Ramsbury

On Sunday, 3rd September 1939, the rural idyll of Ramsbury was shattered when people in towns and villages all over the country heard the news which would change the course of their lives. On that day those near a radio heard the Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, solemnly announce that Britain was at war with Germany. It was the start of six years of blackouts, rationing, air-raid warnings, of loved ones being sent away and of the intensifying of community spirit which always seems to develop in times of trouble. The arrival of the Americans was for some the only bright spot in an otherwise miserable war. These images capture life in the village and in the nearby airfield immediately before and during WW2