A talk – One Family’s War

A talk with Refreshments

Janie Penn Barwell will talk about the experiences of her parents and their siblings in the Second World War, including of the Portsmouth Blitz, Home Guard in Bristol, Dunkirk, Navy in the Far East, POWs in Germany and on the Burma railway, a para at Arnhem, a baby’s experience of evacuation, and the Russian convoy.

With photographs and artefacts.

Further artefacts supplied by Gary Skinner.

The ticket price includes supper.

This is part of the pre-festival activities for the 2019 Shelswell Festival.