3-062-964 - Historic England Archive/Heritage Images

Royal Air Force No. 2 School of Photography, Palatine Road, Blackpool, Lancashire, 1942. RAF and WAAF instructors at the No. 2 School of Photography, posing for the camera. Staff at the No. 2 School of Photography including Sergeant Albert Bernard Chapman, husband of Knicky Chapman, second on the left in the second row from the front. The School was established in August 1940 to meet the rapidly increasing need for more photographers and photographic technicians to aid with aerial reconnaissance during the Second World War. The School was based at the Blackpool Technical College and Palatine Secondary School in Blackpool. Training of women at the School began in 1941.