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By Andrew Ffrench @OxMailAndyF Business reporter covering Didcot and Wallingford. Call me on 01865 425425 A Home Guard platoon during the Second World War – a picture believed to have been taken at one of the Cowley car factories While our brave troops fought the enemy, another worthy group of men protected our communities back home. The Home Guard may be seen as a comical and often clumsy and haphazard outfit in the popular Dad’s Army on TV. In truth, its members worked hard to protect everyone during the Second World War, particularly when German bombs were raining down and the threat of invasion was very real. ....
Howard Jenkins rode on the line many times with his parents on their way to visit relatives. He writes: “We would travel from Princes Risborough, get off at Oxford and walk to Gloucester Green to catch the Black and White coach service to Cheltenham from 1941 until the line closed. “My memory is the train passed fields near Oxford piled high with crashed Second World War aeroplanes. I can’t put an accurate date on this or place but it would in the region of 1947-51.” His memory, of course, is correct – the Cowley factories stopped car production and switched to supporting the war effort. ....