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Family Poetry Collection

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posted on 2024-06-05, 20:12 authored by Their Finest Hour Project Team

The contributor brought along a poetry collection that was written in ink pens in the dark evenings of the war. The pictures were cut from magazines. The contributor's grandmother and grandfather were in Weirs Lane, Oxford at the time. The contributor's mother heard these poems as a child. They helped her cope with fear and loneliness.

The contributor also brought along a painting by her grandma's father, William Frederick James Philips, who died during the First World War.

History

Item list and details

Poetry Collection (pictures are beside the poems, 'Longing' and 'My Doll'); 'King George the Beloved' poem in the same collection; 'Creating poetry helps the war to pass'- pamphlet

Person the story/items relate to

Florence Margaret Edens

Person who shared the story/items

Angela Arnold

Relationship between the subject of the story and its contributor

Angela's grandma

Type of submission

Shared at Oxford Westgate Library, Oxfordshire on 10 March 2023.

Record ID

90468 | OXF001