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Close friends: German prisoners of war (POW) in a Herefordshire hop yard, possibly Pomona Farm at Bartestree

Title: Close friends: German prisoners of war (POW) in a Herefordshire hop yard, possibly Pomona Farm at Bartestree

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Description: Close friends: German prisoners of war (POW) in a Herefordshire hop yard, possibly Pomona Farm at Bartestree. Many close relationships developed between local people and the POWs and many Germans and Italians chose to make Herefordshire their home after the war. (Herefordshire Lore/Bobbie Blackwell) Reproduced by kind permission of Herefordshire Lore - www.herefordshirelore.org.uk

Flying Spitfires: Marjorie Rosser was conscripted into the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force in 1942

Title: Flying Spitfires: Marjorie Rosser was conscripted into the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force in 1942

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Description: Flying Spitfires: Marjorie Rosser was conscripted into the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force in 1942. As a flight engineer  at RAF Rednal, she prepared – and sometimes flew in – the training officers’ two-seater Spitfires. One morning she was alarmed to find a stowaway German POW hiding in a plane. Later, sharing a cup of cocoa with him, she had to concede: ‘He was the most gorgeous young man I ever saw in my life.’ (Herefordshire Lore/Marjorie Rosser) Reproduced by kind permission of Herefordshire Lore - www.herefordshirelore.org.uk

Harris's Real Wiltshire Bacon stand

Title: Harris's Real Wiltshire Bacon stand

Type: Image

Date Published: [1900-1914]

Description: A black and white photograph of two men in a four wheeled carriage in front of a stand at an agricultural show advertising "Gurney's Special Show of Harris's Real Wiltshire Bacon". The Harris family developed a special technique for curing bacon and ham called the 'Wiltshire cure" (Source: The Independent). Behind them is a small group of onlookers and two pigs' heads hung on the stand.

Empty shells: May Morgan (second from right) and colleagues work on empty shells

Title: Empty shells: May Morgan (second from right) and colleagues work on empty shells

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Description: Empty shells: May Morgan (second from right) and colleagues work on empty shells. The photo may have been taken at one of the ‘satellite’ shell stores away from ROF Rotherwas such as the one at Ewyas Harold. The main Hereford site was well known to the Germans, having been meticulously photographed by a Luftwaffe spy plane in 1940. (Peggy Putnam) Reproduced by kind permission of Herefordshire Lore - www.herefordshirelore.org.uk

Dig for Victory: Naomi Edwards and her brother help dig up the vegetable patch at the back of the family home, 30 Cotterell Street, Hereford for an Anderson air raid shelter

Title: Dig for Victory: Naomi Edwards and her brother help dig up the vegetable patch at the back of the family home, 30 Cotterell Street, Hereford for an Anderson air raid shelter

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Description: Dig for Victory: Naomi Edwards and her brother help dig up the vegetable patch at the back of the family home, 30 Cotterell Street, Hereford for an Anderson air raid shelter. (Herefordshire Lore/Dave Edwards) Reproduced by kind permission of Herefordshire Lore - www.herefordshirelore.org.uk

Going bananas: Bananas were on every table at this Berrington Street party

Title: Going bananas: Bananas were on every table at this Berrington Street party

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Description: Going bananas: Bananas were on every table at this Berrington Street party. Londoner Joy Davey recalled ‘we didn’t see bananas at all [during the war]. Mother would buy parsnips and cook them and mash them and put banana essence in and make a banana sandwich! Well, it tasted like bananas to me!’ Reproduced by kind permission of Herefordshire Lore - www.herefordshirelore.org.uk

Car outside Bishop's Palace gates, Hereford

Title: Car outside Bishop's Palace gates, Hereford

Type: Image

Date Published: [1904-1914]

Description: A black and white photograph of a car with luggage lashed to the roof outside the Bishop's Palace gates, Hereford. There are a lady and gentleman seated in the back, and a lady and the chauffeur in front.