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Correspondence with Biggleswade Senior Girls School, including much day-to-day material such as injuries to pupils, ordering of supplies, maintenance and replacement of equipment, staffing, conveyance of children to school, dinner scheme etc. as well as the following topics/issues/events:

1939 - 1942

From: 1939 To: 1942

- air raid precautions [1939-1941]; - evacuee children from London attending school [1939-1941]; - implications of rationing on Domestic subjects [1940]; - arrangements for viewing a Cadbury Bros educational film at Regal Cinema [1940]; - criticisms from Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Domestic Science at school [1940]; - classes in wartime dressmaking [1940]; - standby provision - emergency community feeding [1941]; - surrender of jam stocks to Divisional Food Office [1941]; - resignation of headmistress through ill health [1942].

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