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Stainforth
2001
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MinersAdvice
BBC's People's
War
The LDV
The
Local Defence Volunteers
V.E.
Day
Celebrating
the end of WW2
Hatfield Main
Colliery
90
years of mining history
Hatfield
Colliery 1939
The
Hatfield cage crash
Haggs Wood
The
Haggs Wood estate
Interviewees
Brief
details of those who gave
up their time to take part in
this project.
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Topics for this are include:
The War Years - POWs on the canal etc.
Home Guard in Stainforth
Growing up during the war - Wartime schooldays
Was Stainforth in the 1940's a classless society?
i.e. Did the Bus Owners/Business people mix with
the workers?
Where did people go on their Holidays?
What were the Club Trips like?
V.E. Day
Why did Stainforth appear to be a happier place
in the 1930's/1940's, or is it an illusion?
Should Stainforth return to the old days or move
with the times?
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The LDV
V.E. Day Celebrations
The Haggs Wood estate
Val
Weir was under 3 years old when the war broke out. Before
the war reached its end, the Weirs' moved to Stanley Gardens.
Here Val recalls what little he can remember of Stainforth
during the war.
A child during
the war
Jeff
Sanderson was born at the end of the war. In 1948 he
went to live with his grandfather on the Haggs
Wood estate. Here he describes the area at that time:
Haggs
Wood Shanty Town
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