Yateley Society Local History Exhibitions

2004: Yateley in World War 2

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INTRODUCTION TO EXHIBITION

• Introduction
• Your Memories
• Oral History
• Miss de Winton Corry
• Canadians steadfast in our darkest hour

YATELEY IN THE INTERWAR YEARS

• The Interwar Social Hierachy
• The New Gentry of the Interwar Years
• The Village before the War - Recollections of Mrs Ena Collison
• Tice & Son - Recollections of Mrs Ena Collison
• Shopping before the War - Recollections of Mrs Ena Collison
• The Gentry Houses - Recollections of Mrs Ena Collison
• Pre-war Health Care - Recollections of local people
• Dressmaker to the Gentry - Recollection of Mr Michael Tice
• "A very different Yateley" - Recollection of Mrs Joan Erskine née Oxlade
• Gardeners to the Gentry - Recollections of local people
• Changes to the Old Order
• The old gentry families die out
• Commercial dynasties fade away
• The Hilton family - 127 years of public service

THE HOME FRONT - YATELEY DURING WORLD WAR 2

• The Phoney War - Recollections of local people
• Armed Services in Yateley - Recollections of Mr Douglas Gibbs
• Yateley Home Guard - Recollections of local people
• Two Bombs at Little Vigo - Recollections of local people
• Bombs at Frogmore and at Cricket Hill - Recollections of local people
• Air-raid Precautions - Recollections of local people
• Air Crash at Mill Lane - Recollections of local people
• Women's War Work - Recollections of local people
• Services Club at Yateley - Manor Recollections of local people
• The Women's Institute in Wartime - History of Yateley WI by Betty Vint
• The Fire Service - Recollections of local people
• Search Light Battery at Darby Green - Recollections of local people
• Rationing - Recollections of local people
• Dances at the Drill Hall - Recollections of local people
• Canadians visit Yateley Hall - Recollection of Angus Hamilton of New Brunswick
• Rememboriing back to Wartime - Recollections of local people

RAF HARTFORD BRIDGE & D-DAY

• Airfield Construction at Yateley including memories of Mr Ted Harris
• Canadian Reconnaissance Squadron No 430 (City of Sudbury) formed
• The Free French and D-Day
• Bernard Citroën
• Pierre Mendez France
• D-Day: 6th June 1944 - Air Support
• Allied Liberation of Europe
• Air Chief Marshall Sir William MacDonald
• Memories of D-Day - Recollection of pilots, aircrew and ground staff
• Memories of D-Day - Recollections of local people
• The Mystery of the Black Mitchells
• The Dutch move in with the latest Spitfires
• D-Day: a summary of events by Stuart Marshall, former Manager of Blackbushe Airport

The Brown Family of Cricket Hill, Yateley

• Cricket Hill Cottage
• The Brown Family and the Lych-gate
• Father awarded Victoria Cross during the Indian Mutiny
• The Children of Colonol F D M Brown VC
• Miss J V L Brown MBE (1888-1983) founder of Yateley Textiles
• Major General R. Ll. Brown CB CBE MA FRICS (1895-1983)

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