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Revision as of 12:30, 30 July 2025
The end o the Cold War in 1991 is listed in Social Snapshots 1969-2000 inc
click Wars for local details of the Boer War, WW1, WW2, & The Cold War.
The Cold War lasted from 12th March 1947 to 25 December 1991
click 1947 Cold War Started in which Doug Tilbury, member of The Local Parish Council, became the Local Defence Volunteer to take on the training to prepare for, and what to do in the event of, a local nuclear strike from Russia.
click 1991 Cold War Ended for description of the field ovens with which the Civil Defence Volunteers were issued and how some were used locally after 1991.
click 1967 The Last Village Bobby by P.C. Smith in which he describes his equipment and the air raid siren, about which he explained :-
"This was the cold war 1960’s and our nearest neighbour was Strike Command Headquarters, the Soviet Union’s number one nuclear target.
I did a test run with the siren; it took 45 minutes to drag it out into my front garden, read the instructions and assemble it. The estimated time of arrival of a nuclear missile strike was 4 minutes; this left me 41 minutes short of warning the good folk of Lacey Green of a very loud bang".