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“Spalding defended in realistic exercises” gets quite dramatic towards the end.

ARP And Home Guard Excercise in Spalding

Thanks to Edward Finch for finding this video. The ARP and Home Guard carry out an exercise in the Lincolnshire town of Spalding 15th October 1942. ...

Spalding Civil Defence news item and disbandment letters

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The Secret Army

June 1940. France had fallen. The British expeditionary force was being ravaged at Dunkirk. It seemed likely that Adolf Hitler would invade Britain. Winston Churchill had only b ...

Some of the many people who protected us during the War (Home Guard, Civil Defence)

Thanks to Roy Ashton continuing the theme from yesterday, here is a memory from Bruce Robinson. The photographs attached show some of the many people who stepped up to protec ...

Article Category: Civil Defence

“Spalding defended in realistic exercises” gets quite dramatic towards the end.

ARP And Home Guard Excercise in Spalding

Spalding Civil Defence news item and disbandment letters

The Secret Army

Some of the many people who protected us during the War (Home Guard, Civil Defence)

British Sugar – Civil Defence

Disbandment of Civil Defence

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