My other web sites:
Rosemary Laurey http://www.rosemarylaurey.com
Forever Vampires http://www.forevervampires.com
Research sites for WW2
http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/
The London Transport Museum. Click on "photo Collection' in the side bar and then 'Second World War' for an impressive collection of contemporary photos.
http://www.btinternet.com/~david.waller/index.htm
Information about Auxillary Units (the British Resistance in the event of invasion) from 1940-44
http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk/
The Imperial war Museum.
http://www.show.me.uk/hosted/pro/act.htm
Shopping during the war. An interactive site intended for children but fun and interesting for everyone.
http://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/19/makemend/make_and_spend.htm
Mend, Make or Spend. Another interactive game, this time about shopping during clothing rationing.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/fashion/knitting/1940s/index.html
Knitting Patterns of the 1940s.
Alice's grandmother and her knitting circle would have used these to knit their 'Comforts' for the troops.
I was particularly intrigued by the Balaclava helmet with ear flats for a radio operator, and the gloves with removable fingers for gunners.
http://www.diduknow.info/blitz/index.html
The Liverpool Blitz. Not rural Surrey but some details about the war on Merseyside.
http://www.schoolsliaison.org.uk/kids/bombdamage.htm
WW2 'Fun site' from the Birmingham Museum.
http://www.j-sainsbury.com/museum/war_intro.htm
Sainsbury's Virtual Museum. Information on rationing, employment of women during the war and a case study of how the East Grinstead store continued business after the shop was bombed in July '43 and hit a year later by a flying bomb.
http://www.worldwar2exraf.co.uk/Online%20Museum/Museum%20Docs/foodration.html
A very detailed site about the progression of food rationing
http://www.worldwar2exraf.co.uk/Online%20Museum/Museum%20Docs/Cost%20of%20living%202.htm
Wartime cost of living.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWhomeguard.htm
About the Home Guard. Sergeant Pendragon's war work.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/
The BBC's People's War' web site. A very extensive collection of personal accounts.
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/projects/dob/
Defense of Britain Project- has photos of land defences built to impede invasion.
http://www.pillboxesuk.co.uk/
More land defences, this site is specific to pill boxes.
http://www.nbcd.org.uk/arp/
Information about Air Raid Precautions.
http://www.exetermemories.co.uk/EM/exeterblitz.html
Eyewitness accounts of the bombing of Exeter in April and May 1942, in retaliation for the bombing of Lubeck.
http://www.aycliffeangels.org.uk/
Web site about work in a munitions plant during the war.
http://www.plymouthdata.info/Second%20World%20War-1940.htm
Plymouth during the War. A detailed site with many pages and information arranged chronologically by year.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~engsheffield/blitz/blitz.htm
The Sheffield Blitz. December 1040.
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