Videos

Exclusive to our archive is the only filmed recording of actress Virginia McKenna reciting Leo Marks famous code poem written for WW2 British Agent Violette Szabo. Miss McKenna played the part of Violette in the classic film 'Carve Her Name With Pride'

We have available many photographs of the Fire Service in action as well as civilians, bomb damage, vehicles and 'general' scenes of the war period.

We also have filmed interviews with Veterans including a Spitfire pilot, a Fire Captain and a foreman in a factory which built aircraft. Additional interviews include the Rear Commodore of the Dunkirk Little Ships Trust.

We can also provide re-enactment footage including WW2 craft on Southampton water.

Our Homefront History filmed interviews and footage includes

  • Interview with WW2 Spitfire pilot Nick Berryman
  • Interview with Jerry Lewis, Rear Commodore Dunkirk Little Ships Trust
  • Interview with WW2 Civilian Police Officer
  • Interview with Marjorie Mathew, Remembers life near an active WW2 airfield
  • Interview with Group Captain Trevor Milburn. How the modern RAF evolved from the RAF of WW2
  • Interview with Lord Montagu. Life on the Beaulieu Estate during WW2
  • Interview with John Teynham. A family estate in wartime
  • Interview with Edward Hulse. Remembering Patton
  • Interview with Tom Porter. A fireman and a welder in an aircraft factory
  • Interview with a full time Fire Captain. The Blitz and preparing for D-Day.

Photographs

Our small, but expanding photographic collection includes:

  • A rare and superb high quality image of an RAF Bomber pilot at the controls of his aircraft during a mission over occupied Europe 1943.
  • A rare and superb high quality image of two members of the RCAF with their Mosquito on an airfield in England 1944.
  • A Mosquito Squadron in a group shot with a Mosquito aircraft 1944.
  • A civilian wartime wedding.
  • A military wartime wedding.
  • Children's Tea Party.
  • An early war Dance Band.
  • One of the largest private collections of the wartime fire service in action including after raid scenes, fire service training, vehicles, fireboats, street scenes.

Photographs shown are for illustrative purposes only. Please contact us for a full list of images available