ONE YEAR, ONE DAY, ONE PLACE

Iarrived on Mill Lane, Shoreham-by-Sea, as a newborn baby in 1941 two years after the 1939 National Register had been taken, and spent the first 18 years of my life there. I knew it so well and of course some of the people who were living there in 1939 were still there in the 1950s and 60s. I became interested to learn more about them and their lives.

The year 1939 & the day

Following the onset of war in September 1939 a register was taken of the civilian population with the purpose of producing a National Identity Card. Later it was to become multifunctional, first as an aid in the use of ration cards and later helping officials to record the movement of the