Author: SPRING PARK RESIDENTS' ASSOCIATION.
Title: War-time Memoirs of Shirley Residents 1939 to 1945.
Description: Croydon: Ptarmigan Press, nd.(c.2005). Includes "Striking accounts of life as an evacuee, whether in a bit of rural Sussex (where the harnessing of ferrets to catch rabbits and the trapping of rates to feed the hungry ferrets takes some beating) or industrial Yorkshire..And there is a telling contribution about the adult work taken on be teenage Scouts in tending the ill and wounded in Croydon.". Pp.101, many black & white photographs and illustrations throughout, signed compliments slip from Peter Newby (one of the contributors) loosely enclosed. Paperback. VG.

Keywords: Wartime Memoirs Memories Shirley Croydon Local History World War II England Bombing Ferrets 46378 Local History


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