Malpas and the Home Front

Malpas and the Home Front

Malpas and the Home Front

Published in 2005 to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War 2.

It is based on interviews with twenty-five individuals who lived in Malpas during the war, backed up with extensive research into newspapers and into records in the National and Cheshire archives.

Subjects covered include:

• the effects on the town of the outbreak of war, including reception and housing of evacuees from Liverpool and London;
• church, chapel and school life during the war;
• wartime farming, including the contributions of the Women's Land Army and prisoners-of-war;
• support for the war effort, including the Women's Institute Fruit Preservation Centre;
• local fund-raising such as 'Spitfire' and 'Salute the Soldier' weeks;
• the Home Guard; Czechs, Poles and Americans on the streets of the town;
• the return home of service women and men after the war.

An appendix provides details of the nineteen men commemorated on the Malpas war memorial.

PUBLISHED 2005 by David Hayns – £5.00