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Wolverhampton and World War II Further Source The following items are available for consultation in our public search room: Topic
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General Photograph collection - armed forces, VE day celebrations, war memorials etc A History of Wolverhampton, C Upton, 1998 (L9UPT) A Century of Wolverhampton, N Williams, 1999 (L9WIL) The Black Country at War, A Douglas, 1984 (WM9) Express and Star Wolverhampton Chronicle School log books 1939 - 1945 (D-EDS) Memories of August 1940 - Elston Hall School colour film (VT6) Local History Sourcebook 8: Staffordshire in Wartime 1939 - 1945, Staffordshire County Council, 1976 (S9) Wolverhampton Central Committee for War Savings/National Savings Committee minutes 1916 - 1940 (DX-93/1) Papers re. recovery of disused tram track in Tividale Road to help in the war effort, 1943 (CC-STAFFS/A/14) Correspondence
and papers concerning the Royal Air Force Pilots & Crews Fund,
and the Red Cross Agriculture Fund 1940 - 1947 Valuation and inventory books for requisitioned property 1940 - 1943 (D-NAJ/D/1/26) Circular
re. the 'position of schools in the event of invasion', 1942 Wolverhampton During the War, H Bodfish, Blackcountryman, Autumn 1989 and Winter 1990 (SO52) World War II ephemera and other papers 1901 - 1977 (DX-190) Questionnaires completed by individuals who lived through World War II for a project by pupils from Highfields School, 1985 (DX-694/1-2) D-Day: how the men of the Midlands turned the tide, Express and Star, 3 May 1994 (S94p) Loaded Hour: A history of the Express and Star, P Rhodes,1991 (L07) Aviation, A Brew 1993 (S62913) WWII Air Crash Site: Wolverhampton, S King, 1997 (L62913p) Wolverhampton Production Exchange list of members, rules and bylaws, 1944 (L6sr) Bilston Wesleyan Methodist Circuit papers re. removal of railings for World War II war effort 1941 - 1943 (MC-BW/12/9) Local History Sourcebook 6: Home Guard, Staffordshire County Council, 1976 (S355) The Record of the 24th Staffs. (Tettenhall) Battalion Home Guard 1940 - 1945, 1946 (S355) Dad's Army Days in Wolverhampton, Black Country Bugle, August 1994 (S07sr) South Staffordshire Home Guard: 26th Battalion, Willenhall and Wednesfield - list of officers and speech (S355p) Men and Women Fighting for Britain Yanks, The GI's in the West Midlands 1944-1945, M Powis, 1994 (S355) 59th Division: its war story, P Knight, 1954 (S355) Photographs of members of George Street Methodist Church serving in the forces (M-GS/105) Black Country Lives: reflections of the twentieth century, 2000 (L9292sr) Black Country Bugle, Nov 2001 (L07sr) Registers of St Peter's Church Sunday School 1931 - 1934 with additions relating to boys wartime service (DX-149/11) Your Men in Battle: the story of the South Staffordshire Regiment 1939 - 1945, 1945 (S355) Seventh South Staffordshire Regiment, Major A H Ashcroft (ed.), 1919 (S355) Territorial & Auxiliary Forces of Staffordshire Official Handbook (S355) History of the South Staffordshire Regiment, WL Vale, 1949 (S355) North Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's) (The 64th/98th Regiment of Foot), H Cook, 1970 (S355) Staffordshire Yeomanry (QORR) in the First and Second World Wars, PK Kemp, 1950 (S355) One
of Our Aircraft is Missing, P Shepherd, 1994 (L92SMIp) Bushbury Cemetery - register of burials in war graves (FM/60) Casualties with 'Wolverhampton' in the register listings, from the database of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. (includes casualties from the First and Second World Wars as well as civilian casualties). Arranged by the country and place of burial (L94) Civilian War Dead - Wolverhampton (from the database of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission) (L94) Overdue Memorial to Wolverhampton's forgotten war women, Black Country Bugle, November 2001 (S07sr) Wolverhampton Municipal Grammar School roll of honour 1939 - 1945 (L373) Programme for the unveiling of the War Memorial 1939 - 1945 at W Butler & Co Ltd (L6633p) Bilston War Memorials (LB9p) Bilston District Provident Society Roll of honour of men serving and killed during World War Two in reports 1941-1945 (D-SO-44/2/2/4) Bilston Roll of Honour 1939 - 1957 (DX-487) Villiers: How Villiers Worked For Victory, H Small, 1946 (L6292) The First 50 years at Fordhouses, Lucas Aerospace Ltd, 1990 (L621) The Family Goes To War ,Guy Motors Ltd 1946 (L6292) The Goodyear Story, M O'Reilly, 1983 (L678) Boulton & Paul Aircraft, G Kinsey, 1992 (L62913) Boulton Paul Aircraft, A Brew, 2001 (L62913) Business records (i.e. Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Company) (DB) Industrial War Record: a review of the activities of Stewarts and Lloyds Ltd 1939 - 1945 1956 (LB672sr) John Thompsons at War, H Parsons, Blackcountryman, Winter 1971 and Autumn 1989 (S052) War at HomeWolverhampton Council - Air Raid Precautions Committee minutes 1937 - 1942 (CMB-WOL-C-ARP) Wolverhampton
Council - Civil Defence Committee minutes Wolverhampton
Council - Air Raid Precautions Constructional Advisory Committee
signed minutes 1939 - 1944 Wolverhampton
Borough Council registers of bomb damage Contract for the rebuilding of five houses destroyed by enemy action at St Giles Crescent, Wolverhampton Aug 1945 (D-LEG/1945/4-53) Wolverhampton
Council Housing Committee minutes 1942 (includes references to damage
caused by an air raid, 31 Jul) How Wolverhampton Was Missed: The West Midland Airfields, A Dunphy, 1978 (WM629) Tettenhall ARP Commandant's notes and incident book 1940 - 1941 (C-UD-TET/J42) File relating to provisions for persons made homeless by enemy action 1941 - 1942 (C-UD-TET/27) File relating to evacuation 1941 - 1942 (C-UD-TET/J47) Papers relating to civil and aerodrome defence 1942 (C-UD-TET/24) Wednesfield Urban District Council Air Raid Precautions Committee minutes 1938 - 1951 (D-WED) German Bombing maps 1939 (map cabinet B9) Scrapbook recording World War II air raids [for the Bilston area?] 1939 - 1943 (DX-522) Wednesfield Urban District Council - war damage register 1942 (D-WED/16/5) RTB handbills "Come on, join your works civil defence now" and "Civil Defence within Industry" 1939 - 1945 (DX-634/74) Civil Defence Papers (DX-100) Operational
Handbook, scheme for co-ordination of rest centre in Papers re. purchase of Pennhurst, Bolton Road, Wednesfield, as Air Raid Precaution Centre and subsequent sale to Wednesfield Urban District Council 1939 - 1965 (CC-STAFFS/E/2) Bilston
Borough Council Register of ?war workers 1941 Bilston Borough Council Air Raid Precautions Committee and Reconstruction Committee minutes 1939 - 1940s (CMB-BIL/1) Coseley Urban District Council Air Raid Precautions Committee and Reconstruction Committee minutes 1939 - 1940s (D-CLY/1) Sedgley
Urban District Council Air Raid Precautions and Post War Planning
and Reconstruction Committee minutes 1945 - onwards 'What to do after an air-raid', Wolverhampton Borough Council, 1942 (DX-207/2) Wolverhampton Town Clerk's circulars re. enlistment of council officers, emergency procedures etc 1940 - 1945 (D-LIB) Wolverhampton Guardian Committee for Child Refugees minutes 1939 - 1941 (DX-97) Papers of ABCD Fire Watchers Group 1941 - 1945 (DX-191/10-14) Wolverhampton Auxiliary Fire Service booklets 1939-45 (DX-440) Group IV Control, team leaders and reunion association meeting minutes 1952 - 1954 (DX-100) Papers re. letting of land at Newbolds Estate Junior School for wartime emergency allotments 1941 - 1942 (CC-STAFFS/K/15) Papers of Finchfield Gardens Wartime First Aid Group 1941 - 1945 (DX-191) Example of Identity cards 1943 (DX-126) Leaflet re prisoners of war 1941 (DX-207) Ration book [1940s] (DX-259) Plan
of Wednesfield TI Group Joint ARP scheme 1943 Civil Defence Posts - list of casualty services, rescue services, etc., c. 1940 (L94p) Wolverhampton Libraries: file re. fire watching 1942 - 1944 (D-LIB) Plan of Central Library showing proposed use by other council departments in the event of the Town hall being bombed, 1941 (D-LIB) PeaceWolverhampton
Council General Purposes Committee Minutes VE Day Remembered, Black Country Bugle, May 1995 (S07sr) Orders of service for end of World War II 1945 (D-EDS-155/5/1) Council minutes of Bilston Borough Council, Tettenhall, Wednesfield, Coseley, Sedgley Urban District Councils and Wolverhampton Borough Council Reconstructing Wolverhampton: the war-time reconstruction plan 'Wolverhampton of the Future', PJ Larkham, 2000 (L71p) Sedgley
Urban District Council Air Raid Precautions and Post War Planning
and Reconstruction Committee minutes 1945 - onwards Wolverhampton
Council Reconstruction Committee Minutes Post War housing - Wolverhampton Council Contracts (D-LEG) Post War Housing - Wolverhampton Council Housing Committee minutes (CMB-WOL-C-HOU) Bilston Borough Council minutes (CMB-BIL) Tettenhall Urban District Council minutes (C-UD-TET) Wednesfield Urban District Council minutes (C-UD-WED) Coseley Urban District Council agendas etc (D-CLY) The Proud Story of the Prefab, Warwickshire and Worcestershire Life, April 1986 (L3391p) © Copyright. Wolverhampton City Council, 2002
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