NONINGTON DURING WW2

  • 1939 students with harvest
    The first students, then all female, at Nonington College helped with the harvest in 1939.
  • YMCA Nonington HQ
    During WW2 the Dover YMCA had its headquarters at Old St. Alban’s Court, Nonington.
  • A YMCA mobile canteen and volunteer drivers
  • Another view of the mobile canteen
  • WW2-back of YMCA van, St Albans
    The back of one of the YMCA vans at old St Alban’s Court
  • YMCA Nonington-mobile canteen 1941
    A smaller YMCA mobile canteen at St Alban’s, 1941
  • YMCA van shell damage
    A broken wind-screen caused by a shell splinter.
  • YMCA Nonington-mobile library 1942
    YMCA mobile library at St Alban’s, 1942. The YMCA used vans as lending libraries for members of the armed forces.
  • Nonington Firemen circa 1940. Not necessarily in order-Vic Barwick;Horace Titnus;Arthur Nelson;Godfrey Ledner;Wilf Barwick.
  • WW2 Nonington firemen
    Nonington WW2 firemen
  • WW2-1944 fragment of doodle bug, fell 13.6.1944
    A fragment of the doodle bug, which fell in the field behind the Youth Club in Easole Street at 23.55. hrs. on 13th June, 1944.
  • WW2-piece of a doodle-bug which dropped on Nonington 23.55.hrs. 13th June, 1944
    The doodle bug fragment and a map of doodle bug strikes in Kent published by the Kent Messenger.
  • WW2-threshing-Beauchamps Bottom
    Threshing at Beauchamps Bottom during WW2. Local farm workers are being assisted by soldiers. These were possibly Canadians encamped in Fredville Park
  • Harvest WW2 rear Church Room
    More threshing at Beauchamps Bottom.