| Description | Contains Monochrome photographs of YMCA activities during the Second World War including of mobile canteens serving airmen, anti-aircraft crews, civilians; photographs of soldiers abroad in Malta, New Guinea, Nigeria, Ghana; Nottingham YMCA appeal meeting; Redditch Hut, Sloane Square YMCA; female ATS workers, with one being provided a mock wedding dress; painting of mural in a YMCA hostel and art exhibition, including visit of King George of Greece; Princess Helena visiting a mobile canteen; play by members of the RAF at Grasmere; Lady Doverdale broadcast; visit of King Peter II of Yugoslavia to a canteen; visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to the King George's Club for Officers; Snapshots from Home, including General Montgomery's son; photographs of staff going to North Africa; and photograph of Black soldiers eating.
Also includes photographs of boys doing exercises in a gymnasium; boys attending a football match at Windsor Castle; YMCA Youth Centres at Croydon and Plaistow; opening of the youth exhibition at Harrods; boys doing physical training at Whitehaven and Merseyside YMCA; exterior photographs of London Central, Bournemouth, Plaistow, Kennington, Nottingham, Birkenead, Hove, and Hornsey YMCAs; photographs of the British Boys fir British Farms scheme; photographs of the International Camp for boys, 1927; and holiday makers at the Agricultural Workers' Hostel in Tring.
Contains photographs of music scripts for the 'March YMCA' and 'war-time Christmas carol'. |