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15 October 2014
WW2 - People's War

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The Stratford upon Avon Society
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In 1990 an oral history project was launched in Stratford upon Avon, as a joint venture between the Stratford upon Avon Society and the Records Office of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. By the autumn of 2004, we had collected 190 interviews, of which 177 had been transcribed.
When the 大象传媒 People鈥檚 War project was launched, these transcripts were examined and a number were chosen that included reference to WWII. The relevant sections were then added to the People鈥檚 War website.
For 9 weeks in April and May, we participated in Wartime Wednesdays at the local library, and from that gathered a great many more stories.
The whole lot have now been added either to The Stratford Society website or the Warwickshire Library site - and our grand total of interviews and transcriptions has now reached 238. Of the large number of stories that related to the war, the 60 that were taken from oral history interviews had to be edited before being added to the site, so that they read as 鈥渟tories鈥 rather than interviews..
Peace has thus broken out in Stratford upon Avon, but the oral history project relating to the town continues.

Stories contributed by The Stratford upon Avon Society

Stratford Invasion! [by Ministries and GIs]
War Brings in the Patients
Adventures of a Wartime Bus Conductress
Stratford D Company goes to War
Life as a Wartime RAF Photographer
Firemen in the Blitz
Teenage Fun in Wartime; then a Pilot's Wife
A Bride's War Effort (wife of a Royal Engineer)
A Bride's War Effort - her husband's story
The Dam Buster Pilots
Life in the Forces Psychiatric Service
German Refugees in Cheltenham
German Refugees in Cheltenham (continued): Helmut's Story
A Medical Student in the Blitz; Relieving Belsen Camp
A Medic in the Blitz; Relieving Belsen Camp
Get Those Merlin Engines Back in the Air!
A Schoolboy in Wartime Stratford
Buzz Bombs to VE Day
Buzz Bombs to VE Day (continued)
An Infantry Officer at Dunkirk and in POW Campicon for Recommended story
Called Up - and Demobilised
The Shakespeare Hotel and what the War did to it
Kelly Lamps and Searchlights
Conscientious Objector
The Factory that Never Was
Evacuees in Stratford
Home Guard to the Real Thing (in India)
Adventures of a Land Girl
A Navy Wife's War
Playing Soccer with the POWs
Shottery Post Office in Wartime
My Time as a Police Runner, and as a Royal Marine
ATC Adventures, then the Real Thing
The Dam Buster Pilots (concluded)
The Alvis Aero Factory (by Stratford Tesco!)
From Brum to the Land Army
Stratford Characters
A Stratford Boyhood 1940 - 1945
A Schoolgirl Evacuee finds Happiness in Stratford
Adventures of a Girl Lumberjack in the Land Army
Extract from The Life and Times of Douglas Tuckey
A boy at the edge of the War
Another Memberof Stratford's Waldron's Warriors joins the Infantry
Extract from the Life and Times of Douglas Tuckey: Chapter Two
Escape to the Land Army
Hard Landing - Hard Biscuits: a Paratrooper's Perspective of D Day
Making do - hard times for a wartime boy in Bolton
Dennis Vokins, Transport Man [Part One ]
Dennis Vokins, Transport Man [part two]
Life in the Civil Nursing Reserve
A Childhood Memory of the War
Schooldays and Munitions Work - Two Sisters
The American Scene
Land girls round Stratford
A newly-wed in Wartime Yorkshire - Part Two
A newly-wed in Wartime Yorkshire - Part One
Hosting the Americans in Wartime Stratford
War around the Austin - Part One
War around the Austin - Part Two
Life at the Air Ministry - Part Two
Life at the Air Ministry - Part One
An Engineer's War - Part One
An Engineer's War - Part Two
Children's roles in the War
Stratford in the War
Land Army Days - Pleasures and Privations of an 18 year-old [Part One]
Land Army Days - Pleasures and Privations of an 18 Year-Old [Part Two]
Enid's Story - Nursing bomb casualties and soldiers - Part One
Enid's Story - Nursing bomb casualties and soldiers - Part Two
Red Cross Nurse
From Army Orderly to Secret Service Lady
A Tailor-Made Career during the War
Frightening Times in Boyhood

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