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Study: A Balloon Site, Coventry (III) by Dame Laura Knight, graphite on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA01175

Dame Laura Knight’s study is part of a body of expressive drawings that explored the barrage balloon. She made these in preparation for a painting commissioned by the War Office to promote the recruitment of female operators for RAF Balloon Command - 'A Balloon Site: Coventry' (1942, Imperial War Museums).

Dame Laura Knight graphite study for painting 'A Balloon Site, Coventry', representing a barrage balloon manned by WAAFs, The artist's estate and Bridgeman Images / RAF Museum / u00a9 The Estate of Dame Laura Knight. All Rights Reserved 2020 / Bridgeman Images

Filter Room by Elva Blacker, watercolour on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA04235

This scene is contrived from numerous portrait studies of RAF personnel. They are represented busy at work in the Filter Room at RAF Biggin Hill, a station that played a key role in the Battle of Britain in 1940.

Elva Blacker ink drawing of WAAFs and officers in a filter room, Biggin Hill, Trustees of the RAF Museum/Iain Duncan / RAF Museum

Communications Room by Elva Blacker, watercolour on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA04234

This watercolour shows personnel at work in the Communications Room at RAF Biggin Hill, a station that played a key role in the Battle of Britain in 1940.

Elva Blacker watercolour of an RAF communications room, © Estate of Elva Blacker, 2020 / RAF Museum

Study: A Balloon Site, Coventry (VI) by Dame Laura Knight, watercolour on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA01171

This compositional study representing a barrage balloon among trees, with female balloon operators below it, is one of several preparatory drawings by Dame Laura Knight for a painting commissioned by the War Office to encourage recruitment of women to RAF Balloon Command - 'A Balloon Site: Coventry' (1942, Imperial War Museums). In 1941, WAAF operators replaced men at RAF Balloon Command.

Study: A Balloon Site, Coventry (VI) by Dame Laura Knight, watercolour on paper | FA01171

Study: A Balloon Site, Coventry (I) by Dame Laura Knight, graphite on paper

Fine Art, In Storage, FA04558

This small compositional study of four WAAFs holding the rope of a barrage balloon is one of several preparatory drawings by Dame Laura Knight for a painting commissioned by the War Office to encourage recruitment of women to RAF Balloon Command - 'A Balloon Site: Coventry' (1942, Imperial War Museums). Months earlier, in 1941, WAAF operators replaced men at RAF Balloon Command.

Graphite drawing of four WAAF barrage balloon operators pulling the line to tether the balloon, RAF Museum

WAAF in air raids - Section Officer Hanbury

Film & Sound, In Storage, X003-6353

Recording in which Section Officer Felicity Hanbury (later Peake), a Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF) officer, describes air raids on RAF Biggin Hill.

Image pending

Royal Air Force and Women's Auxiliary Air Force trades

Library, In Storage, X004-3054

4th edition of Air Ministry Pamphlet AMP 51 ‘Royal Air Force and Women’s Auxiliary Air Force: Trades’. Issued by the Air Ministry, November1945

Cream coloured page with black text and RAF Museum Library stamp, Royal Air Force Museum