These nearly 3000 items from the BBC Archive have been made freely available for personal, educational, and research use, licensed under the terms of the RemArc licence.
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Rocking Horse
Parliament Fields, London : children broadcasting to their fathers, uncles and brothers serving with the British Forces in Madagascar in the BBC General Forces programme 'Its All Yours'.
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1940s, childhood, images
Roundabout
Picture shows children broadcasting to their fathers, uncles and brothers serving with the British Forces in Madagascar in the BBC General Forces programme Its All Yours from the childrens lido, Parliament Hill Fields, London. Helen Clare, who introduces the feature Lets Join the Children, keeps the party going round and round by pushing the roundabout.
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1940s, childhood, images
See Saw
Picture shows children broadcasting to their fathers, uncles and brothers serving with the British Forces in Madagascar in the BBC General Forces programme Its All Yours from the childrens lido, Parliament Hill Fields, London. Holding the microphone is Helen Clare who introduces the feature Lets Join the Children.
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1940s, childhood, images
London Zoo
Children broadcasting to their fathers, uncles and brothers serving with the British Forces programme 'It's All Yours' on May 27th, were able to tell them about all the excitements of a visit to the London Zoo, 1944
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1940s, childhood, images
Slide
Helen Clare, introducer of the feature 'Let's Join the Children' in 'It's All Yours', gets first-hand impressions of an exciting afternoon at the Children's Lido, Parliament Hill, from little Pauline Orme, of Dagenham, for her father, Colour Sergeant Arthur Orme serving with the British Forces in Madagascar. 1944
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1940s, childhood, images
Children Working
Independent Listening : The senior pupils of a small rural school listen to a curent affairs broadcast whils the teacher supervises other work with the juniors
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1940s, childhood, images
Newsroom
BBC European Central News Room, 1945
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1940s, people, images
Female Bus Conducter
Miss Lillie Brookes, a Bus Conductress, takes a fare from a passenger. 1945
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1940s, people, images
London By Bus
(left to right) Bus Driver A Cronin, Bus Conductor C. Cozens, and Miss Lillie Brookes, Bus Conductress. London, 1945
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1940s, people, images
Children's Party
Picture shows Andrew Farquharson, Geoffrey Peck with daughter Gillian and John Ellison with daughter Christine. Uncle Mac and his staff give a party for the children of members of staff. They were entertained by Jack Train, John Rourke and Archie Harradine.
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1940s, people, images
Village Nurse
nurse Murray-Smith at a clinic in Cassington, Oxfordshire, which is shared with two other villages. Murray-Smith knows all the children and has brought most of them into the world. 1946
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1940s, people, images
Music And Movement
Infant children moving to music, 1946
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1940s, childhood, images
