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A nice studio portrait of a WVS volunteer taken in 1943. She is wearing the green WVS beret with WVS Civil Defence embroidered badge, a WVS scarf and the overcoat with insignia on the sleeve - the county of Surrey below the WVS Civil Defence badge.  1943 Portrait of a WVS 'Lady in Green'
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I've previously blogged about the Lord Mayor of London's Air Raid Distress Fund (which details two more commonly found charity pins) but had not come across this charity lapel badge before. Appears to be a simple circle of paper (perhaps with a gummed rear).  Lord Mayor of London's National Air Raid Distress Fund Charity Label A fine study of an air raid warden in this photograph. Given the lack of any uniform except the helmet I would imagine it was pre- or early-war.  Portrait of an Air Raid Warden Those of a certain age and location may well recall Corona fizzy pop; their bottles had a return deposit of a few pennies. The Corona brand of soft drinks was manufactured by South Wales-based company Thomas & Evans Ltd. Below is an ARP badge issued by the company; the crown and orb was used on the company's advertising at the time.
For people living in blocks of flats that did not have basements (or had basements that could not accommodate all residents) the local authority would build surface shelters. These shelters, often built onto the road, were of brick with a concrete slab roof. There is evidence that some these structures (in London especially) were poorly constructed and that the roofs were far too heavy for the walls. There were also occasions when the shelters were misused if they were not locked (being used as a lavatory, for example). The below image shows a policeman viewing a street that has surface shelters and suffered from bombing in September 1940.  An air raid surface shelter somewhere in London |
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