Difference between revisions of "WW2"
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Click [[Evacuees]] regarding children sent here out of London. Also adults who stayed here, with reports from their hosts. | Click [[Evacuees]] regarding children sent here out of London. Also adults who stayed here, with reports from their hosts. | ||
| − | + | Click [[1945 Wartime jobs for schoolboy Gordon]] for a snapshot of life at that time. | |
Revision as of 12:22, 17 December 2023
click Wars for local details of the Boer War, WW1, WW2, & The Cold War
WW2 started 1st September 1939 it ended 2nd July 1945 in Europe and ended May 8th 1945 in Japan
Click Bomber Command for Bomber Command Headquarters and RAF officers houses were built in the woods at the far south of Lacey Green.
Click Lacey Green Airfield for details.
Also Click 1944 Stocken Farm Airfield for more details and photos.
Click the New Road for details
Click 1945 Standard rationing WW2 for details
Click The Home Guard for details.
Click The Windmill for details of Home Guard lookout duties there
Click Carters Merchants Ltd. for details of the business brought to Church Lane in WW2
Extract from Loosley House " In 1939 to 1945, North Kensington Nursery School was evacuated to Loosley House, home of Arthur & Joyce Waite.
Click Princes Risborough Auxillary Fire Service for local men who fought the 'blitz'
Extract from research by Doug Tilbury on Lacey Green School. "Some 30 children were evacuated to Lacey Green and Loosley Row who attended Lacey Green school. An extra teacher from London, Miss French, came to assist the teachers".
Click Evacuees regarding children sent here out of London. Also adults who stayed here, with reports from their hosts.
Click 1945 Wartime jobs for schoolboy Gordon for a snapshot of life at that time.