TIMELINE FOR RAF ( Royal Air Force) NOCTON HALL

1902 - Norman Hodgson takes control of the hall.

1917 - Norman allowes the hall to be utilised as a convalescent home for American Officers wounded in action.

1919 - The estate is sold to W.H. Dennis.

1936 - The estate is sold again, this time becoming property of Smith's Potato Crisps.

WW2

The hall was leased out to the Americans for an army clearing station.

1946 - The Royal Air Force chose Nocton Hall for its permanent military hospital for Lincolnshire.

1947 - The hall was used as the living quarters for the female officers of the RAF medical staff.

May 1957 - The hall opened its maternity wing.

1983 - The military closed the hospital.

1984 - Nocton Hall was leased to the US Armed Forces, this time as a wartime contingency hospital.

1995 - The hall was handed back to the British Government.

The hall was later turned in to a residential home.

On Sat 24 Oct 04 the Hall was set a light by a unknow arsonist.

Coal House at War

Coal house at war is a great new 3 - part show on BBC 1, about 3 families pretending to be in World War 2 times and how they coped with day to day life.
We have just watched the 1st episode on BBC iplayer, so here is the link if you wish to watch it -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00dzxjc/Coal_House_Coal_House_at_War_Episode_1/. I really liked it because it shows you all the things people had to go though like having to walk 4 miles to work!
Hope you like it.
Please tell me what you think after watching it.

Story Time!

Here is a little story I did today, hope you like it! -

A young girl called Tilly was walking, walking alone.
Bombs dropping like rain drops all around her.
Tilly was scared, but she did not show it.
Tilly never showed what she felt, even when her house was bombed, she was told that her Mum and Dad had gone with it and that she had no were to go, not once did little Tilly cry.
As Tilly walked people ran, ran from the bombs.
Tilly walked to the bombs. She did not care anymore, she did not find Hitler and his silly little moustache funny anymore, like she used to, she hated Hitler more than anything in this horrid world she lived in and at the moment where bombs were falling all around her, Tilly wanted nothing more than to leave the world she lived in. Just like her parents had, just like everybody she loved and cared about had.
Tilly keep ed walking.
She had not stopped in day and was not planning to stop anytime soon, not until Hitler was dead, not until she had killed Hitler. She would never stop walking.

Film Report

Anne Franks Diary

What was it about? - A young girl called Anne and her family had to go in to hiding because the Nazis were taking all the Jaws to concentration camps, while the Franks are there they are joined by the Van Pels family and fritx pefeffer.After two years the families were found,no one knows know tolled on them or why they did, but in the end only one person survived and that was Anne's Dad Otto Frank.

Was the storyline good? -Yes. I think the way they tolled the story was very good.

Was the acting good? - Again yes, Ellie Kendrick ( who played Anne) was very good and when you look at Anne and Ellie they both look very alike and the other actors was great. For a complete list of who plays who go to - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank_(BBC_television_serial)


My thoughts on what happened to Anne Frank -
I think it is very sad that people had to go in to hiding because they did not believe or look like Hitler wanted them to. Anne and her family were in hiding for 2 years, when Anne and her sister Margo died there father Otto Frank had been out of the Auschwitz concentration camp for 6 weeks. I have not yet read the book,is it good?


Anne Frank


Carries War




What was it about? - Carrie and her brother Nick are evacuated to Wales during the Second World War. They stay with Mr. Evans and his younger sister Auntie Lou. While Carrie and Nick are there they befriend another evacuee who is staying with Mr.Evans other sister.
The housekeeper at of the house were there friend is staying tell the children many stores and amongst them is one about a cursed skull in the library.


Who was your favourite cater / actor? - Well... all the actors were very good but my favourite was Carrie, the person that played Carrie made her very believable and like she real existed

WW2 Resources

Book Review

Name of the book - The Diary Of A Young Nurse In World War 2

By - Moira Butterfield

Date finished reading book - 17.6.09

Book Rating - 8 out of 10

The main characters - Jean, Cessie, Marge, Matron and Rick.
Storyline - A young girl called Jean goes to work in a hospital in London to help with the growing number of patients from the war. She keeps her diary as much as she can, telling you about nurse exams, her love for Fred Astaire,dealing with WW2 and lots more about what is going on in her life.

My favourite bit - Is when Jean and Rick dance together as Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth.

Sum it up in a few words - OK, good and interesting.

Would you change the end - No. I think the ending was good and finished at the right time,the end of World War 2.It did explain how long it took for rationing to end, food rations lasted until 1950.

Review - All together this book was a good read. It told you more about WW2 ,what peoples thoughts were about what was going on, how they kept their hopes up and how they improvised things that were on ration eg paint legs to look as if you're wearing stockings, use burnt cork as eyelash mascara and powdered eggs.So if you are doing about WW2 this is a good book to read.

Potato Diary - 4

Remember my potato experiment, well it did not work! But we did not paint the inside of the box black, so if you have a go paint it black and tell me how it goes.

My potato plants are doing really well now. Here are the measurements -
Vales Emerald 1 is 11cm high
Vales Emerald 2 is 15 cm high
Rocket 1 is 8 cm high
Rocket 2 is only 4 cm high!

I have had a few comments questions about why I had carrot and cheese sandwiches, it is because in WW2 cheese was rationed, so they would put carrot in the sandwich to make the cheese go further.

I also had a question about my favourite part of the WW2 day ,my top 4 thing were -

1 feeding baby lambs

2 holding baby rabbits

3 digging for victory

4 was seeing friends!

Also the potato plant that will be produce the most potatoes, I think it will be Vales Emerald 2 because it's the biggest and looks very healthy.

Evacuee Day at Rushmoor Country Park

On Monday I went to an evacuee day at Rushmoor.
We all had to dress up as if we were children in WW2.The first thing we did was write a postcard to our mums about what we were doing and how we got there,we also made a gas mask box( that we had to carry with us all day) Then we planted some seeds (thyme,carrot,parsnip and spinach) then we digged for victory (shown below).
For lunch I had a carrot and cheese sandwich.
In the afternoon we had a tour of all the animals we fed goats and baby lambs,I got to hold a 15 week old rabbit (it was tiny).We saw some baby pigs,a cow,mice,rats and a horse called Silver.
We sat in an Anderson Shelter.
At the end of the day we all got a ride on a pony called Noddy.http://www.rushmoorpark.co.uk/