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Salvage Gallery

Available as Framed Prints, Photos, Wall Art and Gift Items

Choose from 4 pictures in our Salvage collection for your Wall Art or Photo Gift. Popular choices include Framed Prints, Canvas Prints, Posters and Jigsaw Puzzles. All professionally made for quick delivery.


Iron Mink Wagon converted into a salvage van, c.1940
Iron Mink Wagon converted into a salvage van, c.1940
A paper recycling cart outside the General Stores at Swindon Works, 1941
A paper recycling cart outside the General Stores at Swindon Works, 1941
Bomb damage to the GWR's salvage warehouse in London, 1940
Bomb damage to the GWR's salvage warehouse in London, 1940
GWR Salvage Corps leaflet, 1940
GWR Salvage Corps leaflet, 1940
A paper recycling cart outside the General Stores at Swindon Works, 1941 Featured Print

A paper recycling cart outside the General Stores at Swindon Works, 1941

A paper recycling cart outside the General Stores at Swindon Works in 1941. Bound bundles of paperwork and ledgers can be seen piled on the cart ready to be taken away to be pulped. Although the operation was a worthwhile effort, it is quite sad to see the paperwork being destroyed. Historians studying the GWR are now plagued by gaps in the historical record. By 1945 the GWR had sent thousands of tons of waste to the paper mills