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    1. Imperial War Museum
    2. Martin Briscoe
    3. Just been looking through the IWM's online catalogue. There are a few pictures around Bolton and of people from Bolton there http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk/qryPhotoImg.asp WOMEN RAILWAY WORKERS DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR A female oiler employed by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway at work at Bolton station in May 1917. THE LEND LEASE PROGRAMME Elizabeth Rothwell of Bolton, Lancashire, sitting on a table drinking from a mug containing orange juice. The orange juice was supplied from America under the Lend Lease Programme from a mug. In the foreground next to her is a bottle of Ministry of Food Concentrated Orange Juice and a wooden pull-along toy. Elizabeth Rothwell was a normally healthy baby at nine months, weighing 17 lbs. 2 ozs. Then her health began to deteriorate and she was losing weight at the rate of 1lb per month. It was decided to try a dietary supplement of concentrated orange juice, sent to Britain from America. After a few weeks her health improved and Elizabeth began to take more interest in what was around her. Elizabeth thus became Britain's "Lease-Lend" War Baby, for the concentrated orange juice from America had helped to save this tiny life BRITISH FOOD STOCKS FOR LIBERATED EUROPE, 1945 Italian prisoners re-pack boxes of foodstuffs in a farm house, somewhere in Britain, (probably near Bolton, Lancashire), for dispatch to civilians in Liberated Europe. BRITISH FOOD STOCKS FOR LIBERATED EUROPE, 1945 Italian prisoners load sacks of sugar stored in the Falcon Spinning Mill, Bolton, onto a truck for dispatch to liberated Europe. They are pushing the sacks to the truck on barrows and are using a pulley to hoist the 'Sankey Sugar' onto the truck. This one is not online but could be of interest Staff and patients at the Blair Hospital, Bromley Cross, Bolton, Lancashire. Portraits of patients and nurses, many identified, also posed group photographs. GERMANY UNDER ALLIED OCCUPATION Signaller R W Chater from North Shields and Signaller Syddall of Horwich look at the scorboard in the Olympic Stadium, Berlin, set up by some unknown British humorist. There might be more Martin Briscoe Fort William M&LFHS | Gwynedd FHS

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