A week of Rations and Remembrance for Grange residents

You said….   We want young and old Grange residents to be a part of community remembrance activities

We did…   helped fund a wartime edition of Grange Now as part of community events

Grange residents have been experiencing life on the home front, taking cover in a real Anderson shelter, and reading a special wartime edition of their local community newsletter. 

A World War II experience week, lead by Grange Library, has brought residents of all ages together to either discover or reminisce on a key chapter in our history. 

All seven schools in the Cartmel Peninsula were evacuated to the library for action-packed learning about the war.  

An Anderson shelter was reconstructed in the library car park and craft making sessions, wartime cookery, WW2 toys and home guard drill sessions with two former soldiers helped bring the war to life.

A special edition of community newspaper, Grange Now, has been funded with £500 from Cumbria County Council’s Grange and Cartmel Neighbourhood Forum as part of the week. The special pull out featured wartime recipes, stories and was written by residents and pupils from local schools. 

Funding for the week was also provided by the county council’s children’s extended services team.

Residents were entertained during an open evening on Thursday night at the library, with special guests including Nella Last and Vera Lynn.

The week has been rounded off with a WW2 coffee morning, with entertainment from local resident Victor Hindle and a demonstra­tion of the jitterbug and jive by year nine pupils from Cartmel Priory. 

All proceeds from the coffee morning went to ‘Help for Heroes’.