Home Front Collection

Royal Engineers bomb disposal team at work, [Mar 1941]
Bognor Regis. The men are tying a rope around an unexploded bomb, which has come to rest several feet below a kale field near Shripney Road. The bomb fell on 19 March 1941

VE Day in High Street, Bognor Regis, 8 May 1945
Many people are dancing to relayed music. L Alouette Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: L Alouette/A/1/23/7

VE Day street party in Lyon Street, Bognor, 8 May 1945
In the background: St Johns Church and the cleared site of the Sudley Road bombing. L Alouette Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: L Alouette/A/1/23/5

Children playing in garden of bombed-out house, [Dec 1940]
[Bognor Regis]. The boy and girl are playing with toys and a damaged dolls house, sometime after the air raid of 27 December 1940

Soldier pointing pistol at fire service personnel
Bognor Regis, [1939-1945]. In a posed photograph outside The Tuck Shop at the junction of Upper Bognor Road (now the High Street) and Gloucester Road

Gun crew in action on the Esplanade, Bognor Regis 1940
Taken at the eastern end of the Esplanade in the Summer of 1940. The domed frontage of the Theatre Royal complex is on the right

Keep left bollard being taken away for scrap [1939]
At Bognor Regis. Workmen are loading it onto the back of a lorry. L Alouette Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: L Alouette/A/1/2/3

Mock-attack on Town Hall, Bognor, by Home Guard
[Jul 1942]. The entrance of the Town Hall has been bricked up to create a surface air raid shelter. There is a Shelter Here - 22 sign. The 1914-1918 War Memorial is shown

Gas attack exercise in London Road, Bognor
[12 Jun 1941]. Showing the shop fronts of J H Dewhurst Ltd (butchers), Maypole Dairy Co Ltd, Lewis (tobacconist), Toogoods (ladies hairdresser), Mac Fisheries Ltd, and Pink and Sons (grocers)

Bognors Civil Defence force helping with paper salvage
[1939-1945]. The men are collecting paper and cardboard from West Street and loading it into a pick-up (the van door is signed Civil Defence Road Repair )

Sandbags being laid outside Post Office, Bognor, 1939
In the High Street; the sandbags are being filled by boys as a policeman in a tin helmet stands nearby L Alouette Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: L Alouette/A/1/2/2

Workmen removing iron railings [1939-1945]
[Bognor Regis] L Alouette Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: L Alouette/A/1/2/5

Removal of barbed wire from the Esplanade, Bognor, 1945
L Alouette Collection West Sussex Record Office Ref No: L Alouette/A/1/23/11

Jeanette and Pamela L Alouette, [Nov 1940]
On the Esplanade at Bognor Regis. With four soldiers of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Light Infantry, then on coastal defence duties at Bognor

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