Roger Atkinson - Blackout, Austerity and Pride
Blackout, Austerity and Pride – Life in the 1940s is a book written primarily from actual experience. It tells how an alert and intelligent boy, effectively orphaned at the age of 13, sets out to gain a foothold in life. Aided by some resourceful women, he unites a thirst for knowledge with a growing passion for places and buses and a strong sense of duty. http://www.memoir1940s.org.uk/
Blackout, Austerity and Pride – Life in the 1940s is a book written primarily from actual experience. It tells how an alert and intelligent boy, effectively orphaned at the age of 13, sets out to gain a foothold in life. Aided by some resourceful women, he unites a thirst for knowledge with a growing passion for places and buses and a strong sense of duty.
http://www.memoir1940s.org.uk/
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8 <strong>Blackout</strong>, <strong>Austerity</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Pride</strong> – Life in the 1940s<br />
3 – Early history 1939 – 1945 71<br />
Attitudes to the War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73<br />
The coming of war, evacuation <strong>and</strong> air raids . . . . . . . 76<br />
Shelf, Halifax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92<br />
Liberties bestowed; resourcefulness expected . . . . . . 95<br />
Adult education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102<br />
Wards of Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105<br />
At school in Dunnow Hall, 1941– 2 . . . . . . . . . . . .107<br />
Blackpool 1942 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119<br />
4 – At school in Letchworth 123<br />
St Christopher School 1942–1945 . . . . . . . . . . . . 125<br />
Electoral considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .132<br />
Sex <strong>and</strong> teenagers – in the 1940s . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137<br />
Drama in wartime; then the lights go on again . . . . . 143<br />
Omar Khayyam – 1945 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147<br />
5 – Ten eventful weeks 153<br />
The national scene – winter 1946/7 . . . . . . . . . . . 155<br />
Decision time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158<br />
Edinburgh, November – December 1946 . . . . . . . . . 160<br />
German prisoner-of-war camps . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165<br />
The ‘EASTERN PRINCE’ – December 1946 . . . . . . 167<br />
Courts-Martial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169<br />
Christmas 1946 – a visit by Klaus Fuchs recounted<br />
to me . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .172
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