Wartime Farm '39

https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=40m55s
September '39
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=3m21s

1930s milking parlour
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=6m12s

Workshops & machinery
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=6m45s

Government encouraging conversion to electric stoves
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=7m54s
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=14m19s
only 1/10 rural houses had mains electricity => Lister Light portable petrol powered generator
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=15m25s
Kitchenette
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=20m57s
Paraffin stove
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=22m47s
Linoleum
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=51m45s

War Ags - extra 6.5 million acres of crops - government anticipated blockade
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=9m27s
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=39m33s

Blacksmith improvisation - mole subsoiler
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=16m55s
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=23m50s
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=29m48s
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=36m32s

Fordson - 20 horses / tractor => tractors tripled from 50K to 175K
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=25m58s

3-9-39 Neville Chamberlain
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=30m30s
Phony war -- September '39 - May '40
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=53m16s
June '40 - Dunkirk, Fall of France
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=53m31s

ARP wardens & blackout
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=32m11s
Winnie's speech, ARP blackout
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=55m25s

Ploughing at night
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=45m22s

Foraging for medicinals - 2d/lb for rosehips
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=34m22s

Auxiliary Units
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=40m13s
https://plus.google.com/collection/YLINaB
Special Duties Section - 3.5K - women
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=43m12s
Auxiliers
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=47m27s

http://www.coleshillhouse.com/specialdutiesbranch/special-duties-branch-overview.php
http://www.coleshillhouse.com/specialdutiesbranch/index.php
Known under the names Special Duties Branch (On most official war records), Special Duties Organisation (On some WW2 documents) and Special Duties Section or SDS (a post war phrase).

Bananas & Bacon
https://youtu.be/CUsU5s0ofYo?t=52m27s

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtakTnKQQMCx0RPTVRn-XIp6kdtol7shK

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