DeptName
Documents

IDNO
2766

OtherNumber
86/45/2

ItemName
Private Papers of F M Speed

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
33 volumes of a diary, September 1939 - August 1944, April 1946 - January 1948 and January 1950 - March 1964, kept by a lady novelist living in Brixton, London, in which she describes and records her daily life in vivid detail with interesting references to the Blitz and the destruction of her family's clothing business in the City of London, rationing, ARP work, civilian morale, her work as a part-time journalist and writer, V weapons, American and British servicemen, and the war news in general, followed by her post war experiences and reflections on life in post-war Britain and on world politics.

MakerName
Speed

Forenames
F M

Style
Miss

RelatedIWMItems
See also file of her brother Mr S E Speed

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
Rationing

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31

URLEncodedDeptName
Documents

Access
Unrestricted

DeptName
Documents

IDNO
2078

OtherNumber
92/25/1

ItemName
Private Papers of R Ridge

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
22 ms letters (127pp) written between January 1942 - October 1947, mostly by a Canadian woman living in Toronto to a London family; the correspondence resulted from her participation in a scheme to send dolls and sweets to children in wartime Britain, and in addition to references to this activity there are also frequent comments on the domestic situation in Canada, especially food and petrol rationing and the increasing scarcity of goods in the shops, also the concern felt for Canadian servicemen abroad and the deteriorating job prospects of those who return home; together with an album of photographs showing individuals mentioned in the letters.

MakerName
Ridge

Forenames
R

Style
Mrs

RelatedImageFile
RidgeR_002078_10.jpg

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
Rationing

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
12/09/2006 05:50:12

URLEncodedDeptName
Documents

Access
Unrestricted

IndexPlace
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
London, England, UK

IndexEvent
Home Front, Canada, Second World War
Rationing

PDF
RidgeR_002078_10.pdf

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Documents

IDNO
2423

OtherNumber
Con Shelf

ItemName
Private Papers of G and E Butling

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
100 ms letters written between two young brothers in Liverpool, George and Eric Butling, and their father, Private A J Butling, during his First World War service in France with the Army Service Corps, giving a good insight into the life of children during the war, their education, their perception of how the war is progressing, the excitement of seeing captured submarines and destroyers in the docks, the effects of rationing and "making-do", the games they play and family life, together with copies of 19 ms letters between their younger sister, Grace, and their father, containing mostly domestic and school news.

MakerName
Butling

Forenames
G and E

RelatedIWMItems
See full catalogue

RelatedTextFile
Butling.doc

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
Rationing

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31

URLEncodedDeptName
Documents

Access
Unrestricted

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Documents

IDNO
1177

OtherNumber
Con Shelf

ItemName
Private Papers of E Elkus

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
A large collection of ms and ts letters in 5 bound volumes written to her in California between September 1938 and April 1947 by some twenty five relatives and friends of different ages, schooling and political persuasion in England and Scotland. The correspondents are primarily from London, though quite a number had been evacuated to the country, among them several teachers, and the letters include especially interesting references to the Munich settlement, evacuation (as seen by teachers, adults and children) and the anxieties of separation, rationing and shortages, the bombing of London and Liverpool in 1940 - 1941 and of Exeter in 1942, the general progress of the war and in particular the Russian war effort, and political developments in Britain.

MakerName
Elkus

AlternativeName
nee Britton

Forenames
E

Style
Mrs

RelatedIWMItems
See also the papers of her parents Mr and Mrs G Britton (Con Shelf)

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
Rationing

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31

URLEncodedDeptName
Documents

Access
Unrestricted

DeptName
Documents

IDNO
2590

OtherNumber
Con Shelf & 92/49/1

ItemName
Private Papers of E Fernside

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
129 ms letters (829pp) written from her home in Fulham to her son, F R Fernside, a sergeant serving with the HQ of No 19 Fire Command RA at Inchkeith on the Firth of Forth (March 1916 - February 1920), providing useful details about civilian conditions in London during the First World War, including the riots and violence relating to the Belgian refugees in London (May 1916), the increasing food shortages and the eventual introduction of rationing at the end of 1917, the allotment schemes started in 1917, details of the damage caused by air raids, making do for Christmas, the War Loans effort, the celebrations at the end of the war, the slow readjustment of the country to peacetime conditions, with references to entertainment at home and in the towns, the 1918 General Election, and the Joy Loan efforts of 1919; together with 20 ms letters to Sergeant Fernside from friends and relatives either at home or overseas and an official ts letter notifying him of his liability to arrest as a deserter if he does not join at Dover immediately (March 1916).

MakerName
Fernside

Forenames
E

Style
Mrs

RelatedIWMItems
See full catalogue

RelatedTextFile
EFernside.doc

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
Rationing

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31

URLEncodedDeptName
Documents

Access
Unrestricted

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Documents

IDNO
2836

OtherNumber
Misc 171 (2627)

ObjectType
Miscellaneous Documents

ShortSummary
32 ms and ts accounts, letters and transcripts of interviews (169pp, mostly photocopies) relating to the experiences of men and women involved in the production of food in Britain during the Second World War, including Ruth Mott and Harry Dodson (central figures in the BBC's serial documentary THE WARTIME KITCHEN AND GARDEN), members of the Women's Land Army, women trained in horticulture (particularly at Swanley Horticultural College), and gardeners, as well as officials from the Ministry of Food, members of the Women's Institute, and housewives commenting on the effects of rationing, wartime cookery, and 'making-do'. These papers include very good details of the gardening and farming methods used throughout this period, and brief mention is made of the relationship between the military occupants of many of the landed estates and the horticultural staff, the reaction of the land workers to their employment alongside German prisoners of war, the popular practice of keeping hens, 'Dig for Victory' weeks, air raids, allotments, and the education of children and adults about food economy and production.

RelatedIWMItems
See also the collection of Miss M E Merritt in the Department of Documents, DCAR(SR) and full catalogue

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
Rationing

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31

URLEncodedDeptName
Documents

Access
Unrestricted

DeptName
Documents

IDNO
3484

OtherNumber
96/1/1

ItemName
Private Papers of H Khuner

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
Collection of papers comprising: drafts of magazine articles written by Mrs Khuner, and related material (circa 150pp ts/ms), dating from the Second World War, concerning a variety of subjects including maternity and the care of infants in wartime, evacuation within Britain and to the United States, US relief work in Britain, life in wartime Argentina, and a description of an unconvoyed voyage from Argentina to Britain; miscellaneous papers concerning wartime clothes rationing and 'make-do and mend', and various Board of Trade publications on the subject; various papers relating to Mr Khuner's postwar position as Assistant Chief of the Food and Agriculture Division, Control Commission for Germany, including a lengthy article on agricultural production in the Anglo-American zones of Germany, CCG travel documents and other papers issued to him and his wife, official War Office papers concerning procedures for families travelling to Germany as part of BAOR/CCG, and other papers accumulated in Germany during the later 1940s (including an extensive collection of mainly CCG-related invitation-cards received by the Khuners in Berlin).

MakerName
Khuner

Forenames
H

Style
Mr and Mrs

RelatedIWMItems
See full catalogue

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
Rationing

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31

URLEncodedDeptName
Documents

Access
Unrestricted

DeptName
Documents

IDNO
11845

OtherNumber
02/19/1

ItemName
Private Papers of C Albrecht

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
5 interesting ms letters (total 28pp) written to his English wife during service as a Lieutenant in the US Army Signal Corps Pictorial Service, November 1945, billeted in Liverpool where he was awaiting embarkation back home to the United States and giving his opinion of British society at that time, especially in terms of the changes that wartime shortages of food and fuel had brought, while making comparisons to living conditions in America.

MakerName
Albrecht

Forenames
C

Style
Captain

RelatedIWMItems
See also FILM (ref MGH 5105) for amateur film shot by Captain Albrecht

RelatedImageFile
AlbrechtC_011845_1.jpg

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
Rationing

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
19/09/2006 05:50:09

URLEncodedDeptName
Documents

Access
Unrestricted

IndexPlace
Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK
USA

IndexEvent
Home Front, UK, Second World War

PDF
AlbrechtC_011845_1.pdf

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Documents

IDNO
12359

OtherNumber
02/23/1

ItemName
Private Papers of L R Pearson

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
4 ms letters (34pp) sent between April 1940 and May 1942 from her home in York to her aunt and uncle in the USA containing mainly family news but also including references to rationing, high prices and shortages of food (particularly fruit), the difficulties of finding staff for their shop, her husband’s firewatching duties and her own service in the Women’s Voluntary Service (WVS), also mentioning the marriage of her niece to a fighter pilot, Flight Lieutenant G Allard DFC, their pride at having a flying ace in their family and their shock and sadness at his death in a flying accident (March 1941) and including a vivid description of the ‘Baedeker’ air raid on York in April 1942 in which her own home was badly damaged and made uninhabitable, numerous other houses in her street destroyed and many friends and neighbours were killed.

MakerName
Pearson

Forenames
L R

Style
Mrs

RelatedImageFile
PearsonLR_012359_.jpg

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
Rationing

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31

URLEncodedDeptName
Documents

Access
Unrestricted

IndexPlace
York, North Riding, Yorkshire, England, UK
USA

IndexEvent
Blitz, United Kingdom, Second World War
Baedeker Raids 1942, United Kingdom, Second World War
Rationing
Home Front, UK, Second World War

IndexEventDate
Baedeker Raid on York April 1942, United Kingdom, Second World War [new term]

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
613

ProductionDate
10/Feb/1975

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexObjects
airship: German, Zeppelin

IndexPeople
Howell, Annie M xxx
Roberts, Annie M xxx
Cornwell, Jack
Cornwell, John Travers

IndexPlaces
GB, England
GB, England & London
GB, England & London <Blackfrairs>
GB, England & London <Bermondsey, Southwark>
GB, England & Seaford
GB, England & Sussex, East

IndexUnits
GB.O & Hepburn & Gale Gas Mask Factory, Bermondsey, London

ShortSummary
British civilian in London, 1914-1919

FullSummary
REEL 1 Background in Blackfriars and Bermondsey, south east London 1903-1914: family; education. Recollections of period in London, 1914-1919: wartime work; air raids and seeing Zeppelins shot down; wartime shortages and children foraging for coal and food; community feeling; father's wartime service; mother providing for family; childhood view of war; Second World War experiences; seeing soldiers on leave.
REEL 2 Continues: family's service experiences; anti-German propaganda; aspects of family life; work in emery mill; making gas masks; living accommodation and food; religious outlook; ignorance of nature of war.
REEL 3 Continues: public anti-German feelings; society's colour prejudice; social inequalities then and now; father's war souvenirs; evening classes and clubs; giving wages to mother; use of pawnbrokers.
REEL 4 Continues: leaving school Easter 1917 aged thirteen; school collection for Jack Cornwell VC; financial hardship while father in Army; lighting fires for air raid watchmen; reactions to seeing Zeppelin shot down; coal and food shortages; mother taking in washing; cheap food; scavenging coal and fruit.
REEL 5 Continues: work at emery mills 1917; pay and hours; sheltered upbringing; description of work at Hepburn & Gale gas mask factory; working conditions.
REEL 6 Continues: strike breaking; ignorance about use of gas masks; street games; impressions of Australian soldiers in London; sight of father in uniform; propaganda against Germans.
REEL 7 Continues: wartime songs; local civil disturbances; soldier brother in law's field punishment and later death in front line; Belgians resident in Bermondsey. Second World War experiences in Seaford, East Sussex and London: air raids; attempted German infiltrators at Seaford; coastal defences. London 1914-1919: damage to German shops.
REEL 8 Continues: sheltering from air raids; living conditions; giving pay to mother; leisure activities; mother's restrictiveness and own religious feelings; Second World War air raid experiences; mother's restrictiveness.

ContextDescription
Civilian Life And War Work, 1914-1919: Home Front, 1914-1918
Civilian Life And War Work, 1914-1919: War Work, 1914-1918

Duration
115

NumberOfParts
8

OtherFormats
Full : 66pp

MakerName
Howell, Annie Mary

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Female

Language
English

RelatedIWMItems
Photograph (SR 14) of Annie Howell during First World War bound in transcript

RelatedSoundFile
000613S01.mp3
Howell-civilians.mp3

Weighting
750
900

SubThemeTag
Rationing

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
6087

ProductionDate
22/Feb/1982

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexPeople
Bennett, Peter G xxx
Bennett, Dorothy A

IndexPlaces
GB, England

IndexConcepts
Refugee
Evacuee

ShortSummary
British civilian child of evacuee host at Godalming, Surrey, 1939-1943

ContextDescription
Civilian Life And War Work, 1939-1945: Home Front, 1939-1945

Duration
123

NumberOfParts
5

OtherFormats
Full : 48pp

MakerName
Bennett, Peter Gordon

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Male

Language
English

RelatedIWMItems
Photograph (3/Sep/1939) in file
IWM interview with mother, Dorothy Bennett, AC 5387

RelatedSoundFile
006087S01.mp3
006087S02.mp3
Bennett-civilians.mp3

Weighting
750
900

SubThemeTag
Rationing

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
8264

ProductionDate
1984-08-08

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexPeople
Hornblower, Hildegard Lina Ludovica xxx

IndexPlaces
DE
DE & Hamburg
DE & Hanover

IndexUnits
DE.O & Political Party, Sozial-Demokratische Partei

IndexConcepts
Anti semitism
Holocaust

ShortSummary
German civilian in Hamburg and Hanover, Germany, 1932-1945

FullSummary
REEL 1 Recollections of period as civilian in Hamburg, Germany, 1932-1945: family; family’s socialist background; education; family political activities with Sozial-Demokratische Partei; political disturbances on streets, 1932; Socialists relationship with Communists; faith in part of population in Hitler; membership of socialist youth organisation; welcoming news from outside Germany; arrest of socialist youth leader by Gestapo; individuals who disappeared; changes in individuals on their release from captivity by regime; problems of organising resistance to regime; Nazi policy of ‘family responsibility’.
REEL 2 Continues: Nazis use of agent provocateurs; Catholic opposition to Nazism; geographical variations in political influence; nature of resistance to regime; behaviour of schoolmates over politics; obligation of join Hitler Youth movement from 1/4/1938; effect of Nazism on unemployment levels; death of sister, 1945; Nazis smashing windows of Jewish owned shops.
REEL 3 Continues: smuggling of Jews out of Germany; degree of knowledge of German civilians of concentration camps; attitude of German civilians to Jewish persecution; gradual Nazi take over; character of Nazi regime; excessive German patriotism; public reaction to declaration of Second World War, 9/1939; food rations; degree of public credence of Nazis propaganda; timing of appearance of doubts about German ability to win war; attitude of civilian population to war by 1944-1945; effect of bombing on public morale.
REEL 4 Continues: strain on civilians; attitude towards RAF; sight of POWs; sight of returning German wounded; wish of anti-Nazis for German defeat; escape from Hanover at end of war; her return to Hanover; moving of houseboat out of Russian Zone; refusal of occupying troops to fraternise with German civilians.

ContextDescription
Nazi Europe, 1933-1945

Duration
120

NumberOfParts
4

OtherFormats
Full: 4pp

MakerName
Hornblower, Hildegard Lina Ludovica

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Female

Language
English

RelatedSoundFile
008264S01.mp3
Hornblower-civilians.mp3

Weighting
750
900

SubThemeTag
Rationing

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
15 October 2008

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
German

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
9108

ProductionDate
16/Oct/1985

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexPeople
Wood, Violet xxx

IndexPlaces
GB, England
GB, England & Oswestry, Shropshire
GB, England & Moulton

IndexUnits
GB.O & Women's Land Army

ShortSummary
British civilian worked with Women's Land Army in Shropshire, 1941-1945

FullSummary
REEL 1 Aspects of family and educational background. Recollections of joining Women's Land Army and training, 1941: reaction to outbreak of war; reasons for joining WLA; joining WLA; posting to training camp at Moulton; training; duties; pay; uniform; accommodation; attitude towards training. Recollections of period with Women's Land Army, 1941-1945: posting to Dairy Farm, Oswestry; attitude towards living on farm; duties; welfare for Land Girls; daily routine; adapting to physical nature of work; working hours; coping with adverse weather conditions; uniform.
REEL 2 Continues: uniform; social life; question of accidents; pay and leave; attitude towards being billeted on farm; coping with sick animals; attitude towards work; physical impact of work; leaving farm due to illness of brother; transfer to WLA hostel; general domestic duties; nursing sick brother; death of brother; move to farm at Derwen Cripples Training College which was being used as Military Hospital, 1942; duties; witnessing trains of wounded returning from D-Day and Normandy beaches, 6/1944; contact with wounded at hospital; helping out at hospital; daily routine; threshing duties.
REEL 3 Continues: farm duties; lack of help; looking after Bull; water rationing; clothes rationing; relationship with staff and patients in hospital; social life; attitude towards US servicemen stationed in area; difficulty of visiting fiance; marriage; contact with district representative for WLA; attitude towards lack of recognition for work of WLA; impact of war on her life; witnessing air raids on Liverpool; end of war; VE and VJ Day celebrations.
REEL 4 Continues: leaving WLA due to back problems; attitude towards treatment of land girls by government post-war; expectations for post-war Britain.

ContextDescription
Civilian Life and War Work, 1939-1945

Duration
110

NumberOfParts
4

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
Wood, Violet

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Female

Language
English

RelatedSoundFile
WoodV-civilians.mp3

Weighting
750
900

SubThemeTag
Rationing

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
9355

ProductionDate
Jul/1986

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexPeople
Hill, Betty xxx

IndexPlaces
GB, England
GB, England & London
GB, England & Clerkenwell, London
GB, England & Battersea, London
GB, England & Portsmouth

IndexUnits
GB.O & Telephone Exchange, Battersea
GB.O & Arc Manufacturing
GB.O & British Government, Ministry of Aircraft Production
GB.A & Royal Army Ordnance Depot
GB.O & London Passenger Transport Board

ShortSummary
British civilian worked as telephone operator at Ministry of Aircraft Production and as a bus conductor in London and for the Royal Army Ordnance depot in Portsmouth, 1939-1945

FullSummary
REEL 1 Aspects of family background. Recollections of life and work, London and Portsmouth, Hants, late 1930s-194: joining London Telecommunications; training at Clerkenwell; move to Battersea telephone exchange; pay and working hours; duties; system of shift work; rules and regulations; duties; opinion of training; bogus calls; relationship with supervisors; working at other London telephone exchanges; rules regarding marriage; leaving telephone exchange; brief period in Portsmouth; return to London; working for Arc Manufacturing; decision to return to Telephone service; outbreak of war, 9/1939; move to Ministry of Aircraft Production switchboard, 1939; accommodation; air raid shelters.
REEL 2 Continues: air raids; gas training; continuing to work switchboard during air raids; experience of air raids; fire-watching duties of local people; death of friend in air raid; returning to Portsmouth, c1940/41; employment at Royal Army Ordnance Depot; duties; employment of women at Depot; bombing of Portsmouth; blackout; air raid shelters; public morale.
REEL 3 Continues: morale; gas bags on vehicles; transport difficulties; leisure activities; transport; V2 raids; air raids in London; conditions in air raid shelters; travel; conditions in shelters; description of Ministry of Aircraft Production Shelter, London; story of crater left by bomb in Vauxhall Bridge Road; question of fear; attitude towards work of Emergency Services; working through air raids; description of telephone system, London; working hours.
REEL 4 Continues: attitude towards leaving London; working at Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Portsmouth; increasing independence of women during war; question of pay; decision to return to London, 1942; employment as bus conductor by London Passenger Transport Board; bus conductor training; duties as bus conductor; preparation of buses for blackout; problems for buses during blackout; story of dealing with passengers on overcrowded bus; working on bus during air raids; pay; working hours; facilities at bus depots; food rations; food queues; clothing rations.
REEL 5 Continues: clothing rations; attitude towards wearing trousers; receiving news that husband missing presumed dead; remarriage and pregnancy; evacuation to Oxford for birth of baby; extra rations during pregnancy; description of utility pram; extra clothing coupons; returning to London; V2 raids; taking young child into air raid shelter; question of leaving London; end of war; adapting to life post-war; impact of war on women's emancipation; post-war rationing; opinion of Americans.

ContextDescription
Civilian Life and War Work, 1939-1945

Duration
150

NumberOfParts
5

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
Hill, Betty

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Female

Language
English

RelatedSoundFile
Hill-civilians.mp3

Weighting
750
900

SubThemeTag
Rationing

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
9847

ProductionDate
Jun/1987

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexPeople
Pleydell-Bouverie, Pearl xxx
Pleydell-Bouverie, Alice Pearl xxx
Barrington Crake, Alice Pearl xxx
Montagu, Lady xxx

IndexPlaces
GB, England
GB, England & Yorkshire
GB, England & Newcastle
GB, England & London
GB, England & Beaulieu, Hants
GB, England & New Forest, Hants

IndexUnits
GB.O & British Red Cross Society
GB.O & British Government, Military Intelligence Directive, War Office
GB.O & Air Raid Precautions

IndexConcepts
Evacuee
Medical Services

ShortSummary
British civilian worked as Red Cross volunteer in Yorkshire and with Military Intelligence Directive at War Office, London, 1914-1919. Life on the Beaulieu Estate, Hants, 1939-1945

FullSummary
REEL 1 Aspects of family and educational background. Recollections of life and work, 1914-1919: reaction to outbreak of war; hearing sound of guns on visit to Bexhill; voluntary work at Crathorne Hospital, Yorkshire; serving food to patients and staff; relations with Matron; duties; social life; move to work for Military Intelligence Directive at War Office; clerical duties; secrecy surrounding work; other staff at Directive; pay; story of watching Zeppelin attack; reaction to deaths of male friends and relatives during war.
REEL 2 Continues: memories of Armistice day; leaving Military Intelligence Directive. Recollections of life, 1939-1945: helping to find accommodation for evacuees; organising removal of small boats from Beaulieu River; food rations and supplementing rations; use of Beaulieu estate as Special Operations Executive <SOE> training establishment; assisting Air Raid Precautions unit based at Beaulieu; air raid shelters; decision to evacuate three of her Children to Canada; kindness of Canadians towards her children.
REEL 3 Continues: petrol rationing; food rations; transport difficulties; Red Cross activities at Beaulieu; building of bailey bridge over Beaulieu river; installation of fuel tanks at Beaulieu for D-Day; memories of American troops stationed in area; D-Day; contact with husband throughout war; end of war; story of holding children's party; preparing Palace House to billet crew of HMS Patience.

ContextDescription
Civilian Life and War Work, 1914-1919
Civilian Life and War Work, 1939-1945

Duration
80

NumberOfParts
3

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
Pleydell-Bouverie, Pearl

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Female

Language
English

RelatedIWMItems
Photos in file
Mother of Anne Chichester SR 9354

RelatedSoundFile
PleydellBouverie-civilians.mp3

Weighting
750
900

SubThemeTag
Rationing

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
12496

ProductionDate
5/Mar/1992

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexPeople
Rockey, Hazel xxx
Kington, Hazel M xxx

IndexPlaces
GB, England
SE
SE & Geneva
GB, Wales
GB, Wales & Swansea
GB, Wales & Bridgend, Glamorgan
GB, England & Reading, Berkshire
GB, England & Weston-Super-Mare
GB, England & East Brent, Somerset
GB, England & Bridgewater, Somerset

IndexUnits
GB.A & Factory, Royal Ordnance

ShortSummary
British civilian worked at munitions factories in GB, 1940-1945

FullSummary
REEL 1 Aspects of family and educational background. Recollections of period in Europe, late 1930s: atmosphere in Netherlands, 1938; outbreak of war whilst in Switzerland, 3/9/1939; journey to GB via France. Recollections of period in Wales, 1939-1941: attitude towards friend who left GB; move to Swansea; attitude towards women's services; applying for munitions work; employment at munitions factory as chemist's assistant, Bridgend, 4/1940; description of factory; factory products; organisation of factory; duties.
REEL 2 Continues: air raid shelters; segregation of men and women in air raid shelters; morale; attitude towards Germans; shifts worked; physical impact of munitions work; relations between men and women in factory; entertainment for factory workers; attitude towards those not engaged in war work; food and clothing rations and ration books; reasons for leaving Wales. Recollections of period in Reading, Berkshire, 1941-1942: employment at detonator factory, Reading, 1941; description of piece work system.
REEL 3 Continues: work making fuses; production line system; accidents in factory; piece work system; reasons for leaving Reading. Recollections of period in Somerset, 1942-1945: incendiary bombing of Weston-Super-Mare, 7/1942; air raid on East Brent, 1943; employment at parachute factory, Bridgewater, 1942-1943; wire splicing duties; story of how she complained to factory management about treatment of workers; attitude towards wire splicing work; move to Royal Ordnance Factory, Bridgewater; production of plastic explosive.
REEL 4 Continues: description of factory; physical effects of munitions work; protective clothing; story of how she burnt her hands; physical effects of munitions work; levels of production at factory; attitude towards munitions work; keeping animals for extra food; food rations; cigarette alcohol rations; black market; impact of war on mother's health; question of payment for medical treatment.

ContextDescription
Civilian Life and War Work, 1939-1945

Duration
120

NumberOfParts
4

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
Rockey, Hazel Mavis

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Female

Language
English

RelatedSoundFile
Rockey-civilians.mp3

Weighting
750
900

SubThemeTag
Rationing

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
14987

ProductionDate
18/Jan/1995

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexObjects
aircraft, British: Supermarine Spitfire

IndexPeople
Gray, Irene O xxx
Malyon, Irene O xxx
Mitchell, Reginald J
Summers, J 'Mutt'

IndexPlaces
GB, England
GB, England & Leeds, Yorkshire
GB, England & Southampton, Hampshire
GB, England & Hythe, Hampshire
GB, England & Woolston, Hampshire

IndexUnits
GB.O & Aviation Coy, Supermarine
GB.O & Air Raid Precautions, ARP
GB.O & Civil Defence, HQ, New Forest

ShortSummary
British civilian secretary with Supermarine, 1930-1937; living in Southampton , 1938-1945

FullSummary
REEL 1 Recollections of life in Leeds and Southampton, 1913-1930s: family background; memories of First World War, father's service in Royal Army Medical Corps; death of father from stroke; education; various jobs; secretarial training; move to Southampton; employment; applying for job at Supermarine Aviation works; interview. Recollections of period working at Supermarine Aviation Works, Hythe and Woolston, c1930-1937: secretarial work; memories of flying boats; memories of R J Mitchell; memories of first spitfire flight by 'Mutt' Summers.
REEL 2 Continues: work of R J Mitchell on Spitfire design; memories of R J Mitchell; attitude towards leaving Supermarine in 1937; opinion of pre-war test pilots; opinion of Spitfire; anticipation of war. Recollections of life and work with ARP in Southampton/New Forest area, 1938-1945: public morale; preparations for war; joining Air Raid Precautions, 1938; employment as Air Raid Warden, Control HQ, Totton; preparations for war during phoney war period, 1939-1940; system of warnings for air raids; air raid shelters.
REEL 3 Continues: public air raid shelters; difficulties for mothers during war; food rations; rationing of clothing and furniture; husband's reserved occupation in shipping; bombing of Southampton and surrounding area; necessity of blackout; enforcing blackout; fears of and preparations in case of German invasion, 1940; help offered to soldiers evacuated from Dunkirk by local people.
REEL 4 Continues: watching Battle of Britain dog fights; witnessing aircraft flying to France for D-Day, 1944; story of using her pet dog to help demonstrate gas masks to children; lack of criminal activity; presence of American and Canadian firemen in area; attitude towards Lord Haw Haw's broadcasts; Royal visit to bombed Southampton; attitude towards role of fire service during Blitz; provisions for pregnant women and birth of babies.
REEL 5 Continues: provisions for pregnant women; V1 and V2 raids on Southampton; help offered to Southampton Blitz refugees by people of Totton; listening to radio; preparation of ARP for possible German invasion; duties watching and investigating possible spies; story of husband's investigation into possible 'fifth columnist'; memories of VE day. Reflections on Second World War: impact of war on her life; impact of war on situation of women; attitude towards her wartime work with ARP.
REEL 6 Continues: attitude towards commemoration of 50th anniversary of war, 1995; attitude towards Japanese and Germans; leaflets containing Hitler's speech to Reichstag July 1940 dropped over South of England; contribution of women to war effort.

ContextDescription
Civilian Life and War Work, 1939-1945: Home Front, 1939-1945

Duration
155

NumberOfParts
6

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
Gray, Irene Olive

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Female

Language
English

RelatedIWMItems
Notes on wartime life in file
Photographs as air raid warden in file

RelatedSoundFile
014987S01.mp3
014987S02.mp3
Gray-civilians.mp3
Gray2-civilians.mp3

Weighting
750
900

SubThemeTag
UnderFire
Rationing

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
16630

ProductionDate
28/Mar/1996

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexPeople
Patten, Marguerite xxx
Patten, Hilda E M xxx
Brown, Hilda E M xxx
Brown, Marguerite xxx

IndexPlaces
GB, England
GB, England & Lincoln
GB, England & Cambridge

IndexUnits
GB.O & British Government, Ministry of Food
GB.O & Fridgidaire
GB.O & Shop, Harrods

ShortSummary
British civilian home economist worked for Ministry of Food, 1942-1945 and for Food Advice Bureau, Harrods Department Store in London, 1943-1951

FullSummary
REEL 1 Aspects of family and educational background. Recollections of life and work: obtaining job with Eastern Electricity Board; lack of appliances in homes; giving demonstrations on how to use electrical appliances; leaving job to take up acting career; obtaining job as Home Economist with Fridgidaire, 1938; decision to give up acting; end of work with Fridgidaire, 1939. Recollections of life and work, 1939-1945: memories of outbreak of war; work in ARP canteen; move to Lincoln to work for electrical company; giving demonstrations on how to cook with rations; obtaining job with Ministry of Food, 1942.
REEL 2 Continues: role of Ministry of Food's Food Advice Centre; duties as Senior Home Economist; cookery demonstrations; marriage to RAF bomber crew member; impact of service on husband and fellow aircrew; description of wedding; promoting the correct way to cook vegetables; returning to Barnet to give birth to baby; arranging childcare in order to return to work for Ministry of Food; story of cookery demonstration on Isle of Dogs; obtaining post in Food Advice Bureau at Harrods; food rationing system; cooking with dried eggs; food situation in restaurants and canteens; unrationed foods.
REEL 3 Continues: unrationed foods; description of points system; story of how brother collected tinned fruit from overseas for wedding; boosting morale through her cookery demonstrations; lessons to be learnt from wartime rationing; attitude towards being part of 'Kitchen Front'; public attitude towards rationing by end of war; rationing of clothes and other goods; problems experienced by well off, undomesticated women; story of how she helped the Princess Royal; contributing to Kitchen Front broadcasts; importance of radio broadcasts for morale; creating new recipes; difficulty of using soyaghetti and salt cod; success of her eggless cakes; public attitude towards whale meat and snoek; question of fairness of rationing system; question of black market.
REEL 4 Continues: jam making campaign; Potato Pete campaign; description of various other food campaigns; role of dieticians; opinion of rationing system; influx of new electrical appliances post-war; speaking on Women's Hour broadcasts; impact of war on situation of women; cookery demonstrations post-war; becoming first television cook, 1947; return of Bananas; media success post-war; attitude towards war years; standard of cooking in Britain; role of Ministry of Food during the war and how a similar approach could be useful today; public interest in her wartime work today.
REEL 5 Continues: giving wartime food cookery demonstrations at IWM, 1995; launch of her 'Victory Cookbook'; memories of VE and VJ Day celebrations; attitude towards V weapons raids; appearance of Harrods Food Hall during the war; attitude towards her wartime experiences.

ContextDescription
Civilian Life and War Work, 1939-1945

Duration
135

NumberOfParts
5

OtherFormats
None

MakerName
Patten, Marguerite

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Female

Language
English

RelatedIWMItems
Further items in Photograph and Film Archives.
Photograph (1996) in file

RelatedSoundFile
Patten-civilians.mp3

Weighting
750
900

SubThemeTag
Rationing

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Sound

IDNO
20321

ProductionDate
Apr/2000

ObjectType
IWM interview

IndexPeople
Williams, Viola xxx
Templer, Sir Gerald
Templer, Lady
Dabbah, Katy

IndexPlaces
GB, England
GB, England & Salisbury, Wilts
GB, England & Reading, Berks
GB, England & Sheffield, Yorks
GB, England & Stockton, Yorks
GB, England & Bristol,
IN
IN & Calcutta
BU
BU & Rangoon
TH
TH & Bangkok
MY
MY & Kuala Lumpur
KR
KR & Seoul
KR & Tong Nae
JP
JP & Tokyo
JO
GH
NG
SD

IndexUnits
GB.O & University Women's Camp for Schoolgirls
GB.O & University, Reading
GB.O & Women's Farm and Garden Association
GB.O & Wiltshire War Agricultural Committee, Horticultural Dept
GB.O & Women's Land Army
GB.O & First Aid Nursing Yeomanry
GB.O & London Parks Department
GB.O & West Sussex County Council
GB.O & Women's Institute
GB.O & Young Women's Christian Association
GB.O & Worldwide Young Women's Christian Association
JO.O & Refugee Camp, Aquar Jaba
GB.O & British Government, Ministry of Overseas Development

IndexConcepts
Decolonisation
Race

ShortSummary
British civilian served with Wiltshire War Agricultural Committee in GB, 1940-1945 and with First Aid Nursing Yeomanry in Far East, 1945. Humanitarian work with Young Women's Christian Association and Ministry of Overseas Development in GB, Korea, Malaya, Jordan, Ghana, Nigeria and Sudan, 1945-1980

FullSummary
REEL 1 Recollections of family background and life pre-1939: death of mother; attitude towards father; holidays with University Women's Camp for Schoolgirls, including one in Holland, 1939; opinion of education; choosing horticulture as a career; gardening work at Wilton Park; lack of middle class women in horticulture in 1930s; work clothing; diploma course at Reading University, 1935-1937; injury in car accident.
REEL 2 Continues: work for Women's Farm and Garden Association; attitude of men towards female gardeners; various jobs during early months of war, 6/1939-1940. Recollections of period working for Horticultural Dept of Wiltshire War Agriculture Committee, 1940-1945: organisation of horticulture after 5/1940, Dig for Victory campaign; duties advising locals on horticultural matters; assessing farmer's needs for landgirls and farming equipment; ensuring all allotments cultivated; contribution of civilian population to Dig for Victory campaign; working with livestock, particularly pigs.
REEL 3 Continues: details of pig farming; demonstrating how to keep pigs to local population; animals kept by civilians; use of horses for work; patrol rationing; 'Dig for Victory' and 'Grow for Victory' campaigns; shortage of fertilisers and use of organic methods; use of human faeces as fertiliser; methods of pest control; information leaflets provided by WAC; ensuring local councils used all available land for growing; contribution of Stately Homes in turning over land to grow vegetables.
REEL 4 Continues: description of Jam Scheme; running of Jam Centres in village halls; arrival of canning machines from US; involvement of Women's Institute with Jam Scheme; opportunities for learning and training courses; enjoyment of war work; attitude towards work of Land Army; attitude towards working with landgirls; question of success of wartime agricultural/horticultural schemes; environmental costs of wartime agriculture; attempts to join services.
REEL 5 Aspects of joining the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, 1945: recruitment; training; opinion of uniform. Aspects of journey to Far East and period in Calcutta, 1945: reception in Middle East; train journey to Calcutta; duties; attitude towards rules regarding relations between Officer FANYs and lower ranks; tropical uniform. Recollections of period with FANYs in Rangoon, 1945: arrival in Rangoon; witnessing Allied POWs returning from Burma Railway area; physical condition of POWs; concert given by Gracie Fields; attitude towards behaviour of Noel Coward; billets; war devastation of Rangoon and shortage of supplies; work with POWs.
REEL 6 Continues: FANYs role working with 14th 'Forgotten' Army; relations with Indian troops; physical and mental condition of POWs. Various aspects of brief stay in Saigon. Recollections of period with FANYs in Thailand, 1945: first impressions of Bangkok; wartime and post-war situation in Bangkok; mess arrangements; duties; relations with Japanese; opinion of Japanese; arrival of Dutch refugees from Indonesia; welfare work with Dutch refugees.
REEL 7 Continues: story of Dutch refugee ship that hit a mine; arrival of another women's group; attitude towards FANYs role in Bangkok; question of adapting to foreign cultures; pregnancies in FANYs; attitude towards Lord Mountbatten and General Slim; reaction to learning of Labour Party victory in GB; supplies of cigarettes and alcohol; celebrations on Christmas Day, 1945; story of Danish Ambassador's reaction to tolerant attitude of British towards Japanese and Germans; illness and transfer to Malaya. Recollections of period in Malaya: arrival in Singapore; accommodation.
REEL 8 Continues: welfare work with troops; precautions medical problems; travelling around Malaya. Journey to GB aboard troopship and demobilisation, summer 1946: social activities on board; arrival at Southampton and loss of luggage; attitude towards work with FANYs; demob, 1946; reaction to being refused job in Ministry of Agriculture. Aspects of working with London Parks Dept: attitude towards job; attitude of male employees towards female employees. Aspects of working for West Sussex County Council; working in Home Economics for Rural Domestic Economy; duties; canning fruit.
REEL 9 Further recollections of war work in GB: attitude towards ARP training course; training in nuclear defence post-war; increase of opportunities for women during war; impact of war on women's emancipation; opinion that gap between town and country closed during war; environmental costs of wartime agricultural policies; dangers of wartime driving.
REEL 10 Continues: dangers of wartime driving. Recollections of working in Malaya, early 1950s: formation of Women's Institute in Malaya by Lady Templer; selection to help run WI; journey by plane; duties helping to set up WI units in Malayan villages; role of Institute in villages; travelling in Malaya; contact with Sultan's wives; democratic nature of WI ballots in villages; movement of Chinese into New Villages; Lady Templer's work with WI; multiracial nature of Malayan population; attempting to encourage aboriginal women to join WI; WI meetings.
REEL 11 Continues: success of WI in Malaya; rejection of her idea to set up WI in Chinese camp-village; taking apart in Queen Elizabeth's coronation procession, Kuala Lumpur, 1953; security precautions against possibility guerrilla attack; memories of Sir Gerald Templer; relationship with Lady Templer; success of Malayan WI; attitude towards work in Malaya.
REEL 12 Continues: Further aspects of life in 1946: inadequate accommodation; using public baths; rationing. Recollections of period in South Korea with YWCA, 1955-1958: selection by YWCA to take over Korean orphanage for teenage girls; arrival at Tong Nae; poor conditions in orphanage; aim to educate teenage girls; arranged marriages of some girls; living conditions in Korea, 1955; situation of orphans; problem of malnutrition; support from nearby US Army camp; medical services for orphanage; coping with stress of job.
REEL 13 Continues: question of religious hospital alleged to have forced patients to attend a religious service before treatment; psychological problems of some orphans; story of orphan Eun Hee; language difficulties; benefits of life in orphanage for the girls; orphanage activities; traumatic backgrounds of orphans; 'Mutual Service' aid scheme; shoes and clothes sent from New Zealand; occasion when shot at by police for failing to stop at police check; gradual recovery of community; obtaining Korean driving license; police and customs corruption.
REEL 14 Continues: success of orphanage by late 1958; closure of orphanage one year after her departure; belief in encouraging third world countries to help themselves; shortage of food; agricultural work on orphanage farm; work of CARE organisation; problems of tuberculosis (TB) and malaria; use of geese as watchdogs; unsuitable machinery donated to third world by aid organisations; difficulty of providing agricultural advice to locals; attitude of local people towards foreigners; occasion when suspected of being a British spy coping with stress of job; visits to Japan.
REEL 15 Continues: story of trip to Canada; political situation in South Korea; working with Mrs Park (wife of 1960s leader Park Chung Hee); political situation and position of YWCA; presence of US and UN in South; gradual post-war recovery; food; description of winter food, 'Kimchi'; attitude of Koreans towards Japanese; problem of illegitimate children of American soldiers; attempts to ensure safe future for orphans; question of birth control.
REEL 16 Continues: gradual acceptance of illegitimate children of US soldiers in society; attempts to find homes for white illegitimate babies in US homes; visits to Tokyo; story of watching 'Bridge Over the River Kwai' in Japan and reaction of Japanese audience; attitude of South Koreans towards North Korea; attitude towards politics; difficulties faced by humanitarian workers; police protection against armed robbers.
REEL 17 Continues: Aspects of work clearing slums in Sheffield and Stockton. Recollections of working for YWCA in Jordan, 1960-1962: work with Palestinian refugees at Aquar Jaba camp; education of refugees; setting up nursery school for Palestinian children; communicating with Arab staff; information on Katy Dabbah, now head of refugee programme in Jerusalem; recent visits to Israel and Jordan and reaction to situation there; situation of Arabs living in Jerusalem; visiting Lebanon, 1970s and violent situation there; impact of lack of water in area.
REEL 18 Continues: attitude towards modernisation of Jerusalem and Bethlehem today; attitude towards peace talks, summer 2000; achievements of YWCA in area; difficulty for YWCA in maintaining neutrality; opinions on possibility of stability in area. Recollections of period in Somalia under Ministry of Overseas Development, 1960s: duties helping Somalian women to organise themselves; story of how British were expelled from Somalia after GB government decided to break diplomatic relations; attitude of Somali women towards her efforts to organise them; situation in Somalia today; legacy of colonial system in Somalia.
REEL 19 Continues: Recollections of period in Ghana, 1960s: working once again for YWCA whilst still seconded to Ministry of OD; communist nature of Nkrumah regime and National Council of Women; role of Annie Jiagge (later first black high court judge in Commonwealth); relations between YWCA and NCW; experiencing successful coup against Nkrumah; opinion of Nkrumah; success of some of Nkrumah's policies; impressions of Ghana today; opinion of Ghanaian leader, Jerry Rawlings; power of market women in Ghana; attitude towards work of missionaries in Africa and question of whether their work encouraged inter-tribal rivalries.
REEL 20 Continues: tribal rivalries in Nigeria; attitude towards policies of Nkrumah in Ghana and Nyrere in Tanzania; meeting with women from the Chinese YWCA. Recollections of period in Kenya, 1966: duties in charge of women's organisations; working with Margaret Kenyatta; opinion of Tom Mboya and attitude towards his murder by his own tribe; opinion of President Kenyatta; political situation in Kenyatta, late 1960s; Girl Guide movement; impressions on visiting Uganda; question of corruption; Kenyattas attempts to include women in parliament; success of Julie Ojiambo; question of democracy in third world states.
REEL 21 Continues: attitude towards method of handing over of power to colonies by colonial powers; question of western racism and various incidents to illustrate this; race relations in Kenya, late 1960s; visit to Kenya in 1999 and dangerous situation there; economic gains for locals from growing Mera (drug); success in unifying women's organisations in late 1960s; providing scholarships via UNESCO. Recollections of period working at St Pauls, Bristol, 1970: duties working with Caribbean unemployed and Ugandan and Kenyan Asian immigrants; difficulties of job.
REEL 22 Continues: difficulties experienced by young black girls at school; organising scheme of English lessons and counselling; racist attitude of young Indian patient towards Sudanese doctor; attitude towards her race relations work in GB and world. Recollections of period in Nigeria: difficulties obtaining Visa; assisting in rebuilding and restarting training centre; attitude towards the arrival of three limousines sent by US for her use; examples of inappropriate aid sent to third world by western world; work rehabilitating schools.
REEL 23 Continues: success of Ibos in Nigeria since 1970s; devastation caused by Biafran war; problem of orphans and divided families as result of war; opinion of Nigeria; importance of her work with women in GB and third world; importance in providing practical aid post-conflict; attitude towards western attempts to impose their values on Africans.
REEL 24 Continues: Recollections of period in Sudan: impact of 17 year civil war; impossibility of setting up YWCA in Sudan; work with local women; economic situation and shortage of food; local rehabilitation of education, medical services, housing and agriculture; working with Rural Training Centre; achievements lost with start of new war, 1980; lack of world knowledge of situation in Sudan; story of how requests for aid for three projects turned down by UNICEF; attitude towards UN agencies; attitude towards work in Sudan.
REEL 25 Continues: story of being bitten by monkey and hospital treatment; risks to safety; carrying brick as weapon for safety. Reflections on work in third world: attitude towards methods employed in ending colonialism; belief in importance of population control in third world; attitude towards inappropriate aid sent to third world; opinion that post-crisis aid needs to be long term; question of effectiveness of aid in alleviating world's problems.
REEL 26 Continues: question of whether western aid agencies have a real understanding of third world needs; importance of beginning humanitarian work as bottom level; relations with African people; world wide success of YWCA and reasons for this; nature of International Council of Women and it's increasing contacts with governments; attitude towards the work of Salvation Army; inter-racial nature of YWCA.
REEL 27 Continues: attitude towards working with Save the Children; attitude towards work of Oxfam; importance of good will; attitude towards conflicts and intervention post-cold war; belief in the efforts of the individual; continuation of her work post retirement at age of 84.

ContextDescription
Civilian Life and War Work, 1939-1945
Civilian Life and War Work Since 1945

Duration
800

NumberOfParts
27

OtherFormats
Full : 236pp

MakerName
Williams, Viola

ProductionCompany
IWM

MakerGender
Female

Language
English

RelatedIWMItems
Photograph (2000) in file

RelatedSoundFile
WilliamsV-civilians.mp3

Weighting
750
900

SubThemeTag
Rationing

WebStatus
Published

UncatTransferDate
17 November 2006

URLEncodedDeptName
Sound

Access
IWM copyright

Nationality
British

DigitalAsset
Y

DeptName
Exhibits

IDNO
EPH 464

ItemName
pig-bin, British

ObjectType
misc

IndexUnits
GB.O & Bristol Corporation

FullSummary
The bins were issued by Bristol Corporation to householders in the city for the collection of waste for pigs.

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
Rationing

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 11:14:35

URLEncodedDeptName
Exhibits

FormatDescription
aluminium bin with BC embossed on the front

Access
Access by prior appointment

DeptName
Exhibits

IDNO
EPH 1746

ItemName
socks, pair, utility

ObjectType
misc

FullSummary
The Utility scheme was introduced in 1941 in order to ensure standard clothing was available at affordable prices for working-class families. The clothing was marked CC 41 and according to the Board of Trade the marks had no significance other than it indicated the date of its first use. CC probably derived from 'civilian clothing' and the marking was used for all Utility goods such as furniture. For further information see Christopher Sladen, 'The Conscription of Fashion: Utility Cloth, Clothing and Footwear 1941-1952' (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1995)

RelatedIWMItems
EPH

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
Rationing

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 11:14:35

URLEncodedDeptName
Exhibits

FormatDescription
black socks with printed inscription L52 H.H.B. beneath 'CC41' mark

Access
Access by prior appointment

DeptName
Exhibits

IDNO
EPH 3183

ProductionDate
c1943

ItemName
utility armchair

ObjectType
misc

FullSummary
This example appears similar to those arm chairs exhibited at one of the Board of Trade's exhibitions featuring Utility furniture organised in early 1943. The Utility scheme was introduced in 1941 in order to make standard affordable items for working-class families. All items were marked CC 41 and according to the Board of Trade the marks had no significance other than it indicated the date of its first use. CC probably derived from 'civilian clothing' but the marking was also used for all Utility goods such as furniture. For further information see Harriet Dover, 'Home Front Furniture: British Utility Design 1941-1951' (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1991).

RelatedIWMItems
EPH

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
Rationing

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 11:14:35

URLEncodedDeptName
Exhibits

FormatDescription
The chair has an upholstered back and seat with polished wood arms and legs. It measures 570 x 640 x 1015 mm

Access
On display at IWM London

DeptName
Film

IDNO
IWM 1122

ProductionDate
5/1918

ItemName
FATHER AND LATHER [Main]
[FILM TAGS] [series, allocated]

IndexEvents
31/3(41)

IndexObjects
propaganda, British - practical

ShortSummary
British fictional piece on the need to save soap and other fats, 1918.

FullSummary
A young girl works cleaning the kitchen floor of a house. When she has finished she tosses the soap and cloth into the sink, which is full of water. The cook tells her, gently, that the soap will waste if left in water and is made of fats which are scarce. Later, the girl returns home to find her father shaving. She calls her mother and explains what she has been told, and produces a soap dish for her father to use.

ContextDescription
Technical: this film is currently held on a single reel with films IWM 1121 and IWM 1123

Duration
2 mins

Format
P 1/35/A

Colour
B&W

Sound
Silent

NumberOfParts
1

Dimensions
136 ft

ProductionSponsor
Ministry of Information

ProductionCountry
GB

Language
None

LanguageMainTitles
English

LanguageSubtitles
English

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
Rationing

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:20:43

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
IWM

DeptName
Film

IDNO
MGH 4331

ProductionDate
1940 (ca)

ItemName
PAPER IS PRECIOUS [Main]

FullSummary
Trailer on the importance of saving and re-using paper.

ContextDescription
Acquisition: formerly held on same reel as AYY 132/03 - provenance unknown.

Duration
2 mins

Format
P 2/35/A

Colour
B&W

Sound
comopt

NumberOfParts
1

Dimensions
219 ft

ProductionCountry
GB

Language
English

LanguageMainTitles
English

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
Rationing

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:20:43

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
IWM

DeptName
Film

IDNO
S15 36

ProductionDate
1943

ItemName
WARWORK NEWS NO 36 [Main]

ShortSummary
I. "How to make-do-and-mend." An exhibition arranged by the Board of Trade in Harrods Store in London to show "substitution and conversion" economies includes a fashion display, with models wearing a patchwork dressing gown, a frock made from old plus-fours and an overcoat borrowed from a husband. Less elegant but no less practical is an improvised cot, a sack stretched between two chairs.
II. "News in flashes." a. The lull in the fighting in Italy enables reinforcements to move up to the front line. b. Speaking from his office the newly appointed Minister of Reconstruction, Lord Woolton, warns that the task of reconstruction "will take many years." He describes the priorities as "food, homes and work."
III. "The other man's job. Equipment for airborne troops." Manufacture and demonstration views of the newly designed folding bicycle weighing 20 lbs. and the miniature folding motor-bike, with a two-stroke engine and weighing 65 lbs, which will both be used by airborne troops in the invasion of Europe. Parachute containers are also seen being manufactured.

Duration
9 mins

Format
P 1/35/N

Colour
B&W

Sound
comopt

NumberOfParts
1

Dimensions
855 ft

ProductionSponsor
Ministry of Supply

ProductionCompany
British Paramount News

Language
English

LanguageMainTitles
English

LanguageSubtitles
None

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
Rationing

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:20:43

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
IWM