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15 October 2014
WW2 - People's War

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Braintree Library
User ID: U786751

For the duration of the PW2 Project, we will be encouraging members of the public to share their memories and stories which they can enter onto the website themselves using the Library computers or the staff will be happy to do it for them.

Braintree Library is situated in the town centre adjacent to the market place and is open 7 days a week.
Fairfield Road
Braintree
Essex
CM7 3YL
Tel: 01376 320752
Email: braintree.library@essexcc.gov.uk

Open: Mon, Tues, Wed 9 - 7; Thurs 9 - 1; Fri 9 - 8; Sat 9 - 5; Sun 1 - 4.

Stories contributed by Braintree Library

Memories of WW2 in Derby
Homeless in Bermondsey
Girl Guides helping the War effort
Our Anderson Sheltericon for Recommended story
Peace
All Flying and no Fighting!
Watching the bombers
"Open the door, Richard"
Life in an Anderson Shelter
Bombs over Braintree
Evacuation: Letchworth
Evacuation: Oxfordshire
Gas Masks
Evacuation: Croydon
POWS on the farm
Evacuees in Rutland
Bombs
VE Day and VJ Day
Bombs Over Chadwell Heath and a Chance Encounter 30 Years Later
A POW's story
Evacuated to St Albans
American Airmen in Stebbing
The German Pilot and the Home Guard
Buried in our Anderson Shelter
Memories of Evacuation
Surviving a Direct Hit on our Home
A Schoolboy's Memories of Evacuation
Bombs over Hatfield Peverel
A Braintree Family at War
On Minesweeping Patrol
Childhood Memories, Braintreeicon for Story with photo
Working as a Hairdresser
Nursing in London
Wartime Bravery Casts a Shadow Over Later Lifeicon for Story with photo
Working in London
Evacuated to Henley on Thames
Childhood Memories of WW2 in Braintree
The Blitz
Starting Work in WW2 in Croydon
On Duty in the WAAF in Stradishall
A German POW’s Story
Wartime Romanceicon for Story with photo
The Colour Blue
A Bevan Boy's memory
A child's view of German occupied Italyicon for Story with photo
A Trainee Nurse in Neath
At School in Coggeshall and then onto War…
Memories from WW2 in Coggeshall
Growing up in East Ham during the Waricon for Story with photo
Memories from World War 2 in Coggeshall
War Service Abroad as a Wireless Operator
A Young Wife’s Memory of Barkingside
Formative Years in Langdon Hills
Pattiswick in 1940
Pattiswick in 1943icon for Story with photo
Memories of Coggeshall as a Schoolboy
Childhood Memories of Coggeshall at War
My memories of Coggeshall
Memories of Wartime Chelmsford
Air Raid over Chelmsford — 13 May 1943
Starting work in Brighton Locomotive Works
A Schoolgirl’s Memories of Evacuation
Working at Earls Colne Air Field
Childhood Memories in Coggeshall
Father Comes Back from the War
Food on Ration
Evacuees in Wales
My War Story

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