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World War Two source pack
Original Document Source Pack
This source pack is suitable for all schools to use to explore WW2 in Surrey.
The pack contains digital copies of original documents from the Surrey History Centre which
holds Surrey’s archive.
The pack includes:
- Detailed teacher notes on the war in Surrey
- Cross curricular teaching activities and suggestions
- War effort in WW2
- Women’s Voluntary Service
- Evacuation
- Battle of Britain
- Rationing
- Dig for Victory
- Accounts from children in WW2
- End of the War
The pack includes detailed teaching ideas for cross curricular links including:
- History – local and national
- Geography
- Art and design
- Citizenship
- Maths
- English and creative writing
- Planning and organisational skills
Cost: £35 colour copies of the sources.
If you would like to order the pack in order to explore WW2 in Surrey please contact Kate Jenner,
Heritage Learning and Communities Officer 01483 518737 or at [email protected]
Surrey Heritage also offer a range of learning opportunities including local history source packs.
For more information go to www.surreycc.gov.uk/heritagelearning or contact Kate Jenner on
the details above.
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[email protected]
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List of Sources
Helping the war effort Volunteers
1. Letter by Marion Lindsay informing the Women’s Voluntary
Service of the new Dorking branch
24th April 1939
5380/2/1(1)
2. Poster
Typical poster issued to encourage people to join the war effort
Central Office of Information for H. M. Government
Evacuation
3. ‘Welcome to child guests: Evacuees arrive at Guildford’
Surrey Advertiser
Saturday 2 September 1939 page 7
4. School admission register for children evacuated to St John’s,
Woking
London County Council evacuated children throughout the early years of
the war. The register shows where children, aged between 3 to 8 years
were billeted. Most returned within the year
1939-1941
Ref CC687/13
5. Evacuation officer badge of Mrs Lindsay
Mrs Lindsay was the Chief evacuation officer for the rural area. The
badge was attached by safety pin.
Ref 5380/2/1(4)
6. Poster advertising the Dorking nursery for evacuees
This was the first voluntary nursery centre for evacuees to be created
under the new government scheme
Ref 5380/2/1
7. Photograph of children at the voluntary nursery centre in
Dorking
1939
Ref 5380/2/1
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Rationing
8. Weeks typical rationing
A typical weeks rations
9. Recipes
Some examples of war time recipes
‘Food Facts’ Surrey Advertiser. Saturday 4 April 1942, 3rd Edition, page 3
10. Thank you letter for clothes
1941- 42
Ref 5380/2/4/(5)
Air raids
11. Extracts from diary of Raymond Chudley, Guildford
As a teenager Raymond Chudley recorded every alert sounded in the
skies over Guildford. The entry for August 1940 shows the start of the
Battle of Britain.
1939-1943
Ref 5251/1
12. Letter from Edwina Burns age 16 describing air raid and air shelter
6th September 1940 in Mitcham
Ref 4077/1
13. Background details to letter supplied by Edwina in later life
1992
Ref 4077/2
End of the war
14. Transcript extract of letter from Mary Blythe describing Woking VE day
celebrations
11 May 1945
Ref Z/439/3
15. Photographs from victory party Queen’s Road, Knaphill
1945
Ref 6791/1/5/48 and 50
The pack includes detailed teaching ideas for cross curricular work
Contact Kate Jenner
[email protected]
01483 519737