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Horncastle Virtual VE Day Exhibition

Horncastle Virtual VE Day Exhibition

1945-2020 | Remembering VE Day & the Town in Wartime

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    • Horncastle Rejoices on VE Day
    • Soldiers in Town
    • Horncastle soldiers around the world
      • Joining Up
      • Norway – B Company into Battle
    • Air Raids and the Aspidistra
    • Home Front Horncastle
      • Defence of the Town
      • Rationing and Making Do
      • Evacuees in Town
      • War Effort & Entertainments
    • The War in the Countryside
    • Roll of Honour
    • Postwar recovery?
      • Danger Remained in the Countryside
      • Prisoners of War on the Doorstep
      • Rationing & Restraint
      • Putting Our Houses in Order
      • Sanitation to Rival Concentration Camp
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Tag: Horncastle Childrens Homes

Air Raids and the Aspidistra

In September 1940 Horncastle was the first town in the county to be bombed by the Nazis.

Air Raid, Almshouses, ARP, BBC Peoples War, Boston, Boston Road, Fire Brigade, Foundry Street, Grisby, High Street, Holmeleigh, Horncastle Childrens Homes, Jack Danby, Lincoln Co-operative Society, Lincolnshire Co-Op, Lincolnshire Echo, Louth, Midville, North Street, Police, Queen Street, Railway, Red House, Roy Marshall, Shirley Bell, Shop, Skegness, Warehouse, Whelpton Almshouses

Roll of Honour

Here we have tried to collect information on the lives of the 41 men named on Horncastle’s memorials who died during WW2.

Commonwealth War Graves, Drill Hall, Holmeleigh, Horncastle and Woodhall Spa News, Horncastle Childrens Homes, Horncastle Town Cemtery, St Mary's Church, St Marys Church, war memorial, War Memorial Hospital

Evacuees in Town

It appears that the first evacuees came to the town in late 1939. But when the expected bombs failed to … More

Grimsby, Holmeleigh, Horncastle Childrens Homes, Lily Boys, QEGS, Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, railway station, Shirley Bell, Womens Voluntary Service, WVS
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