Hammersmith and Fulham During World War II Essay

Source L is an account of the memories that Barbara Walsh had whilst being evacuated. The source is useful as it highlights the differences in social class and wealth, The bathroom had a heated towel rail which I had never seen before. This shows us that people had a different measuring rod of living. People also had certain expectations, astonished that London kidren could eat with knives and forks as they expected us to eat with our fingers.Her experience tells us a lot virtually the feelings that evacuees could have, although hers are individual to her, I can fluid remember the desolate feeling I had as, one by one, the friends with whom I had made the journey disappeared with their smart families. Her own feelings, opinions and experience whitethorn be similar to the majority of evacuees. Despite being pen fifty years after the event the account still holds some very detailed factual information, My sister and I were to share the guest room, which had single beds with blue sheets and blankets.Also through the account we learn a lot about the process of evacuation, I carried a small bag containing a change of clothes and washing kit, also my gasmask in a brown cardboard box. Her account also highlights differences in religion As a zealous Catholic of seven years of age I matte indignant about this state of aff tunes and wrote this should be a Catholic church in the visitors book in red draw and signed my name. People of different religions were thrown together and expected to deal with the circumstances, Jews lived with staunch Catholics etc. this was due to cause many problems.However the source is written fifty years later and some details have been forgotten, like which station the children left from. The details that the compose has included are the types of things a child would remember. Due to the fact that it has been so long Barbara Walshs memories may have been altered, either through her own wish to view it more positively or through the influence of media publishing popular images that may have been incorporated into her own. The account also has very little factual information and is solely the memories of the author and does non accommodate the experiences of anyone else.On the basis of this I venture that although the source may be reliable, despite being written fifty years later, it is not particularly useful by itself. I think that the source is reliable because it does contain a lot of detailed information. I do not, however think that it is useful because it only gives us the feelings and experiences of one person. If it were to be used as part of a few sources with other peoples experiences then it may show us something different.Both sources H and I are photographs of homes destroyed after an air raid. They show us the loss of property and lives that place during air raids. It highlights the danger faced by the ordinary civilians each night. Source J is a table big(p) statistical information to how man y bombs were dropped and damage to lifespan and property in a given area. From this table we can see that Hammersmith and Fulham were not that badly affected, especially on comparison to places like Poplar. Source K is a letter from an un greetn resident written during 1940, it reveals the names of roads, which were bombed and names some friends caught up.It also expresses the feelings of the author. Sources H and I have limited use, as they do not give us any factual details like those in source J, although they are clear visual resources. We do not know the origin of source J and so can not be sure that the information is correct, it also doesnt give us any ruttish details to see how the public were feeling like source K does. If all the information in Source K were true then it would be the most useful of the sources. However due to gossip and misinformation the source maybe unreliable. This source pinpoints exactly where the bombs landed and what was destroyed as well as givin g us an insight into the feelings of the author, we must also remember that not all people will feel the same.