Dig For Victory Photo Gallery

The Vegetable Garden Displayed RHS 1942 Page 01 1

At Home Food From Your Own Space Read More Dig For Victory – The Vegetable Garden Displayed – THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 1942 From the Minister of Food, The Rt. Hon. Lord Woolton. “This is a food war. Every extra amount of vegetables in allotments saves shipping.  If we grow more potatoes we need not […]

Alston lady school sausages evacuees parlour

Houses Street Scene 1900 Alston Mkt Plce

Alston lady school sausages evacuees parlour This oral history was recorded for the Voices of Cumbria Millennium Project in 2000 commissioned by Cumbria Archives and was illustrated by Peter Nicholson using various images from various collections in Cumbria, permitted for educational use. Please help this community project by typing a summary of the video so […]

Soldiers describe D Day Arnhem Africa Italy three oral history videos

Army At War Arnhem The Photographers

Soldiers describe D Day Arnhem Africa Italy three oral history videos First soldier: Home Guard practice at Levens Garth Westmorland and this oral history is of a lad who threw clods of earth to and from the Home Guard.  Tank traps against Tiger tanks!  Bayonet danger – on the bus.  Target practice, oops a pig, […]

Soldier describes D Day Arnhem The Kings Regiment war oral history video

Army At War Arnhem Mortar About To Fire

Soldier describes D Day Arnhem in The Kings Regiment video Ambleside Oral history group record a WW2 soldier’s life from Kings Regiment Formby to Arnhem Bridge and Eindhoven Bridge.   For an impression of the action at Arnhem see Operation Market Garden & “A Bridge Too Far”.  To find out more about the Regiment visit Carlisle […]

Soldier at war Algiers Rommel Italy oral history video

Army At War Arnhem Field Gun In Action

Soldier at war Algiers Rommel Italy oral history video Started in Home Guard, guarding Thirlmere lake, one rifle one bullet for 2 nights a week, then trained in drill hall by WW1 sergeant. Then joined up in Royal Corps of Signals, trained in Wales. Devon Plymouth in big air raids, then moved to Scotland preparing […]

Home Guard Westmorland shot pig oral history video

Home Guard With Weapons On Canal World War WW2

Oral history Home Guard & WW2 Levens Bridge Westmorland oral history video Home Guard practice at Levens Garth Westmorland and this oral history is of a lad who threw clods of earth to and from the Home Guard. Tank traps against Tiger tanks! Bayonet danger – on the bus. Target practice, oops a pig, ah, […]

Home Guard Westmorland silent video

Home Guard Capture German Parachutist World War WW2

Home Guard Westmorland silent video Silent video from home movie taken during World War 2 in Westmorland (now part of Cumbria). Home Guard practice using local transport to set up an ambush in the fells in Cumbria. Camouflage their car. Cycle patrols and motor cycle communication teams. Night exercise with soft shoes and blackened faces […]

Lowca U Boat Photo Gallery

Lowca Submarine Daily Mail Sept 1 1915 Painting Of Submarine Shelling Lowca

Lowca shelled by German U Boat In World War 1 a German U Boat surfaced off the West Cumbrian coast and shelled the important industrial works at Lowca and Whitehaven Lowca Submarine Daily Mail Sept 1 1915 Painting Of Submarine Shelling Lowca Lowca Huns Dastardly Deeds In War 1915 Lowca Latest In Germ Hun Frightfulness […]

Women Land Army Photo Gallery

Women Land Army Digging Field

Women Land Army World War 2 Dig For Victory campaign included the Women’s Land Army Hullock Annie Land Army Girl 1943 Hullock Annie Land Army Girl With Dog 1943 Land Army Land Army 2 Land Army W Calf Land Army W Pig Women Land Army Armband Back Women Land Army Armband 3 Women Land Army […]

War Gallery Photo Gallery

Army At War Arnhem Mortar About To Fire

War Gallery World War 2 Army At War Arnhem Bren Gun In Trench Army At War Arnhem Field Gun In Action Army At War Arnhem Machine Gun In Action Army At War Arnhem Model Of Gliders In Carlisle Castle Display Army At War Arnhem Mortar About To Fire Army At War Arnhem Mortar In Action […]