Summer: 1939
Declaration and Evacuation
The Battle of Britain 1940
The Blitz
Handsworth's War
The People's War
One Village's War
Coventry's Hell
Remembering
Home Front Archive

You Could Taste The Country Air

Malvern Hills to Herefordshire

Close to the Wind. DVD-Audio
Released. 25th September 2001

Faces and Phases by Bill Jervis

the section from Bill Jervis'
series about a fictional family,
Faces and Phases, that brings
us to the eve of WW II

this section from Bill Jervis'
series about a fictional family,
Faces and Phases, that brings
us to the eve of WW II,
continued from Prelude to War

a history of a truly
British Institution
with sections on
the 30's and 40's

the underground shelters
In the long hot summer of 1939
Plymouthians witnessed the
impending and eventual outbreak
of World War II. The extended
school summer holiday saw
furious activity in the deserted
school playgrounds and verdant
public parklands. Mechanical
excavators were busy digging
trenches in these playgrounds,
in almost every City park, and
in many sports grounds. Not
even little green shrub borders
were spared.

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