Many thanks, first of all, to Amanda Lillywhite (www.crazypanda.com) for her patience, organisation and creative flair in designing this website. I am also very grateful to the following people and organisations for permission to reproduce illustrations:
Howard Baker, for the photographs of evacuees leaving Gravesend. His website gives an account of his own evacuation as a child: http://web.mac.com/h.m.baker/iWeb
Hazel Basford, for her helpful advice on converting cars to ambulances. Her website, http://www.juroch.demon.co.uk/kentvad.htm, gives a fascinating account of VAD nurses and hospitals in Kent during the First World War.
Philippa Besant, who generously trusted me with negatives of photographs untouched since 1904, showing her family and their servants in the Scottish residences of Kirswall and Nether Erd.
Susie Clark, conservator, for helping me track down several photographs.
Paul Costen, www.costen.co.uk
Michael Duffy, www.firstworldwar.com
Rowena Edlin-White, for also allowing me to reproduce precious family photographs.
English Heritage (www.english-heritage.org.uk), the Edwards family, Jeanne Brewin and Virginia Arrowsmith for the Brodsworth Hall photographs (all images © English Heritage). Alf Edwards, chauffeur and valet to the Thelluson family at the Hall, was a keen photographer and took many pictures of the staff there. Also Doncaster Archives/Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council for kind permission to reproduce the accounts book page.
Harby School, http://www.harby.co.uk/factfile.htm
Adam Hart-Davis, http://www.adam-hart-davis.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/index.html
Peter Higginbotham, http://www.workhouses.org.uk/
The Holocaust Centre, Beth Shalom, founded by the Smith family, and its Publications Manager, Dr Wendy Whitworth, who were so generous with their time and support.
Kindertransportees, Susanne Pearson and Bob Rosner, and the family of Hannah Hickman, for permission to reproduce both photographs and extracts from their stories.
Philip Kirk, who very kindly allowed me to borrow his grandfather's diary of the First World War and to reproduce the cigarette cards he'd collected in 1914.
Linley Sambourne House and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/linleysambournehouse/general/default.asp
Craig Pickard, http://members.lycos.co.uk/blewholt/wwihorseroh. Craig and Amanda's website has several original photographs of horses and cavalry regiments in the Great War, and is a must for horse-lovers generally.
For further information about the Powell-Cotton Museum, email pcmuseum@btconnnect.com
Michael Swann, whose images of Victorian tiles can be found on the home page and (slightly larger!) at his website, http://www.derbycity.com/michael/tiles.html
Wycombe Abbey School, www.wycombeabbey.com
WW2 People's War is an online archive of wartime memories contributed by members of the public and gathered by the BBC. The archive can be found at www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar.
In a couple of cases I have not been able to trace owners of photographs, despite my best efforts. Please email if I have inadvertently reproduced copyright material without permission.
Many thanks also to Penny Rossell, for supplying the Teachers’ Notes
Text copyright © Jennie Walters 2005, 2006, 2007
Teachers’ Notes copyright © Penny Rossell 2005, 2006
These notes and worksheets can be downloaded and photocopied for classroom use
