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Description: | British civilian in London, 1914-1919
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. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Brooks, Margaret A | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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