World War One At Home - West
Listen to the stories in full from February 24th on your local BBC radio station or by visiting www.bbc.co.uk/ww1
Minehead, Somerset: Wagonloads of Mules. How a Somerset seaside town saw an unexpected wartime invasion. Image – original photography courtesy of Daphne McCutcheon. Present day image: courtesy of the BBC
Kingswood, Bristol: a Motorcycle Manufacture Supplies the Frontline. The Bristol motorbike manufacturers that impressed the MoD during WW1. Photograph courtesy of Bill Douglas
Regent Circus, Swindon: Peace Day Riots. Anarchy at the celebration of war’s end. Image of Swindon in the early 1900s courtesy of the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre
Leighterton Cemetery, Gloucester: Australian Squadrons Train for the Western Front. Where thousands of men trained as pilots during WW1. Image courtesy of Alan Vaughan
