rugby pitch, car park, grass and clay tennis courts, and a swimming pool. In the background are a golf course, football pitch and cricket pitch. Behind the recreation centre are a housing estate and factory. text: [Arabic text] Printed in Great Britain by Mardon, Son and Hall, Ltd. [Life in Britain today. Painted by C.W. Bacon. A typical British recreation centre. Britain's mineral wealth has made her a highly industrialised country. Large factories and workshops cover considerable areas in nearly all parts of the country, and produce a steady flow of goods for the markets of the world. Workers in such industries must live near their factories or workshops, and consequently townships tend to spring up round the groups of factories. Everything possible is done, however, to avoid ant kind of unhealthy congestion in these communities and, in addition, the surrounding countryside is protected to provide a 'green belt' where workers can spend their leisure time at various games and pastimes. The picture above gives a clear idea of the arrangements made to provide healthy recreation for British workers. In the background the workers' dwellings surround the factory at which they work. The houses are well spaced, and each has its own piece of garden for growing flowers and vegetables. Work is evidently over for the day, and the workers are resting or engaged in various kinds of games and athletics. There is some form of amusement for workers and their families at all ages. The younger children are seen in the centre foreground building sand castles in a protected enclosure, and sailing their toy boats in a shallow piece of water. The sandpit forms part of a larger enclosure where other children are happy on swings and roundabouts. In the foreground to the left an athletic meeting is in progress, with races, pole jumping, hurdle racing and other events. It is a summer afternoon, and the swimming bath is popular; refreshments are being served to bathers at each end of the pool. Tennis is an increasingly popular game in Britain, and energetic couples are to be seen playing on the grass and hard courts to the left and right of the swimming bath. One of the most popular summer games in Britain is cricket, and the match in the right centre is being watched by a ring of spectators. Football is played only in winter in Britain, so the two football fields are empty. Beyond them, however, the golf course is in use, and nearer, on the extreme right, a bowls tournament is in progress - bowls is a favourite game among older people, for it is not too strenuous. Thus all ages are catered for, and after their games the people will stroll back to their homes. In this, as in other things, the British liberal way of life leads to a continual improvement in the social conditions and the health of the workers, for the efficiency and well-being of the nation are based on their good health.] Object: swimming pool, tennis court, cricket pitch, football pitch, rugby pitch, golf course, bowling green, playground, athletics track, house, factory | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Bacon, C W Printer: Mardon, Son and Hall Ltd Publisher/Sponsor: Central Office of Information | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=5176... | Go to resource |
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