While all the rural residents had air raid shelters, she found them unnecessary overkill in those quieter areas. Robbie spent much of the War as a Land Army girl, posted to a farm outside Witham to help keep the country’s agriculture growing and fill the gaps of men sent overseas to fight.Ĭopyright: © IWM Art.IWM PST 16608. Therefore there is no one common experience of what living through the War was like: it depended on personal circumstances.įor instance, the extent to which people’s lives were disrupted by air raids depended on where they were living. Some had family members who served in the military, some lost loved ones either at home or abroad, and some came through the ordeal relatively unscathed. Some were evacuated, some stayed at home.
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Many of the participants grew up in London and were therefore prey to the Blitz and the stresses and strains that caused.
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Thus the collection contains multiple perspectives, with different levels of understanding about current events, and different levels of impact experienced. The participants ranged in age, from those who were still children in the 1940s, to those who were old enough to fight or serve the war effort in some other way. After training provided by ERO, Southend ATF interviewed 18 people specifically about their memories of the Second World War. ATF also helps young people develop their sense of self by finding out about their heritage.īuilding on the successful Heroes and Villains project, which allowed young people to explore the stories of individuals from Southend’s past, further funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund has allowed Southend ATF to encourage young people to hear the stories of residents in local sheltered accommodation. By participation in sports and other recreational activities, young people develop skills and capacities to mature into individuals and members of society. Southend Achievement Through Football (ATF) is an organisation dedicated to changing lives through football, especially the lives of young people at risk of exclusion.
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Is that a valid comparison? What was it really like to live through that major event? Thankfully, there are still some people who remember those years and can share their stories with us. Frequently over the last several months commentators have compared living through the COVID-19 pandemic to life on the Home Front in the Second World War.