Certificate with instructions issued in September of 1939 to nationals of enemy countries who were living in Britain at the outbreak of World War II. The Aliens Act required all aliens to register with the police and, as war was declared, these people were subsequently interned (imprisoned). Many Lambeth internees were held at Brixton Prison or at the Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum on Wandsworth Common.From a series of albums containing newspaper and magazine clippings, assorted ephemera and a diary, kept by Mrs Lucy Awdry of 14 Franconia Road, Clapham, for the duration of World War II and recording wartime life in London. During the war Mrs Awdry volunteered with the Women’s Voluntary Service (WVS) assisting with fire watch duties and also at the Clapham War Savings Centre. From the Lambeth Archives Home Front project 2005.Ref: IV\/169\/Vol.I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Certificate with instructions issued in September of 1939 to nationals of enemy countries who were living in Britain at the outbreak of World War II. The Aliens Act required all aliens to register with the police and, as war was declared, these people were subsequently interned (imprisoned). Many Lambeth internees were held at Brixton Prison […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,286,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1926-1950","category-awdry_collection","category-war-and-armed-forces"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n