The first students, then all female, at Nonington College helped with the harvest in 1939.
Threshing at Beauchamps Bottom during WW2. Local farm workers are being assisted by soldiers. These were possibly Canadians encamped in Fredville Park
More threshing at Beauchamps Bottom.
During WW2 the Dover YMCA had its headquarters at Old St. Alban’s Court, Nonington.
A YMCA mobile canteen and volunteer drivers
Another view of the mobile canteen
A broken wind-screen caused by a shell splinter.
A smaller YMCA mobile canteen at St Alban’s, 1941
The back of one of the YMCA vans at old St Alban’s Court
YMCA mobile library at St Alban’s, 1942.
The YMCA used vans as lending libraries for members of the armed forces.
Nonington Firemen circa 1940. Not necessarily in order-Vic Barwick;Horace Titnus;Arthur Nelson;Godfrey Ledner;Wilf Barwick.
Nonington WW2 firemen
A fragment of the doodle bug, which fell in the field behind the Youth Club in Easole Street at 23.55. hrs. on 13th June, 1944.
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