World War Two Loan Box Contents

Books

1. Dorking In Wartime, by David Knight (paperback)
2. Thrifty Tips from the War Years, by Janice Anderson (hardcover, ISBN 978-0-7088-6528-6)
3. Life on the Home Front, Reader’s Digest (hardcover, ISBN 0-276-42120-5)
4. Pictorial History of Our Times 1945, the Daily Mail (magazine format)

 Replica Artefacts

1. Empty Tin of Humbugs
2. Children’s Gas Mask
3. Warden’s Gas Rattle
4. 2 Blank evacuee labels
5. ARP armband
6. 2 x Ladies’ overalls
7. Headscarf (head covering)

Original Artefacts

1. Illustrated magazine, January 6, 1940
2. The Battle of Britain August – October 1940 (published by HMSO, London)

The following original artefacts items are accompanied by A4 colour photos and information

1. ARP whistle
2. Ration Book
3. Identity Card
4. Clothing Ration Book
5. Cigarette Tin
6. 8 ‘old money’ coins:  1923 farthing, 1929 farthing, 1936 halfpenny, 1918 penny, 1921 penny, 1935 thruppence, 1936 sixpence and 1931 shilling
7. Raid Spotters’ notebook
8. National Dried Milk Tin
9. Keepsake box (tin) containing:  1 piece chalk, 1 small wooden top, 2 glass marbles,  1 marble (clay?), 1black CD button and 1 metal button, 1 label (The Buffs), 2  coins (a 1925 farthing & a 1916 3 pence), 1 mother of pearl cross.

The 7 items in italics are stored in their own box for extra protection.

Imperial War Museum Activity Pack, Daily Life In A Wartime House

• Daily Life in a Wartime House Contents, Teacher’s Notes (2 sheets),  Chronology, Glossary, Resources
• 6 x colour photographs of the house plus floor plan
• Worksheets on 5 members of the Allpress family and Family Tree
• Supplementary Wartime Material (A-I)
• Daily Life in a Wartime House cassette tape

Wartime Dorking Photo Pack

1 Finding Evidence Sheet

17 photos of Dorking during the war years:

• Dorking High Street with Angle Irons, 1940
• Home Guard Tank
• Wings for Victory Parade, Dorking High Street, 1943
• Wings for Victory Parade, Dorking High Street, 1943
• Dorking Home Guard
• Dorking Home Guard Practice Manoeuvres on the Nower
• Dorking Fire Brigade on practice at Dorking hospital
• Bomb damage and crater at Rose Hill, 1940
• Bomb damage at Rose Hill, 1940
• Navigator and Squadron Leader who were crew of the Mosquito
• Inspecting the wreckage from the enemy aircraft in Wescott, 1944
• German pilot who survived the crash
• Soldier and car in front of Air raid shelter
• Dorking Playgroup
• Dorking Playgroup
• 2 children from Dorking Playgroup
• VE Day Fancy Dress Parade, Dorking High Street, 8 May 1945

Poster

‘Look Out in the Black-out’ poster

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