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Description: | The entries are written in a Letts' Popular Diary of 1940. The identity of the author is unknown, but she was probably in her mid to late teens and evidently lived close to the Arboretum. She makes a careful record of air raid warnings and the sounding of the "All Clear" and there are numerous entries relating to air raids and crashed aircraft.
A brief summary of some of the most interesting entries is provided below:
26 January 1941. "Went to Sunday School in morning. Prize distribution in afternoon at 2.30. Mr W. J. Brown President & Mrs W. J. Brown presented the prizes. Got 81 out of 104 marks. Myself & C Watson got "Orbell" Memorial Prize."
27 January 1940. "AIR RAID WARNING 2 o'clock?went straight in shelters. ALL CLEAR 3.20. very cold in shelters?.The King & Queen came to Lincoln went to Waddington etc. secret visit."
15 February 1941. "Dad went fire watching on the station at 11 o'clock just after 11. hear machine gun fire a lot of planes about."
27 February 1941. "Went to see "Incediary [sic] Bomb Film" at All Saints Parish Hall over 8.30 p.m."
2 March 1941. "Went to Thomas Cooper Memorial to see Lanthern Lecture on "Palistine" [sic] by the Revd Cassar very good coloured slides."
12 March 1941. "Incediary [sic] Bombs dropped about 80. Carholme Road one on Ruston's."
22 March 1941. "During the night bombs dropped on St Swithin's School. Woke up with bang. 5 injured & 1 killed. Houses badly damaged, windows broken on Winn Street. No warning 4 bombs dropped."
7 May 1941. "... about 1 o'clock bombs dropped at Boultham & Waddington got up, windows and doors rattled."
10 May 1941. "... went down to Boultham in afternoon to see bomb damage with mam, Dad & Doris on bus."
30 May 1941. "?went selling Daisies at night with Joan did Vine Street & Cheviot Street finished at 8.15."
21 July 1941. "One of our Bombers Crashed on Lindum Hill about 4 a.m. Saw glare in sky?"
22 July 1941. "Went with Mum to see plane crash on Lindum Hill, all four of the crew were killed & Senior French Mistress of Girls High School, plane crashed into Mistress's Boarding House 3 escaped without injury."
20 September 1941. "Took tea to work, went straight to Pictures after work - Savoy to see "Target for Tonight" experiences of a crew of a Wellington Bomber over Germany, also "The Letter" Bette Davies enjoyed "Target for Tonight" didn't like the other picture very much." | Temporal: | 1 Jan 1941-1 Feb 1942 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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