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Malcolm G Knapp
Published by Lincolnshire Books
93pp
255mm x 203mm paperback
ISBN: 1-872375-15-4 (1995)
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There is an aspect of Grantham's history not possessed by most other towns of comparable size ... namely a pictorial diary of its life throughout the whole of the Second World War.
This is entirely due to a local businessman whose business was photography. Walter Lee, a Grantham man born in the town in 1891, and who set up his photographic business in the town, kept a meticulous diary of the war and its effects on the town.
How he obtained his film to take his superb photographs throughout the war is not known although he was the 'official' photographer for several organisations, e.g. security, passbooks and identity cards for the local munitions factories.
However, the local historians of the town have since benefited from Walter Lee's foresight and those wonderful photographs are now available to the public in a way never before achieved.
The author has used the photographs, together with his own research, to show how Grantham got on with its life despite and because of a world war on its doorstep; they show how the town battled, damaged but determined, to do its bit which, with hindsight, was quite a considerable bit.
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