This blog posts extracts from E J Rudsdale's diaries of life on the home front in Britain during the Second World War.
Each extract was posted exactly 70 years after it was first written, marking the 70th anniversary of the Second World War between 2009-2015.
22nd January 1942
Very cold. All pipes frozen in Castle, so I have to carry water from Holly Trees.
Mother is not feeling very well today, owing to the intense cold.
My mother's letter to my father of 21.1.42 mentions temperatures of 16 degrees farenheit. She was writing in north London. which was then Middlesex. She also mentions family members who are poorly at this time.
Many thanks for this insight, Barbara. No wonder people were becoming ill in these freezing temperatures, especially with the restrictions on fuel. I notice that Alwyne Garling also reported very low temperatures in Colchester in his diary for 22nd January 1942. CP
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My mother's letter to my father of 21.1.42 mentions temperatures of 16 degrees farenheit. She was writing in north London. which was then Middlesex. She also mentions family members who are poorly at this time.
Many thanks for this insight, Barbara. No wonder people were becoming ill in these freezing temperatures, especially with the restrictions on fuel. I notice that Alwyne Garling also reported very low temperatures in Colchester in his diary for 22nd January 1942. CP
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