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1940s

  • A Fishy Tale

    A Fishy Tale

    An unusual story of wartime rationing
  • A Village Childhood - Carol

    A Village Childhood - Carol

    A Village Childhood One mile north of the North Bucks border is the village of Hartwell where my father’s family had ...
  • An Introduction - Home Front

    An Introduction - Home Front

  • ATS - Home Front

    ATS - Home Front

  • Bletchley Train Driver - Mr Tew

    Bletchley Train Driver - Mr Tew

    My brother in law… my sister married a railwayman, he was a signalman and he said why don’t you try ...
  • Civil Defense - Home Front

    Civil Defense - Home Front

  • Dig for Victory - Home Front

    Dig for Victory - Home Front

  • Entertainment - Home Front

    Entertainment - Home Front

  • Evacuees - Home Front

    Evacuees - Home Front

  • From Bar Boy to Driver - Mr Panter

    From Bar Boy to Driver - Mr Panter

    I was born in Osborne Street in Bletchley. We was an old railway family I think, me Dad worked on ...
  • Home Farm Whaddon, Buckinghamshire, during the Second World War - Robert Excell

    Home Farm Whaddon, Buckinghamshire, during the Second World War - Robert Excell

       
  • Home Front

    Home Front

    The following exhibition panels contain a selection of memories, photographs and extracts from recorded interviews held in the World War ...
  • John Haynes-MY LIFE THROUGH THE YEARS

    John Haynes-MY LIFE THROUGH THE YEARS

    My life through the years   I stayed there until I was 15 years which was the age to leave in those ...
  • Land Army - Home Front

    Land Army - Home Front

  • Make do and Mend - Home Front

    Make do and Mend - Home Front

  • Our Farm in the 40's and 50's - Pauline

    Our Farm in the 40's and 50's - Pauline

    Our farm in the 1940’s and 1950’s Early Memories One of my earliest memories is being carried on my father’s shoulders through ...
  • Rationing - Home Front

    Rationing - Home Front

  • The evacuees in Wolverton & New Bradwell

    The evacuees in Wolverton & New Bradwell

    Memories of World War 2
  • Town and country

    Town and country

    An evacuee's experience
  • VE Day - Home Front

    VE Day - Home Front

  • Wolverton Works Annual Christmas Raffle

    Wolverton Works Annual Christmas Raffle

    The photograph shows the display of the prizes for the Annual Christmas Raffle in Wolverton Works (date unknown). Raffles for benevolent ...
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