Members of the Women’s Voluntary Service run a mobile canteen inLondon (England, 1941):A group
Members of the Women’s Voluntary Service run a mobile canteen inLondon (England, 1941):A group of Pioneer Corps enjoy tea and buns bought from a WVS canteenon a cleared London bomb-site. The site has just been cleared bythese men. A row of man are sitting on a pile of planks and rubble,all that remains of a house. Any personal possessions found in thishouse have already been salvaged by the owners.Patience “Boo” Brand and Rachel Bingham serve tea from the backof a WVS tea car to men of the Royal Engineers. The tea car has beendonated to the WVS by the American Red Cross. TheRoyal Engineers have been building bridges across bomb craters inmain thoroughfares.A Royal Engineer smiles for the camera in frontthe WVS tea car. He has a mug of tea and a fruit pie for his 3o'clock afternoon tea.After tea, a group of Royal Engineers help Boo to fill up the washingbowl with hot water from the water urn.A group of Royal Engineers help Boo by drying the mugs and stackingthem back in their trays.Boo fills a saucepan with water from the urn on board the mobilecanteen, as men of the Pioneer Corps gather outside. In front of herare stacks of mugs and another urn. -- source link
#history#military history#culinary history#engineering#construction#labour#ww2#home front#the blitz#london blitz#britain#england#london#royal engineers#tea#air raids