Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Arthur L Cole (4); Colonel Sir Edward Warner, President of the Connaught Hospital (3); Colonel Sir Francis Whitmore, Lord Lieutenant of Essex (4); Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (12).Subjects include: repair of bomb damage; transfer of Voluntary Aid Detachment nurses to the Auxiliary Territorial Service; repossession of requisitioned land.Also includes: telegrams supporting WSC in the...

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Correspondents include: G J Creed (11); Sir Richard Wells; Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (5); A W Cuthbert (11); S D Clements, Private Secretary of War Damage Commission.Subjects include: repair of bomb damage and rehousing; Rent Restrictions Act [1939]; evacuation; release from Armed Forces.

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Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (8).Subjects include: repair of bomb damage; naturalization of aliens; local housing shortages.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Harry Goschen [Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association]; Mrs S Gould (7); Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (7).Subjects include: reparations to Jews; loss of SS Almeda Star; Conservative Central Office guidance to candidates in the 1945 General Election on opticians; Women's Land Army; bomb damage repair and rehousing; war widows' pensions; land reclamation for agriculture;...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Lieutenant J E G Halsey (4); Brendan Bracken; Sir James Hawkey, Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association (12); Sir John Anderson [Lord Privy Seal, later 1st Lord Waverley] on ARP Controllers and London Regional Commissioners (3); Walter Elliot [Minister of Health]; H E Hounsell (5).Subjects include: Conservative Central Office undermining WSC in Epping; Supplementary Reserve and Territorial Army commissions; air raid shelters; munitions profiteering;...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Clement Holdstock (5); G J Holtham (9); Joyce Howard (6); Reginald Hucks (4); Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (5).Subjects include: Merchant Navy clothing; land requisition; rehousing bombing victims; the place of religion in probation work (amendments to the Criminal Justice Bill, 1939); British residents in unoccupied France (1941); BBC messages to France.Also includes: a petition for...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Ethel Haslam (4); Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of the Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (18); Philip Allen [Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State] (5); E J Jones (8); Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (5th Baronet); E A Baker (secretary at the Ministry of Food) (5); J T S Lewis (secretary at the Ministry of Food) (4).Subjects include: deportation of internees; employment of aliens; housing shortages and...

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Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (7); Charles Kidman (10).Subjects include: de-requisitioning of houses; repair of bomb damage; the War Damage Contribution; requisitioning of local factories; exit permits to Ireland; release from the Forces.Also includes: a leaflet from the Indian Freedom Campaign.

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Correspondents include: Stanley B de Lacey (12); Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (17); Henry H Lassman (4).Subjects include: army surgeon training; War Damage Commission; road safety; Merchant Navy pensions; the mines ballot; building contracts; National Insurance; PAYE.Also includes: a statement issued by the National Federation of Building Trades Employers on advance preparation of housing sites.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (9); the 6th Lord Hood [Private Secretary to the Minister of Information]; General Sir Hastings Ismay [Chief of Staff to the Minister of Defence].Subjects include: material restrictions; requisitioning and de-requisitioning of houses; anti-tank weapons and membership of the Home Guard; censorship staff; the mines ballot; pension enquiries; Civil Defence...

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Subjects include: demobilization; settling the estates of officers in India; de-requisitioning; the housing shortage.Also includes: an inventory of the personal effects of an officer in India.

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Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodfood] (5); Mrs A Munn (6); A F Munn (5).Subjects include: evacuation to Colchester [Essex]; air raid shelters; de-requisitioning of houses; pension enquiries; war damage repair claims; call-up of building labour.

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Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (6).Subjects include: RAF demobilization; pension enquiries; requisitioning of houses; Italian prisoners of war; War Service grants; railway shares; internment of aliens; petrol allowances.Also includes: a cartoon postcard of WSC and Hitler; a song written by H Chadwick Palmer; a British Legion newsletter (spring 1945).

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Duncan Sandys [Financial Secretary of the War Office] on repatriation of British prisoners of war and sending food parcels to them; Thomas Poulter (6); Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (5); Lily Preston (10).Other subjects include: bomb damage repair; petrol allowances; de-requisitioning of houses; religion in WSC's "Thoughts and Adventures"; reference to a photograph of WSC in the snow...

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Subjects include: postponement of call-up; rehousing bombing victims.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (6); L R Prescott [Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister of Health] (5).Subjects include: rehousing evacuees; the Post-war Credit savings scheme; opposition to the new medical service (June 1944); bomb damage claims, repair and new housing; the extra London allowance for servicemen's dependants; the Location of Retail Businesses Order; requests for...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir Sydney Walter Robinson; Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (6); Duncan Sandys [Financial Secretary of the War Office]; Royal Wanstead School (6); R A Butler [Minister of Education] on the liability of teachers for military service.Other subjects include: RAF engineers' training; length of overseas service; bomb damage claims; air raid shelter prices; local gunpowder and small arms...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: 1st Lord Mottistone [earlier John Seely]; Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (9); S A Scoffin, Managing Director of Scoffin and Willmott Ltd, Manufacturing Engineers (5).Subjects include: age limits for Far Eastern service; the "Salute the Soldier" fund-raising campaign; pension enquiries; repair of bomb damage; requisitioning of housing; rehousing bombing victims.Also includes: WSC's...

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Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (12); Lieutenant Ralph Drummond, commanding officer of HMS/M Sickle (4); J Worsfold [Private Secretary to the Minister of Pensions] (5).Subjects include: the reinstatement of ex-servicemen in civil life; the Emergency Powers Act; the long service leave scheme; War Service Grants; HMS Churchill; HMS/M Sickle; rehousing bombing victims; repair of war damage.

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Correspondents include: David Skyrme-Jones (5); Frederick Bellenger.Subjects include: war damage claims; service pay enquiries; tax enquiries; rehousing bombing victims; naval pensions; prevention of foot-and-mouth disease; local air raid shelter provision.

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Correspondents include: M R J Stacey (5); Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (10).Subjects include: billeting of evacuees; use of clergy as teachers; repairs of bomb damage; rehousing bombing victims; internment of aliens.

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Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (10); L R Prescott [Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister of Health] (6).Subjects include: repair of bomb damage; evacuation; requisitioning of houses and the housing shortage; new housing and the green belt; women medical students.

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (11); F J Tucker (7); L R Prescott [Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister of Health] (5).Subjects include: RAF ground trades promotion system; cinema film rental; de-requisitioning of houses; local refuse collection; age limits for Far Eastern service; war damage claims and repair; call up of doctors; famine relief for Europe (particularly Greece).Also...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: Sir James Hawkey [Vice-Chairman of Epping Division Conservative Association and Mayor of Wanstead and Woodford] (13); E A Baker [secretary at the Ministry of Food] (4); I C Wilson (4).Subjects include: rehousing bomb victims; compassionate leave requests; defence bonds; war damage repair claims; tax allowances; pension enquiries; poultry feed rationing.Also includes: an extract from a House of Commons report on war damage to property; "The Surplus Women", a booklet by...

Scope and Contents Correspondents include: [Claud] Wright, [Principal] (3) and M L Elder (8) of the War Office; J H Hughes of the Air Ministry (9); constituent R W McOwen (5); Sir James Hawkey [Chairman of Woodford Conservative Association] (8); Leslie Rowan [Principal Private Secretary to Prime Minister Clement Attlee]; [Hugh] Farmar [Assistant Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Air] (2); Sir George Harvie Watt; Archie Moore, Surgeon to the London Hospital, on a constituent's health; Joyce Gordon...