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59 photos and 1 illustration tagged defence, from 10 members of Flickr Commons.

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• civilian
• old
• people
• cold
• bus
• ferry
• river
• war
• exercise
• evacuation
• authority
• volunteers
• fake
• plan
• nuclear
• simulation
• kingston
• event
• civil
• planning
• practice
• hull
• volunteer
• emergency

Members using this tag

• East Riding Archives 33 photos & illustrations
• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 10 photos & illustrations
• SDASM Archives 6 photos & illustrations
• North East Museums 5 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 1 photo / illustration
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1 photo / illustration
• Swedish National Heritage Board - Riksantikvarieämbetet 1 photo / illustration
• Australian War Memorial collection 1 photo / illustration
• Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection 1 photo / illustration
• British Library 1 photo / illustration

Conversations

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Peter Taylor, coppersmith, arrested for stealing from his employers

from North East Museums

• optimal chicken said:

  Interesting. I knew a painter who worked for the council. His fiddle was to call at the stores depot with an empty paint tin. He'd ask the staff there if he could take a small amount of sand away in the empty tin to finish a small job at home. Sand costs very little and so they'd say yes. But - the empty paint tin would be discarded and the painter would take a full new paint tin and place a mound of sand on the tin lid and walk out. Once out, he'd dust the sand off and have a full tin of paint!

Sir Robert Archdale Parkhill inspects a ship's figurehead at Snapper Island, Sydney

from Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons

• beachcomber australia said:

  'Twas on the Island Snapper Where sailors looked so dapper - The figurehead Was a girl in red - Thank God, with clothes to wrap 'er!

  [with a nod and a wink to The Good Ship Venus :-]

• beachcomber australia said:

  Terrific that the figurehead is safe in the ANMM Collection.

• excellentzebu1050 said:

  Fantastic in one word

• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons said:

  beachcomber australia Cheeky song! :P Thank you! Australian examples of ship's figureheads are actually quite rare.

Visby City Wall, Gotland, Sweden

from Swedish National Heritage Board - Riksantikvarieämbetet

• Britt-Marie Sohlström said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Sweden before 1945, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

• Lars Lundqvist said: