Jambusters (48 page)

sugar

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rationing
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Sulgrave WI
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Sumner, Marjorie
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Sumner, Peggy
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Surrey County Federation
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surveys

education
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evacuation
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housing
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water and sewerage
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Suttons
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Synge, Mrs
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talks and demonstrations
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Taplow WI
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Tarporley WI
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teenage members
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Tennant, Nancy
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Tetlow, Ann
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Thompson, Mrs
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Thornthwaite-cum-Braithwaite WI
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Thornton Curtis WI
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Thornton Hough WI
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thrift crafts
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Tomkinson, Miss
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Toosey, Alex
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Toosey, Major Philip
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Toosey, Ruth
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Totteridge WI
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Townswomen’s Guild
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toy-making
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transport
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alternative transport forms
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bus services
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travelling to meetings
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petrol rationing

Trefnant WI
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Tuke, Mrs
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Tunbridge Wells WI
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Turner, Mrs
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United Irishwomen
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United States
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Urchfont WI
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utility clothing
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V-bombs
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Van Praet, Mrs
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Vaughan Williams, Ralph
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VE Day
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vegetable and fruit growing
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allotments
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charitable use of profits
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compost
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deserted gardens
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Dig for Victory campaign
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farms
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farmyard manure
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fertiliser supplies
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produce storage
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radio gardening programmes
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sale of produce
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seed distribution
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food preservation; markets (WI)

Veitch, Miss
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Vernon, Miss
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Voluntary County Organisers (VCOs)
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Walker, Miss
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Wallisdown WI
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Walshe, Mrs
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War Agriculture Committee
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war socialism
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war widows
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Ward, Dorcas
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Ward, Miriam
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Warship Week
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Warton WI
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Warwickshire County Federation
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Washington Station WI
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water and sewerage survey
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Watt, Margaret Rose (‘Madge’)
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welcome clubs for American troops
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Welford WI
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Wellington, Duke of
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wellington boots
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Welsh Frankton WI
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West Wycombe WI
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Westbourne WI
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Whitchurch
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Wigtoft WI
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Wilkinson, Mrs
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Willaston WI
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Williams, Dr Ulysses
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Wilnecote WI
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Wilson, Mrs
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Winfrith Newburgh
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Wings for Victory
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Winter, Mrs
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Withering, Dr William
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Wivelsfield WI
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Women’s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF)
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women’s conscription
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Women’s Institute (WI)

democratic ethos
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first British WI
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history of
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independence
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National Federation of Women’s Institutes
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non-sectarian, non-political character
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organisational reach
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pacifist stand
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qualifying villages
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role
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wartime achievements
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Women’s Land Army
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Women’s Liberal Federation
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Women’s Voluntary Service
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Woodmansterne WI
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Woods, Katharine
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Woods, Mrs (Headington WI)
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Woodstock WI
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Woolton, Lord
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Woolton Pie
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Wootton Bridge WI
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Wright, Gertrude
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Wright, Margaret
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X-ray units, mobile
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Young, Elsie
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Zeppelin raids
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Zweiniger-Bargielowska, Ina
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List of Illustrations

1. Lady Denman, NFWI Chairman 1917–1946, was said to be worth ten men on a committee

2. Members of the NFWI Executive Committee 1937 with Lady Denman seated in the centre

3. Grace Hadow was Lady Denman’s Vice Chairman from 1918–1940. She was an academic from Oxford, an outstanding public speaker and a fearless mountaineer

4. Dame Frances Farrer, NFWI General Secretary 1929–1959, known for ringing ministers before breakfast

5. Edith Jones and her nephew Leonard, c. 1943

6. Edith Jones with her husband Jack and her great-niece, Chris Downes

7. Clara Milburn, prolific wartime diarist and member of Balsall Common WI

8. Edith Jones’s diary entries for the last three days of the Second World War

9. Thousands of tons of fruit were boiled in WI preservation centres

10. Six canning vans were donated to the WI by the American Federation of Business and Professional Women

11. Peggy and Marjorie Sumner. Peggy (left) joined Dunham Massey WI in 1938 and was still a member in 2012

12. Ruth Toosey was the secretary of Barrow WI during the war

13. Sybil Norcott joined her local WI at the age of 12. She says ‘the WI is a way of life’

14. Dr Gwen Bark was a GP and encouraged young mothers to join their WIs to have a voice on matters concerning their children

15. Betty Sims, mother of Ann Tetlow, was an active member of Bradfield WI for over 40 years

16. Miriam Ward (right), with Aunt Phil, was a founder member of Bradfield WI and secretary during the war

17. Ann Tetlow (left) and Dorcas Ward’s childhoods were shaped by the war and their mothers’ involvement with the WI

18. Pies on sale at Toft in Cheshire as part of the meals in rural areas scheme

19. WI markets such as Laleham, in Middlesex, sold surplus fruit and vegetables during the war

20. Weighing vegetables at Muskham

21. Queen Elizabeth at the WI canning centre at Reading in August 1941. She was a member of SandringhamWI with Queen Mary, who was president, and Princess Elizabeth, who joined in 1943

22. A WI ambulance being handed over by Lady Denman outside the London HQ of the NFWI

23. Mrs Roosevelt on her visit to Barham WI in Kent, October 1942

24. Lord Woolton, Minister of Food, visiting a WI, June 1941

25. Mrs Milburn as Britannia in her WI pageant in 1941. That morning she had heard that her nephew had been badly injured and his wife killed in the Blitz

26. Amongst many other activities the WI collected herbs for medicinal purposes

27. Community Singing at Flamstead WI in Hertfordshire during the war

28. The WI made potato baskets for the Ministry of Agriculture

1. Lady Denman, NFWI Chairman 1917–1946, was said to be worth ten men on a committee