The Cold War
From Lacey Green History
Also see :-
The Boer War (the Anglo-Boer War). click 1900 A Spectacular Welcome for the homecoming of Charles Evelyn Forrest.
WW1 28th July 1914 to 11th November 1918. click WW1 for articles
WW2 1st September 1939 to 2nd July 1945 in Europe, and 8th May 1945 in Japan. click WW2 for articles
The Cold War started 12th March to 25 December 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".