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15 October 2014
WW2 - People's War

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Somerset County Museum Team
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The Somerset County Museum Team are a group of volunteers who are recording Somerset people's memories of WWII, either in a written form or as an oral archive. During the summer months of this year the museum is presenting an exhibition about life in Somerset during those times with a special emphasis on the home front.

Stories contributed by Somerset County Museum Team

Women Working Long Hours in Engineeringicon for Story with photo
A Somerset Boy Remembers an American Soldiericon for Story with photo
Who Fired the Rifle and Hit Jesse Salvidge's Guttering?icon for Story with photo
An Italian Prisoner of War Remembers Somerset
When a German Bomber Crashed at Puriton
Sitting Next to the Mayor
Evacuation to Dorset - September 1939
The Worst Night of Our Lives
Memories of Evacuation 1940-44icon for Story with photo
Molly Thomas' Memories of Taunton and Bristol
Evacuation from Ilford to Somerset - 1st September 1939
The Day the Bomb Fell on Tauntonicon for Story with photo
Evacuation from the Elephant and Castle to Tauntonicon for Story with photo
Improvisation Sir
War comes to a village in Essex
Invasion of Singapore
Recollections of Wartime in Bridgwater
A Quiet War - A personal reminiscence of World War II - Part I
A Quiet War - A personal reminiscence of World War II - Part II
Tomatoes, symphony concerts, and a British Restaurant
If I smell an oil stove I smell new baked bread
Chasing pigs in Somerset and bomb disposal in Norfolkicon for Story with photo
Back in London in time for the Blitz
A Schoolgirl Remembers Life Under the German Invaders, Part Iicon for Story with photo
A Schoolgirl Remembers Life Under the German Invaders, Part II
Working for the Ministry of Food
With a Different Ring of Ice Around the Bath Everyday
To Get Into Bed I Used to Climb a Rope Ladder
Posted to 'Hellfire Corner'
Sugar and Soap from Hawaii
My life in the Somerset Village of Stoke St Gregory - Part I
My Life in the Somerset Village of Stoke St Gregory - Part II
A Slippery Fish and a Ball of Wool
The Council Had Ordered Hundreds and Hundreds of Wooden Boxes
Extra Stars for the Americans

Somerset County Museum Team added messages to the following stories

Women working long hours in Engineering

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