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WWII

  • 50 temporary houses for Garden City
    50 temporary houses for Garden City
    Urban District Council make a choice
  • A R P First Aid Stations
    A R P First Aid Stations
    And the St Johns Ambulance members who operated them
  • Air Raid Shelters
    Air Raid Shelters
    The following group of photos show the digging of air raid shelters and trenches with in the town centre of Welwyn Garden ...
  • Airman's Escape from Crete
    Airman's Escape from Crete
    Flight Lieutenant D S G Honor, fugitive for six days.
  • Blackout curtains
    Blackout curtains
    2/11d per yard
  • Bomb on residential area
    Bomb on residential area
    Four killed and three injured
  • Bombing
    Bombing
    October 1941
  • Coping with the Blitz
    Coping with the Blitz
    Growing up in war-time WGC
  • Eugene F.H. Strauss: Some 1940s Memories of Welwyn Garden City
    Eugene F.H. Strauss: Some 1940s Memories of Welwyn Garden City
    In the early days of the Blitz, circa 1940 when I was 15, my widowed mother and I — together ...
  • From Vienna to WGC on the Kindertransport
    From Vienna to WGC on the Kindertransport
    Gerda Stanley's fascinating story
  • Jewish Refugees come to Welwyn Garden City
    Jewish Refugees come to Welwyn Garden City
    WGC Interfaith Storytelling Event Tuesday, 23 November 2010
  • Living in Welwyn Garden City between 1939 - 1945
    Living in Welwyn Garden City between 1939 - 1945
    This is a memory by Gillian Peall who moved to live in Welwyn Garden City in 1939 when she was ...
  • Memories of the very first VE Day in London
    Memories of the very first VE Day in London
    A Welwyn Garden legend recalls
  • Panshanger Aerodrome
    Panshanger Aerodrome
    Historical Summary
  • Paper Rationing
    Paper Rationing
    Your Local Newspaper
  • Provisional cost of Local A.R.P
    Provisional cost of Local A.R.P
    The Period of Emergency
  • RAF Mill Green
    RAF Mill Green
    WW2 Airfield Construction Wing
  • Service to customers
    Service to customers
    "All Clear" and "Siren Shopping"
  • Spitfire Week - October 1940
    Spitfire Week - October 1940
    Welwyn Garden City raises money to buy a Spitfire
  • Things they do at Banks
    Things they do at Banks
    The Welwyn Times 7 September 1939
  • Troops visiting Murphy Radio
    Troops visiting Murphy Radio
    A vital role in the War effort
  • VE - Day in Welwyn Garden City
    VE - Day in Welwyn Garden City
    The town celebrates the end of the war in Europe
  • VJ-Day in Welwyn Garden City
    VJ-Day in Welwyn Garden City
    The town celebrates VJ Day
  • Wartime evacuees
    Wartime evacuees
    Born under a Morrison table in the blitz
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