WW2

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.

Extract from Bill & Phyllis Dell -

"During WW2, Phyllis, still Phyllis Adams and single, worked at Bomber Command, making maps on thin cotton fabric.    Later her mother used this to make the hankies for her lace edgings, once the map pattern had been washed off."

Extract from Emily & Arthur Harvey of Harvey's Stores, Loosley Row -

"During WW2 Emily and her mother Annie still ran the shop.  Arthur had to work in an aircraft factory in Princes Risborough.   He still delivered the groceries after factory hours but the carrier business had to go.  After the war he worked at Bomber Command until he retired in 1973.

Extract from 2000 Memories of Con Baker -

" During WW2 I used to have to help in the foundry blowing the bellows, melting brass, and I had to help carry the crucibles after casting with the iron".