Wartime

John Burge remembers some of the social interactions that took place between GIs and local Frome people.

Winifred Fairhurst helped to look after the soldiers frome the Royal Artillery when they first came back from Dunkirk, many dirty and wet and without boots.

Isabel George had to keep up her art college studies in the evenings during the war and work for a catering firm during the day. She completed her training after the war.

Hilary Daniel talks about growing up in Frome during the Second World War. This recording was first broadcast on FromeFM Radio in 2011.

This section of the website tells the stories of Frome people involved in the war effort.

Diana Crossman was at Christ Church School in Frome at the beginning of World War Two.