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World War One At HomePast & present - how WW1 changed your world

A selection of merged shots from the June launch of WW1 At Home

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The original St Osyth memorial failed to mention all the names required. A second version also contained errors.

A memorial, erected in 2000, replaced the original & is correct. Image: Phylis Hendy

  • In 1914 the children at Steyne School in Worthing could hear the guns firing from across the English Channel.
  • At the Rotherwas munitions works in Hereford, 4,000 women workers filled 70,000 heavy shells each week.
  • On the 9th January 1917 Norfolk lifeboat legend Henry Blogg led the crew of the Cromer lifeboat on a daring double rescue.
  • In WW1, the Sussex and Surrey countryside was emptied of shire horses and riding ponies.
  • Burton Town Hall became an infirmary during wartime for wounded soldiers and victims of Zeppelin raids.
  • The original St Osyth memorial failed to mention all the names required. A second version also contained errors.
  • Crittall Windows have made steel-framed windows in Essex for over 150 years and are still in business.
  • A group of volunteers is researching the lives of nearly 2000 men from the Tynemouth area who died in WW1.
  • The workers of HH Martyn originally made fittings for ocean going liners. During the war, they turned their hand to aircraft.
  • Wrest Park at Silsoe in Bedfordshire had an important role as a military hospital. It was owned by the 9th Baron Lucas.

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