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15 October 2014
WW2 - People's War

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Wymondham Learning Centre
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About links is a community run Adult Learning Centre in the market town of About links
Norfolk. We offer a full range of courses from 'taster' sessions through to accredited IT qualifications. Almost a thousand course places were filled in our Centre in the last twelve months, and we carry out extensive outreach in surrounding rural areas using laptop computers.

We work with local residents to raise awareness and skills in the areas of IT and About links and we are working as a ´óÏó´«Ã½ People's War Associate Centre to achieve this. Wymondham has a rich war time history as it was surrounded by About links. The base at About links
just outside Wymondham, is now the home of world-famous About links The local area had many other military installations including a large About links

Our plans for the ´óÏó´«Ã½ People's War include a programme of memory recording, and a course for Adult Learners using internet resources to explore the area's World War Two history. We are working closely with About links and other partners on this project.

Key project members are:

Jo Howell - lead project worker for story collection

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Lee Armstrong - Editor-In-Chief

Mark Goldspink - Wymondham Library Manager

We want to hear from local residents with memories, and also need volunteers to help with a range of work from transcribing stories to helping create displays.

To contact Wymondham Learning

Phone: 01953 600737

Fax: 01953 609776

To visit the Learning Centre

Our address is: 14, Middleton St, Wymondham, Norfolk, NR14 8HJ

We are located at the bottom (Abbey) end of the main street. The Centre does not face onto Middleton St. It is behind the Town Council Offices. Look for Jarrolds shop. Across the road there are blue double gates between Gipsons greengrocers and the Town Council Office. Go through these gates, and the Centre is ahead. There are several Pay and Display Car parks in easy walking distance, and restricted on road parking in Middleton St. The Centre only has parking for disabled learners, but there is plenty of space for cycles.

Stories contributed by Wymondham Learning Centre

A Wartime Weddingicon for Story with photo
Work of National Importanceicon for Story with photo
A Kaleidescope of Characters
Memories of the ‘Green Dragons,’ USAAF 389th Bomb Group at Hethel Old Chapelicon for Story with photo
Housing Evacuees in Wymondhamicon for Story with photo
It Seems like a Bad Dream........icon for Story with photo
An Evacuee to Wymondhamicon for Story with photo
Wartime Memories of a Norwich Girlicon for Story with photo
An African Adventureicon for Recommended storyicon for Story with photo
Posted to France - The Consolations of Food and Wine
Memories of the ATS, Spitfires, and the Blitzicon for Story with photo
Boy's Own War
Bombs over Harringay
Bombs in Great Ryburgh
Dodging the Bombsicon for Story with photo
Evacuation
Church Search
American Military Hospitalicon for Story with photo
Not the Usual Call of Duty
Rural Contrastsicon for Story with photo
To Osnabruck
There and Back Again
Farming in Wartime
Childhood in Wartime Edinburgh
An NCO’s war in the RAFicon for Story with photo
Work in the Laundry
Experiences at Netley Hospitalicon for Story with photo
Mess Waiter at Totland Bay Military Hospitalicon for Story with photo
Going AWOL
Happy memories of evacuationicon for Story with photo
HITLER IN BUCKINGHAM PALACEicon for Story with photo
THE BLITZ
That was the Week That was!icon for Story with photo
Colin's Evacuation Experiencesicon for Story with photo
Childhood Experiences of The Waricon for Story with photo
Out of The Cubby Hole
MUNITIONS IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
RATIONING
MY FIRST MEMORY
A FARMWORKER’S FAMILY IN TIME OF WAR
AIR RAID ON NORWICHicon for Story with photo
The Blitz - Earl's Court
Tending Cows in the Land Armyicon for Story with photo
Arakan Storyicon for Story with photo
WYMONDHAM WARTIME WEDDING
SERVING IN ENGLAND
THE HOME GUARD
Dog's food
Life at Home
Life as a Chindit
Agriculture in Norfolk
What did You do in the War, Phyllis?
Driving in the Waricon for Recommended storyicon for Story with photo
VE -day Letter from Lt William R Murchie:icon for Story with photo
The Lizard in Wartime
Spooner Row in Wartime
Wartime in Birmingham
Moving Around
Bombs on the Lizardicon for Story with photo
Bombs in Wymondham, Norfolk
War in Jamaica
Start of the War and Call-Up
Bethnal Road School Bombed
Many War Time Memories
A Wartime Romance
Bill Murchie on the Absence of Crickets and the Change of Seasons
Bill Murchie on Feeling English
A Boy’s Memories
Homefront Story
My Wartime Occupations
WW2: A Series of Mixed Fortunesicon for Story with photo
A Happy Ending
Community Spirit
Bringing Up Baby Alone
A Wartime Marriageicon for Story with photo
A Young Mother's War
A Very Rural War
A Child Growing Up In Rural Norfolkicon for Story with photo
A Mother's War
Life in Browick Rd School
Moulton - A Village Near Northampton
CYRIL SMITH’S MEMORIES - BOMBS TARGETED FOR WYMONDHAM RAILWAY LINE
Sweets in Wartimeicon for Story with photo
INSIDE THE SHOE SHOP
War in the Hertfordshire Countryside
Wartime in Cambridge
Olden Days in the Country
Memories of Two Sisters and a Husbandicon for Story with photo
A Happy Ending
A Young Mother in Wartime Norwichicon for Story with photo
From East Acton to Palestine and Backicon for Story with photo
An Army Instructor's War
Direct Hit at St Bartholomew's Church, Sydenham
Life in the Home Guard with Pikes
Life in a Sanatorium, Norfolk
Army Medical Corp
Life in a Small Country Hotel
War Life in Norwich
Hornchurch Aerodrome and Flying Bombs
Memories of Dunkirk
Child’s Play in Wymondham
A Few Memories of War In South Norwood
A Norfolk Village War
Bring them to Safety!
A Norfolk Land-Girlicon for Story with photo
Working at the Photographer's
Life as a Child in Silfield
At Sea in Wartimeicon for Recommended storyicon for Story with photo
Wartime Memories- 21 Searchlight Militia
Wartime Memories Part Two
Life with No.3 Group Bomber Command
THE WARTIME CONCERT PARTY
MY NORMANDY INVASION
ENTERTAINING THE TROOPS
MEMORIES OF BUNWELL SCHOOL
A LIBERATOR CRASHED IN NORFOLKicon for Story with photo
EVACUATION FROM GUERNSEY
ARMAMENTS IN NORFOLK
A CHILD HELPING WITH THE WAR EFFORT
AFTER WORK WITH THE LAND ARMY
Life with the Americansicon for Story with photo
Trapped Under the Bed
Making Engines
Preferred Home to Evacuation
I will lift my eyes up unto the hills . . .icon for Story with photo
You Dirty Rat . . . A Pest Controller in the Land Army.icon for Story with photo
Potatoes, Pitchforks and Poultryicon for Story with photo
American Ambulances and the Normandy Invasion
An Evacuee in Drinkston Green
CHILDHOOD MEMORIES OF THE 2ND WORLD WAR
The Bill Murchie Connectionicon for Story with photo
Life and Love in the ATS :Part 1icon for Story with photo
Life and Love in the ATS :Part 2
Victor Ludorum
Stories my father told me
The shrapnel was white-hot in the dark. Part 1.icon for Story with photo
The shrapnel was white-hot in the dark. Part 2.
Bomb shelters in Epsom, walks on Bodmin Moor: A wartime childhood.
A Farmer’s Daughter
A Warimte Childhood in London/Cornwall
LIFE FOR A SCHOOLBOY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR
LIVING WITH RATIONS
BOMBING OF LONDON : SEPTEMBER TO CHRISTMAS 1940
LEISURE TIME FOR A SCHOOLBOY
A Wartime Childhood in Ashtead
Black Bloomers and Blackout Curtainsicon for Story with photo
WARTIME EXPERIENCES OF KENNETH POTTS DFC
The Final Victory as seen from North-West Kent by an Eight Year Old
Issues in Orpington and the Local Area
Air-raid Practice in Chicago
War Zones
LIFE AS AN AERO ENGINE MECHANICicon for Story with photo
Wymondham - our foster home
Peg's story
Life in Wymondham for a Young Womanicon for Story with photo

Archive List
icon for Story with photoStory with photo

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