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Description: | London Transport employees Mrs I Vance, a deputy chief tracer (left) and Mrs E Clements, a clerk on staff records, act as enemy aircraft 'roof spotters' on London Transport's Griffith House offices at Marylebone.
The women have binoculars, a chart to mark the position of the aircraft and hand-held sun visors to protect their eyes as they scan the sky.
Many women were active on the Second World War Air Raid Precautions (A.R.P.) Committee. A.R.P. services were undertaken by volunteers who were trained assist the regular services as ambulance drivers, nurses, firefighters and wardens. | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | London Transport Museum | Rights holder: | Transport for London | Subjects: | London at War Work | Temporal: | 19 May 1941 | Source: | London Transport Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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