The country was hard-pressed to feed itself during the war, looking to the farmers to plough every last acre. Come harvest time, there was a shortage of labour.
Remembrance Day Parade and Related Posts
Sunday 10th November saw the annual Remembrance Day Parade, which took place at the top of the High Street by the War Memorial. The Society has a number of posts and articles relating to both World War I and World War II.
A Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter
Introduction This is the incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka, the WW2 female resistance fighter known as Agent Z0, told by Clare Mulley, who has extracted the details of this remarkable woman after more than 40 years of suppression by a Soviet regime that actually imprisoned Elzbieta after the war. Speaker Clare Mulley. Clare, who lives in Saffron Walden, is well …
Saffron Walden Historical Journal No 25 (Spring 2013)
‘What a Place to Die’: the WW2 plane crash at Little Walden – Julian Evan-Hart