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15 October 2014
WW2 - People's War

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Wakefield Libraries & Information Services
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I'm Christine Wadsworth, Senior Cultural Officer: Local Studies, for Wakefield Metropolitan District Libraries and Information Services. The Library Service enrolled as an Associate Centre for the 大象传媒 WW2 People's War Project and events such as story gathering sessions, exhibitions, and ICT taster sessions were held during 2004/2005 at the Bullenshaw Day Centre, Hemsworth, at Library Headquarters, Balne Lane, Wakefield, the Airedale Centre, Airedale and in Ackworth, Altofts, Castleford, Featherstone, Flanshaw, Hemsworth, Horbury, Kettlethorpe, Normanton, Ossett, Outwood, Pontefract, Sandal, South Elmsall, Stanley, Upton, and Walton Libraries
We are very grateful for the help and involvement of library staff, FOCAL (Friends of Castleford Library), Friends of Ossett Library, volunteers, experts and local people with a story to tell who have put time and effort into making this project a success.

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Stories contributed by Wakefield Libraries & Information Services

Featherstone Home Guard
WW2: Seen through the eyes of a child in the Welsh Valleys.
The Pram and the Bananaicon for Recommended story
Lord Haw Haw and the Catholic Church.
Matthew George Killingbeck
Eugine's Reminisences
Active Service: With the Royal Corps of Signals
Castleford Air Raid
Telegram Boy
"Curse the Hun"
D-Day Dodger's War
Gunner Leek (1619814)
Shelter in the Playground: In North East England
My War Injury: Service with the WVS in Castlefordicon for Recommended story
The Munition Filling Station
The Baedecker Raids
The Shelter
Wragby at War
A Wragby Family's Grief
My War at Sea
WAR TIME MEMORIES IN STANLEY
War Time Memories in Stanley by Tom Stennett
Doodlebugs over London
Life in London, the V 2 and V.E.Day
Driver L. Crabtree, Royal Engineers - 2123787
War is Declared
Sad News
A Housewife Remembers
The Limbert Family
Mrs Holmes Tells Her Story
A Yorkie's Waricon for Story with photo
West Yorkshire Regiment
A SCHOOLBOY REMEMBERS
Remembering World War Two
Jack Nash K.O.Y.L.I.
An Ossett Child's Memories of World War II
Teenage Life in Leeds
School Life in Ossett
Working in Wartime
VJ Day with the Girl Guidesicon for Recommended story
Visit to London
My Childhood in the Waricon for Story with photo
Through the Eyes of an Ossett Girl
German Plane
My Story
Driving in Germany, Italy and the Desert
Driving to Spandau
Life on the Home Front
The Only Plumber in Hemsworth
The Air-raid, the Doodle-Bug and the Burnt Table
Farm -Life in War-Time
Raw Recruits
Fallen Soldier
Narrow Escape
Jean, The Evacuee
I Was Eight Years Old...
My Memories of the War Years
My Memories as a War Child
With the Artillery
Evacuees; Giving Birth
Two Sisters Reminisce
South East Asia Command
VJ DAY 1945
Schoolchildren during World War Two
A Party At Crigglestone
MY MOTHER'S SHOP
"I Can Never Remember Going To Infant School."
British Legion Pilgrimage
Margaret's and Fred's Story
Memories collected from Bullenshaw Day Centre, Hemsworth, West Yorks
Memories of Margaret , Eve and Beatrice
Escape from a Polish Prisoner of War Camp.
The Day War Broke Out
Heavy Bombers
Sweetheart's Sonnet
I Remember the Day War was Declared
Weekend Pass
On the Periphery
Land Army Glamour
Cold Hesleden Waterworks
Fred Karno's Airforce
Ossett (W.Y.) in the War - 1939 - 1945
The Cross Channel Guns of Boulogne
A Jaunt in the Western Deserticon for Recommended story
A London Evacuee's War
From Hunslet To Farnborough
An Orphan Family In Wartime
Vera's War at Home
Cooking For Soldiers
From Quaker School To India
Mother gave Me Sixpence!
The Sheffield Blitz, 12 December 1940
Memories of Edna
Our Wartime Memories
Ackworth People's War
France Has Fallen!
Castleford Home Front
Gladys and Val Remember
Student Teacher - a memoir
Part 2 Student teacher - a memoir
Part 3 - Student teacher: a memoir
Mollie's Memoirs 1940-45
From School to the Royal Engineers
Kathleen's Unhappy War
Bill's War With The Royal Armoured Corp in Egypt and Italy
Repairing Wings!icon for Story with photo
A Leeds Schoolboy's Waricon for Recommended story
My Life as a VAD
Five and a Half years in the R.A.F.
Bill's War
Our Evacueeicon for Story with photo
Marion Carrington's Storyicon for Story with photo
Marion Carrington's Story Part 2: My Return To Teachingicon for Story with photo
Marion Carrington's Story Part 3: Letters Homeicon for Story with photo
Growing Up

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