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BBC - Primary History - World War 2 - Daily life - 1 views

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  Here it explains why people had to write letters to their families.
  
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Not every home had a phone (and there were no mobile phones). Pay-phones in red 'telephone boxes' did not always work after air raids, because of bombs. To keep in touch, people wrote letters. Evacuees wrote postcards and letters home. Men and women in the Forces wrote home too. The sight of a messenger hurrying to a door with a telegram made people feel anxious. Telegrams often brought sad news - that someone had been killed in an air raid or in a bat
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Friends and Neighbours With many parents away or at work, children were often left to look after themselves. They played in fields or in the street. Street games were safer than they would be today, because there were so few cars. Children helped clear up after air raids. They ran errands to the 'corner shop'. Older children looked after younger ones. Often neighbours and grandparents helped too. Many families were 'bombed out' (their homes were damaged by bombs). When this happened, neighbours offered food and beds, and lent clothes or furniture.
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A wartime kitchen. This lady's name was Mrs Haslet and she lived in London. She was photographed cooking a meal on her gas cooker.
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This photo shows how blackout curtains fitted behind ordinary curtains. The girl in this 1943 photo was Doreen Buckner, then aged 7.
- alex llerena on 10 Feb 14
  
  here a girl is showing that behind her normal curtains there is a black curtain to protect her...
  
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On 10 October 1940, Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth II) spoke on the radio to children in the Commonwealth. Beside her is her
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On 10 October 1940, Princess Elizabeth (now Queen Elizabeth II) spoke on the radio to children in the Commonwealth. Beside her is her
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h II) spoke on the radio to children in the Commonwealth. Beside her is her
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eth (now Queen Elizabeth II) spoke on the radio to children in the Co
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cleo patra on 03 Feb 14

friends, and neighbours,

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AGomez 1000 on 10 Feb 14

a description of how they wrote the letters and also the description of The wartime kitchen

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Jose Armando Zabaneh Erazo on 10 Feb 14

the wartime kitchen

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wendy wanda on 10 Feb 14

This picture told people what to do if there was an air raid.

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Photo of Coventry, after the air raid of 14 November 1940. People walk through the ruins of their city.

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BBC - Primary History - World War 2 - Daily Life - 0 views

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BBC - Primary History - World War 2 - Air raids - the Blitz - 0 views

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Keeping watch. A man stands on a cliff top, with binoculars to 'observe' or look out for enemy aircraft and ships.
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- kevana mcgough on 10 Feb 14
  
  This man is looking out for the enemy
  
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BBC - Primary History - World War 2 - Wartime homes - 0 views

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Homes in the 1940s Many children in the 1940s lived in small houses or flats. In towns, many people lived in small terraced houses. There were blocks of flats too, though not as tall as the 'tower blocks' built after the war. A typical family house had a sitting room and kitchen, with two or three bedrooms upstairs. Not all houses had bathrooms or indoor toilets. Many houses had windows stuck over with paper tape. In an air raid, the blast-force of a bomb exploding could shatter windows along a street. Tape across the windows stopped the glass shattering into thousands of pieces, and causing injuries.
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