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Ww2 postcards

Astoness

Astoness

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img744.jpghi folks having another look through my bits and pieces and came across these 8 postcards depicting the many faces of ww2...the lets all pull together attitude..the devastation and also what i think is sometimes forgotton and thats just how the women played a massive part in the war effort..this of course includes WW1..

womens auxiliary police training at duke street police station
 
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war weapons week..14th to 19th oct 1940..scrap metal piled in foreground..looks to be in front of the hall of memory...

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love this one...

BSA factory small heath..workers all out for the royal visit 18th april 1940
 

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Great pic my mom worked at the BSA during the war What a wonderful photo I would have loved to know if she was there then
 
thanks all..they came from a collection called birmingham during the second world war the one of the women at duke st is number 17 but unfortunately i only have 8 of them..

lyn
 
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