Description
Object description
5 ms diaries kept by a young mother in Wellington, Somerset from 1941 - 1945 giving a detailed account of her daily activities which included work for the Women's Voluntary Service, duties at an ARP centre, employment at a Wellington factory checking glass ampoules for flaws, and the tending of an allotment and assorted livestock with useful references to family life, civilian conditions, rationing, the welfare of evacuees, air raids, American soldiers (one of whom was billeted in her home), and to her equivocal attitude to the war, as well as good descriptions of Plymouth and Exeter where she served with a WVS canteen after they had been blitzed (May 1941 and May 1942), bomb damage in London, which she visited in January 1942 and, again with the WVS, during the V1 attacks (June - July 1944), and Wellington's celebrations of VE and VJ Days.
Content description
5 ms diaries kept by a young mother in Wellington, Somerset from 1941 - 1945 giving a detailed account of her daily activities which included work for the Women's Voluntary Service, duties at an ARP centre, employment at a Wellington factory checking glass ampoules for flaws, and the tending of an allotment and assorted livestock with useful references to family life, civilian conditions, rationing, the welfare of evacuees, air raids, American soldiers (one of whom was billeted in her home), and to her equivocal attitude to the war, as well as good descriptions of Plymouth and Exeter where she served with a WVS canteen after they had been blitzed (May 1941 and May 1942), bomb damage in London, which she visited in January 1942 and, again with the WVS, during the V1 attacks (June - July 1944), and Wellington's celebrations of VE and VJ Days.
History note
Cataloguer AC
History note
Catalogue date 1991-09