These were the times my mother and father went through! I'm glad they met and had me in 1952, my sister in 1954 and brother in 1956. Watching these pictures brings me more admiration for my parents! They brought the family up on just about nothing! We were looked after very well, disciplined and honest. I thank them for that! We all did well in our lives! I miss them so much!
I was born in the Blitz dad was in the army mother had a 4 year old boy as well, I believe that’s what turned her into an alcoholic we were evacuated to a big farmhouse in Wales when I was 2, can’t remember it, when 1946 came dad came into my bedroom and said your mother has left and I don’t want her name mention again with that no hugs he just walked out, I was 5and half years old, he married the widow who had the farm she did not like me or my brother,got him in the army and dad put me on a train at 15 and told me to get of at Truro where a man would be waiting I had no talks about what a girl would go through, the man met me and asked if I was Brenda I said yes he sat down in shock because I looked so young, went in his car to the ferry to St Mawes Cornwall his wife was shocked they had no kids but ran a small hotel, three years they we’re lovely at 18 they advised me to train as a nurse, which I did I’m 84 now became a R nurse at 21 they were so proud of me, never saw my father or wife since I left,I became a nursing sister for 45 yrs,married had two children boy and girl, my husband died this January and my daughter in July 2024, this as brought al the memories back, thank you for bringing 1940 to you tube 👵🇬🇧
MANY CHILDREN DIDN'T WANT TO RETURN HOME TO THEIR PARENTS, ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY'S SPENT THEIR TIME WITH DECENT MATURE COUPLES IN NICE COUNTRY HOUSES. IT MUST HAVE BEEN HELL FOR ALL INVOLVED.
Surely you do realize that this is a propaganda piece. For example all of those smiling children leaving their parents, my father told me that it was the only time he ever cried in the war when the children, including my elder brother and sister, had to leave. I am not saying the British were not very brave and sacrificed a great deal, but the images here portrayed are for a certain purpose. A purpose that anyone who knows about modern warfare knows was very necessary.
@@dpagain2167 I'M SURE HE DOES. UNLESS IT'S THE FIRST TIME HE'S SEEN A FILM OF THIS AGE, WHICH IS OFTEN PARODIED IN MODERN TIMES. BUT THAT WAS HOW NEWSREELS WERE EXPRESSED. BORN IN 1941, I FULLY APPRECIATE THE IMPORTANCE AND POWER OF ALL POSITIVE PROPAGANDA, IN WAR TIME. BESIDES, PEOPLE WERE FAR MORE RECEPTIVE TO IT BACK THEN, AND FAR LESS NEGATIVE, As some people are today.
I love this series! I had seen the 50s and 60s episodes before, but had been searching for the 40s one for ages. so glad to see them all on your channel!
I don't live in the past, or anything - but I enjoyed seeing the one about the 50's. Like those TV programmes, BACK IN TIME FOR TEA, (or whatever), where a family of TODAY dressed in period outfits, and watched quaint ancient televisions, etc., for entertainment!
it's not that bad although staying in the EU would have been a good idea. After the war there was not much prosperity. All kinds of labor unrest, things were falling apart and turbulent, careening from one crisis to another. Who are you kidding?
My mum was evacuated from Hammersmith childrens home to Somerset she love it, until after the war they went back to the children home she did not like nuns were in charged.
During ww2, my father was an American GI stationed briefly in England before being sent to France to fight. He said the British people would definitely have fought the Germans on the streets and in the fields with whatever weapons they had. The video of young Princeses Elizabeth and Margaret encouraging the little children touched my heart. May their Souls rest in peace. 🙏 🇺🇸
The late forties were a largely forgotten part of popular British history. The war period is covered, then historians jump to the fifties (usually concentrating on the introduction of rock and roll, then the sixties (focusing on swinging London). The immediate post war period is perhaps best summed up by mixed feelings of victory, a new start with a Labour government and the realisation that the country was effectively bankrupt, the poor would remain poor and nothing would change.
@@michellepeoplelikeyoumurde8373yes, SOME people had a rising standard of living, but there was a war to recover from, and most people had to still do washing by hand. It wasn't till the 60's that people DID get washing machines! And gas coal fires didn't come in till the 80's. I remember the times our REAL coal ran out, and we had to keep going out into the snow , to the coalshed! Cold times! Yes there WAS undoubted prigress, but it came in stages, decade by decade! What do you think?
I was born in April 1940, I remember clearly the bombs coming down, air-raid shelters, doodlebugs, fleets of bombers going overhead on their way to Germany. 1946 when bananas arrived in the shops my Mum gave me half a crown (two shillings and sixpence old money) and sent me to buy as many as I could, I came back with three bananas. I also well remember the winter of 1947, our inside toilet froze solid and so did our bathroom washbasin drain, there was frost on the inside of my bedroom windows. Things had to get better, and they did - and now look at Great Britain....
Princess Elizabeth was very game, in joining the army, and learning to drive - on a LORRY! And she could service them, too! You have had the opportunity of seeing it yourselves, in this film!
My mother lived near Lancaster Gate (London) 1943-45. She would talk about walking across Hyde Park during the blackout - knowing that it took a certain number of steps from one landmark to the next. A house in her group of row houses was bombed - there is still a gap there, with a park. A shilling in the slot would give her gas heat for a short time on cold days. Although food rationing was in effect, her diaries tell of really good meals in nearby restaurants (but customers had to be ready to rush to the basement if air raid sirens sounded).
We are a minority in our own capital city and the second largest Birmingham. I'm glad my life is nearly over because I don't recognise this country anymore.
BORN IN BRUM IN 1941, MY MOTHER SAID THERE WAS A AIR RAID CIREN ALERT, BUT THE PLANES PASSED OVERHEAD ,ONTO ANOTHER TOWN, WE LIVED NEAR A SPITFIRE FACTORY AT CASTLE BROMWHICH, I REMEMBER 3 OF THEM ROARING OVER HEAD, WHEN I WAS IN MY PUSHCHAIR IN THE GARDEN, ABOUT 1944.
Nigel, Yes. Princess Elizabeth ( later Q.E.ll) was a fine example to women who worked so hard while their men were away fighting in WWll.🇬🇧💥😢🦉🛩️ 🚢⭐💥💣😢🇺🇲
@rosemariemann1719 Sorry to disillusion you Rosemary - but when the Royal Family was downsized, in Thatcher's time , so not all of them could open Theatres, etc., your revered Queen did a deal with Thatcher - whereby taxpayers still had to pay the Royals the SAME. Only, all the money now went exclusively to the WINDSOR family, who coined it in. In return, THATCHER got a peerage from the Queen!
19:16: Without USA 🇺🇲help, I think we would have LOST WWll...💥😢 Didn't we have to repay lots of money for being saved ?🤔 Ironic that at 2024, our 2 countries ( among others), have the relentless influx of what many call , " Replacement Population " 😢👎🚢 It is such an insult to all the folk who suffered in WWll...😢🦉💥 My Father was nearly killed in The Battle of Britain : his plane 🛩️💥was riddled with bullet holes...😢 Mother was outside during the Blitz....😢 Her brother had his head blown off while in an army tank.😢💥 🇬🇧😢🦉😟💥😢🇬🇧
My Uncle was a D-Day Dodger too. I sang the entire song on a bus when I was three, my aunt told me years ago. Everyone clapped and I bowed. Now I'm going to listen to it on UA-cam. (CONTINUED) No, I couldn't have sung all that so I think I must have done a da de da da da da with the tune, but I do remember singing, "For we're the D-Day Dodgers, The boys from Tripoli," because I just sang it now and I remember that line to this day. And my grandfather had a gas mask in a cupboard upstairs. I used to play with that. And my Dad took apart my grandfather's bomb shelter and I was rocking back and forth on the filthy corrugated pieces with my brother. He then made that into a garden shed and it was there, always. A storage shed. An aunt visiting from London saw me playing outside and told me that I could have anything that I wanted from any of the shops on the street. She was shocked when I asked for a bunch of bananas. Off we went and I got 4 bananas in a brown paper bag. Heaven. I rushed home to show my mum. I gave one to my mum and one to my baby brother and I feasted on two bananas. Unheard of. Two. And that story went down in the family history; how all I wanted in the world was a bunch of bananas. I was 5.
Windrush. The truth is, as they say in this film, that they ''came to find work in the UK '' , as unemployment in Jamaca was very high at the time. . The gov asked Transport for London if they would be willing to train them to drive the busses, but many of them stayed on in the UK for better jobs and opportunities. It was we doing them a favour not the other way around as many have been lead to believe.
West Indians as they were known at the time, should be eternally grateful for their introduction into prosperity & out of the stone-age. They didn't build England -- England built them.
@@robsucher9419 No. It's true - facts are not racist. It was towns in the West Indies who begged London Transport to give their people jobs, because their unemployment was so bad they feared civil unrest. There was NO shortage of English workers employed by LT.
@@vincekerrigan8300show me a reliable source for that 'fact'. Until then, it's filed under racist claptrap. After all, it took a change in law to deal with the racism elsewhere in UK. Eg see Bristol Bus boycott of '63. So your claim is looking very, very shaky.
I wondered how Britain made all of the airplanes and ships, but I see that the Germans delivered a lot of iron in the wrecked airplanes that dropped into England.
I was born in September 1940 and only vaguely remember some things that went on, though I clearly remember rationing and sweets coming off ration, Mum was too hard up to buy many sweets so my brother sister and I had to share 2ozs of dolly mixtures. I was not impressed they were too sweet. I still hate the sound of single engine (presumably privately owned) aeroplanes flying overhead particularly when the pilot does 'clever' manoeuvrs
@35.55 ...prefab homes..."a sandwich consisting of 2 sheets of Asbestos cement and filled with wood wall"..i can imagine that being advertised in the 2020's..don't forget to smoke too as that increases the chance of Asbestosis to over 90% certainty..i guess people were tougher made back then
It was definitely a great service and great inderstey and selling it off and putting profit before the customer and the efficiency completely wrecked it
Railways weren't axed then Because cars weren't available to working class people When they were in the 1950s The railways lost out And more deaths on roads Occurred whole families Decimated!
To angloaust In the 1980's, I was a park keeper. In the borough of Epsom, and Ewell. I did wonder why there were NO park railings, in Epsom., yet there WERE in Ewell! Actually, it was because park railings were required to be SURRENDERED, to melt down fir BULLETS! But Ewell KEPT their park railings, by SURRENDERING their CARS to melt down! No wonder there weren't many cars after the war!
@@nygelmiller5293 Lots of railings and gates disappeared from houses for the war effort. Some people replaced them after the war but many didn’t, which is a shame because it’s the finishing touch to a house.
@@nygelmiller5293 Agents infiltrating factories, cutting power lines and such. Never any mention as though every citizen was a saint. Remember Isle of Man became a concentration camp for German British citizens.
As a veteran of South Africa's Bush War, I can attest that there are no true winners in war. In the 1940s, both Germany and Britain suffered immense losses, with neither emerging victorious. One often-overlooked tragedy was the abuse some children faced after being relocated to the countryside. Another uncomfortable fact is that Britain targeted civilians in Dresden before Germany retaliated in kind. However, those events are now part of history, and the focus has shifted. Today, Germany and Britain face a new potential adversary: Russia. Germany is already preparing for possible conflict with Russia by 2030.
![London 1945 in color, Post World War II [60fps,Remastered] w/sound design added](/img/n.gif)
These were the times my mother and father went through! I'm glad they met and had me in 1952, my sister in 1954 and brother in 1956. Watching these pictures brings me more admiration for my parents! They brought the family up on just about nothing! We were looked after very well, disciplined and honest. I thank them for that! We all did well in our lives! I miss them so much!
More gentle times, less snarling at one another. Thank you for posting!
That was brilliant. My parents went through all that. Let's hope NOTHING like that ever happens again here in England !
It’s happening now wth the Muslims. Can’t you see that ?
There's nothing better than sitting with a cup of tea and letting vintage melodies penetrate your soul.
I was born in the Blitz dad was in the army mother had a 4 year old boy as well, I believe that’s what turned her into an alcoholic we were evacuated to a big farmhouse in Wales when I was 2, can’t remember it, when 1946 came dad came into my bedroom and said your mother has left and I don’t want her name mention again with that no hugs he just walked out, I was 5and half years old, he married the widow who had the farm she did not like me or my brother,got him in the army and dad put me on a train at 15 and told me to get of at Truro where a man would be waiting I had no talks about what a girl would go through, the man met me and asked if I was Brenda I said yes he sat down in shock because I looked so young, went in his car to the ferry to St Mawes Cornwall his wife was shocked they had no kids but ran a small hotel, three years they we’re lovely at 18 they advised me to train as a nurse, which I did I’m 84 now became a R nurse at 21 they were so proud of me, never saw my father or wife since I left,I became a nursing sister for 45 yrs,married had two children boy and girl, my husband died this January and my daughter in July 2024, this as brought al the memories back, thank you for bringing 1940 to you tube 👵🇬🇧
Wow! What a life. So sorry you went through that as a child. Glad you came through it okay.
MANY CHILDREN DIDN'T WANT TO RETURN HOME TO THEIR PARENTS, ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY'S SPENT THEIR TIME WITH DECENT MATURE COUPLES IN NICE COUNTRY HOUSES. IT MUST HAVE BEEN HELL FOR ALL INVOLVED.
What's happened to our Britain? How I miss how we used to be, proud of our country.
Surely you do realize that this is a propaganda piece. For example all of those smiling children leaving their parents, my father told me that it was the only time he ever cried in the war when the children, including my elder brother and sister, had to leave.
I am not saying the British were not very brave and sacrificed a great deal, but the images here portrayed are for a certain purpose. A purpose that anyone who knows about modern warfare knows was very necessary.
To answer your question : we imported half the third world.
I used to be proud of the United States
@@dpagain2167 I'M SURE HE DOES. UNLESS IT'S THE FIRST TIME HE'S SEEN A FILM OF THIS AGE, WHICH IS OFTEN PARODIED IN MODERN TIMES. BUT THAT WAS HOW NEWSREELS WERE EXPRESSED. BORN IN 1941, I FULLY APPRECIATE THE IMPORTANCE AND POWER OF ALL POSITIVE PROPAGANDA, IN WAR TIME. BESIDES, PEOPLE WERE FAR MORE RECEPTIVE TO IT BACK THEN, AND FAR LESS NEGATIVE, As some people are today.
You took me back to when I was a kid. Thank you.
I love this series! I had seen the 50s and 60s episodes before, but had been searching for the 40s one for ages. so glad to see them all on your channel!
I don't live in the past, or anything - but I enjoyed seeing the one about the 50's. Like those TV programmes, BACK IN TIME FOR TEA, (or whatever), where a family of TODAY dressed in period outfits, and watched quaint ancient televisions, etc., for entertainment!
This was great, and the commercials were a fun touch. Thanks for uploading!
Of course, there was no broadcast advertising then
Wonderful Days, When England Was England.A Safe Happy Place .After The War.And Look At Us Now.
it's not that bad although staying in the EU would have been a good idea. After the war there was not much prosperity. All kinds of labor unrest, things were falling apart and turbulent, careening from one crisis to another. Who are you kidding?
My mum was evacuated from Hammersmith childrens home to Somerset she love it, until after the war they went back to the children home she did not like nuns were in charged.
During ww2, my father was an American GI stationed briefly in England before being sent to France to fight. He said the British people would definitely have fought the Germans on the streets and in the fields with whatever weapons they had. The video of young Princeses Elizabeth and Margaret encouraging the little children touched my heart. May their Souls rest in peace. 🙏 🇺🇸
Special generations on both sides of the pond. God bless our veterans.
I assume he survived?
Bragger
Will they fight the current invasion ?
Yea I have Ann of fenced his van coff
I thought Blair was bad bad news then we get our version of stalin
My brothers and I had Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy gasmasks during the war. We loved them!
The late forties were a largely forgotten part of popular British history. The war period is covered, then historians jump to the fifties (usually concentrating on the introduction of rock and roll, then the sixties (focusing on swinging London). The immediate post war period is perhaps best summed up by mixed feelings of victory, a new start with a Labour government and the realisation that the country was effectively bankrupt, the poor would remain poor and nothing would change.
The 1950s was a period of rising living standards never experienced before
@@michellepeoplelikeyoumurde8373yes, SOME people had a rising standard of living, but there was a war to recover from, and most people had to still do washing by hand. It wasn't till the 60's that people DID get washing machines!
And gas coal fires didn't come in till the 80's. I remember the times our REAL coal ran out, and we had to keep going out into the snow , to the coalshed! Cold times!
Yes there WAS undoubted prigress, but it came in stages, decade by decade! What do you think?
@@nygelmiller5293 We had gas fires in my Grandmothers London house in the 60s, plus a coal range
@bbgunn917 we also had a coal range, and gas fires!
Except that the rich are getting richer
When people pulled together, I was born 6 years after the war but as a youngster the spirit lived on.
Not forgetting Merseyside ( Liverpool/Wirral. ). We were heavily bombed and as a child, I spent many nights in the Anderson shelter in our garden.
I was born in April 1940, I remember clearly the bombs coming down, air-raid shelters, doodlebugs, fleets of bombers going overhead on their way to Germany. 1946 when bananas arrived in the shops my Mum gave me half a crown (two shillings and sixpence old money) and sent me to buy as many as I could, I came back with three bananas. I also well remember the winter of 1947, our inside toilet froze solid and so did our bathroom washbasin drain, there was frost on the inside of my bedroom windows. Things had to get better, and they did - and now look at Great Britain....
Princess Elizabeth was very game, in joining the army, and learning to drive - on a LORRY! And she could service them, too! You have had the opportunity of seeing it yourselves, in this film!
37:50 Britain didn't exactly "shed itself" of its empire. It was forced to relinquish it.
wonderful, thank you
My mother lived near Lancaster Gate (London) 1943-45. She would talk about walking across Hyde Park during the blackout - knowing that it took a certain number of steps from one landmark to the next. A house in her group of row houses was bombed - there is still a gap there, with a park. A shilling in the slot would give her gas heat for a short time on cold days. Although food rationing was in effect, her diaries tell of really good meals in nearby restaurants (but customers had to be ready to rush to the basement if air raid sirens sounded).
Bragger
@@AwesomeAngryBiker not nice
markfnnn. ignore them.
Love these series so interesting
Wonderful! Thank you.
It is so wonderful to only hear my own language!
We are a minority in our own capital city and the second largest Birmingham. I'm glad my life is nearly over because I don't recognise this country anymore.
BORN IN BRUM IN 1941, MY MOTHER SAID THERE WAS A AIR RAID CIREN ALERT, BUT THE PLANES PASSED OVERHEAD ,ONTO ANOTHER TOWN, WE LIVED NEAR A SPITFIRE FACTORY AT CASTLE BROMWHICH, I REMEMBER 3 OF THEM ROARING OVER HEAD, WHEN I WAS IN MY PUSHCHAIR IN THE GARDEN, ABOUT 1944.
Sadly an era I missed, being born in 1960. Interesting to see this. Good material.
The very special generation. God bless.
💜What a lovley Message from the two Princesses!💜🤍
It was a terrible time for all.We British were survivors.
My word. Our queen is an inspiration.
Nigel, Yes. Princess
Elizabeth ( later Q.E.ll)
was a fine example
to women who worked
so hard while their men
were away fighting in
WWll.🇬🇧💥😢🦉🛩️
🚢⭐💥💣😢🇺🇲
@rosemariemann1719
Sorry to disillusion you Rosemary - but when the Royal Family was downsized, in Thatcher's time , so not all of them could open Theatres, etc., your revered Queen did a deal with Thatcher - whereby taxpayers still had to pay the Royals the SAME. Only, all the money now went exclusively to the WINDSOR family, who coined it in.
In return, THATCHER got a peerage from the Queen!
My father was a goods guard on the railways during the war
He had to perform home guard duties as well !
Ok up to a point. But, the last part about end of sweet rationing is factually incorrect. It ended on 5th Feb 1953, not in the '40s.
yes you're right, my mother never stopped telling how she didn't taste sweets until she was 12
19:16:
Without USA 🇺🇲help,
I think we would
have LOST WWll...💥😢
Didn't we have to
repay lots of money
for being saved ?🤔
Ironic that at 2024,
our 2 countries
( among others),
have the relentless
influx of what many
call , " Replacement
Population " 😢👎🚢
It is such an insult to
all the folk who suffered
in WWll...😢🦉💥
My Father was nearly
killed in The Battle
of Britain : his plane
🛩️💥was riddled with
bullet holes...😢
Mother was outside
during the Blitz....😢
Her brother had his
head blown off while
in an army tank.😢💥
🇬🇧😢🦉😟💥😢🇬🇧
Bollocks.
My dad was a d day dodger according to my mum. He was busy fighting in Italy. Lol. 😂😂
Bragger
My Uncle was a D-Day Dodger too. I sang the entire song on a bus when I was three, my aunt told me years ago. Everyone clapped and I bowed. Now I'm going to listen to it on UA-cam. (CONTINUED) No, I couldn't have sung all that so I think I must have done a da de da da da da with the tune, but I do remember singing, "For we're the D-Day Dodgers, The boys from Tripoli," because I just sang it now and I remember that line to this day. And my grandfather had a gas mask in a cupboard upstairs. I used to play with that. And my Dad took apart my grandfather's bomb shelter and I was rocking back and forth on the filthy corrugated pieces with my brother. He then made that into a garden shed and it was there, always. A storage shed. An aunt visiting from London saw me playing outside and told me that I could have anything that I wanted from any of the shops on the street. She was shocked when I asked for a bunch of bananas. Off we went and I got 4 bananas in a brown paper bag. Heaven. I rushed home to show my mum. I gave one to my mum and one to my baby brother and I feasted on two bananas. Unheard of. Two. And that story went down in the family history; how all I wanted in the world was a bunch of bananas. I was 5.
Britain was happier in WW2 than now.
What a lovely black and White video.
Windrush. The truth is, as they say in this film, that they ''came to find work in the UK '' , as unemployment in Jamaca was very high at the time. . The gov asked Transport for London if they would be willing to train them to drive the busses, but many of them stayed on in the UK for better jobs and opportunities. It was we doing them a favour not the other way around as many have been lead to believe.
West Indians as they were known at the time, should be eternally grateful for their introduction into prosperity & out of the stone-age. They didn't build England -- England built them.
@@keithkhan174racist claptrap
@@robsucher9419 No. It's true - facts are not racist. It was towns in the West Indies who begged London Transport to give their people jobs, because their unemployment was so bad they feared civil unrest. There was NO shortage of English workers employed by LT.
@@vincekerrigan8300show me a reliable source for that 'fact'. Until then, it's filed under racist claptrap. After all, it took a change in law to deal with the racism elsewhere in UK. Eg see Bristol Bus boycott of '63.
So your claim is looking very, very shaky.
Very interesting
great...tnx
They were better days than life under Starmer
🇬🇧 whilst I'm not a fan of Starmer, I prefer being alive today.
Don't be stupid.
Ps. I'm confused by your reply
@@richardjones8699
How ridiculous!!
Why is it people think every forum needs endless political comments
This generation in uk today are a joke compared to the toughness of those in ww2.. same is true of usa
The babies inside the gasmask contraptions, look so cute!
I wondered how Britain made all of the airplanes and ships, but I see that the Germans delivered a lot of iron in the wrecked airplanes that dropped into England.
I was born in September 1940 and only vaguely remember some things that went on, though I clearly remember rationing and sweets coming off ration, Mum was too hard up to buy many sweets so my brother sister and I had to share 2ozs of dolly mixtures. I was not impressed they were too sweet. I still hate the sound of single engine (presumably privately owned) aeroplanes flying overhead particularly when the pilot does 'clever' manoeuvrs
@35.55 ...prefab homes..."a sandwich consisting of 2 sheets of Asbestos cement and filled with wood wall"..i can imagine that being advertised in the 2020's..don't forget to smoke too as that increases the chance of Asbestosis to over 90% certainty..i guess people were tougher made back then
It was definitely a great service and great inderstey and selling it off and putting profit before the customer and the efficiency completely wrecked it
Britain in the 1940s 14.9.24 decent beer would be in order....and cake.
That’s some good stuff they’re smokin.
25:55 This is what brought the NHS to Britain.
Bet, after the war, people didn't continue to wear masks, unlike some sad people today!
Man, did you say a maskfull
Well, there was no longer a threat of being gassed, was there...
@@eshaibraheem4218there wasn't, just like there's no longer the dire threat of an unnamed virus today
Railways weren't axed then
Because cars weren't available to working class people
When they were in the 1950s
The railways lost out
And more deaths on roads
Occurred whole families
Decimated!
Is that a poem?
@@annoyingbstard9407you're cheeky, but funny!
To angloaust
In the 1980's, I was a park keeper.
In the borough of Epsom, and Ewell.
I did wonder why there were NO park railings, in Epsom., yet there WERE in Ewell!
Actually, it was because park railings were required to be SURRENDERED, to melt down fir BULLETS!
But Ewell KEPT their park railings, by SURRENDERING their CARS to melt down!
No wonder there weren't many cars after the war!
@@nygelmiller5293
Lots of railings and gates disappeared from houses for the war effort. Some people replaced them after the war but many didn’t, which is a shame because it’s the finishing touch to a house.
1:54 of course the hundreds of ethnics sent by different trains..BBC told me that.
I wonder how much sabotage went on but not reported.
To flybobbie.
Please explain what sabotage you mean!
@@nygelmiller5293 Agents infiltrating factories, cutting power lines and such. Never any mention as though every citizen was a saint. Remember Isle of Man became a concentration camp for German British citizens.
As a veteran of South Africa's Bush War, I can attest that there are no true winners in war. In the 1940s, both Germany and Britain suffered immense losses, with neither emerging victorious. One often-overlooked tragedy was the abuse some children faced after being relocated to the countryside. Another uncomfortable fact is that Britain targeted civilians in Dresden before Germany retaliated in kind. However, those events are now part of history, and the focus has shifted. Today, Germany and Britain face a new potential adversary: Russia. Germany is already preparing for possible conflict with Russia by 2030.
Stop bragging
NATO are idiots to try to stir up a war with Russia.
I would rather have through ww11 than this in 2224, bring back the 1900's
2224? Whatsoever you know that we don't 🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅🤣😅
To Wench64
I don't think if you lived through WW2, you WOULD have thought it was so okay, because no-one knew that this country WOULD win the war!
Stop bragging about yourselves, this video IS NOT ABOUT YOU