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3 May 1941 a public shelter in the basement of Wilkinson's lemonade
factory, North Shields, was destroyed by a direct hit from a single
German bomb. 103 people died, the worst wartime incident in the North
of England. One of the rescue party was the father of young Robert Westall. This multi-media project is the result of a successful bid to the DFEE Museums and Galleries Education Programme. We seek to encourage cooperation between history and English departments in years 7-9 and to support the implementation of the literacy strategy at Key Stage 3. This is achieved by the analysis of fiction and non-fiction texts, linking Westall's exciting novel The Machine Gunners with supporting archival material from the Home Front. An exciting additional aspect is provided by the recollections of over a dozen survivors and relatives of casualties. Westall's War is radical in the presentation of education materials in printed and ITC formats.
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