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We eat six billion packets of the salty stuff every year, which is more than any other country in Western Europe, according to The Grocer. In 2021, almost 163,000 tons of crisps were sold across the UK, an all-time high since 2006, says Statista. Packets were taken to WW2 bomb shelters to boost morale during the Blitz. We adore the savoury snack so much, there's even a day dedicated to celebrate them: National Crisp Day on March 14.
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Scottish Sun
25-05-2025
- Scottish Sun
We spent years tracking down WW2 hero to return heirloom my grandad kept for safe keeping – what we discovered amazed us
Debbie opened up about the moment when she picked up the phone to call the watch's owners AMATEUR SLEUTHS We spent years tracking down WW2 hero to return heirloom my grandad kept for safe keeping – what we discovered amazed us Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) AFTER years of safeguarding a watch given to her grandfather in the Second World War, two sisters have finally tracked down its owners. Amateur sleuths Debbie Blaxhall and Tracey Stevenson's quest to find the heirloom's owners took them on a journey from the 1940s to a lavish lunch celebrating the 80th anniversary of VE Day earlier this month. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 5 Debbie Blaxhall (left) with Janet Hunt (centre) and her granddaughter Naomi Hunt Credit: Ancestry 5 Arnold Sharrock, the watch's owner, was honoured at a VE celebration Credit: Ancestry 5 A card was the key to finding Arnold's address Credit: ©The National Archives Speaking to The Sun, she revealed how enabled her to do the 'right thing' for her grandparents. The story began back in World War Two, when Debbie's grandfather, Richard Houseman, first met another soldier named Arnold Sharrocks. Stationed near Middlesborough, the pair quickly became friends but were sadly separated when Arnold was posted elsewhere. As a parting gift to Richard and his wife Naomi, Arnold left his pocketwatch for safekeeping along with a note which read: 'Best wishes, Arnold.' Read More on Second World War FLY THE FLAG VE Day for kids: Facts about World War Two and how it ended, explained Neither one ever saw the other again. For years, that was all Debbie, now 59, knew about the mysterious watch, which had become legendary in her family. However, Debbie and her sister Tracey, 62, knew that, one day, they would have to help the watch find its way home. Debbie said: 'We were only looking after it for someone else. We could never dispose of it because we wanted to carry on that legacy.' The former nurse has always had an interest in her family history, but finally decided to send the watch home when Tracey found it in her late husband's belongings. They decided to reach out to Ancestry's military genealogist Simon Pierce for help. World War Two veterans come together to mark the 80th anniversary of their victory At first they hit a dead end, but then, a medal card - found by Simon - allowed Debbie to uncover that Arnold had married a lady called Joyce Finch. From there, she managed to find Janet Hunt, 64, Arnold's daughter, who also had an account on Debbie said she nervously deliberated for days about phoning Janet, but eventually 'bit the bullet'. When the line connected, though, she realised that Janet had no idea about the watch. She said: 'The poor woman; I honestly don't know what she thought, because I knew the story. 'She didn't have a clue, so I was trying to explain who I was and that I had her father's watch." Debbie added: 'I think it took a few days for it to sink in with her, but we were finally able to send her father's watch in February.' Welling up as Tracey finally let go of the watch which had meant so much to them, Debbie had one overriding feeling. Through tears, she said: 'It's going home.' decided to organise a meeting between Debbie and Janet at a fabulous VE Day party in London, in May 2025, but there was one final twist in the story. Debbie said: 'Janet and I thought we were actually going to meet at lunch, but we actually met at breakfast in the hotel where we were both staying.' She added: 'Her daughter said: 'I think this is them.' 'And I was saying the same to my husband, and eventually I just said: 'Yeah, it's us.' 'So we hugged and I just cried. But it's the fact that her daughter is called Naomi, the same name as my grandmother.' In another surprise, Debbie and Janet realised that they only lived 22 miles away from each other in Sussex. Arnold, and 79 other 'hidden heroes', were honoured with a commemorative plate at the lunch later that day. Debbie said: 'Each plate had a little plaque about the story that was represented. And they were all incredible. 'You just think these were all just normal people going about their lives, daily lives or doing their bit for the war. They were the hidden heroes. And it didn't just cover people in the armed forces. There were scouts, there were children who had done great things. 'There were a lot of women represented too, which was really lovely.' Janet revealed that Arnold had served with the 103rd Light Anti-Aircraft regiment - earning the France and German star for his heroic efforts. Stationed at first in the UK and, then, later in Europe, he also served in the Corps of Military Police. For Debbie, the journey has brought her grandparents 'back to life for a little while' as well as Arnold - who survived the war but sadly died when Debbie was nine. She doesn't know why he never came back for the watch, with the entire endeavour having 'raised more questions" for her "than it answered'. Now in regular contact with Janet, Debbie is considering a career in "genealogy" to find out more about her family tree. Still, she is thrilled to say that handing the watch back to its owners has changed her life. Debbie said: "We adored our grandparents and just being able to complete something that they'd set out to do, it means the absolute world to us." Do you have a similar story? Email 5 From his records, Debbie was able to find out that Arnold had a daughter named Janet Credit: ©The Royal Artillery Museum
Belfast Telegraph
24-05-2025
- Belfast Telegraph
Lest we forget: The 939 names set to be honoured on new Belfast Blitz memorial in city centre
Plans for the memorial had been discussed in 2019, and will now become part of Belfast City Council's plans for the transformation of Cathedral Gardens, the area between St Anne's Cathedral and Ulster University's Belfast campus. Northern Ireland War Memorial (NIWM) has been working in partnership with the council to create the memorial, which will include 937 names of the victims who died in four separate raids by the German Air Force during April and May 1941. Manager at the museum, Keith Beattie, said the expectation is that the monument will be in place by the end of 2026. 'We have had great public support for this,' he said. 'The sculpture will be the final piece in the plan for Cathedral Gardens and the timing of the unveiling will be dependent on how quickly those plans can proceed. But to limit the possibility of any damage from the works in the area, it will be the final installation. 'We're very excited. And what we will have when the work is finished is a wonderful place for people to visit, sit and reflect, and a fitting tribute to all those who died in 1941. 'Next year, we will be holding separate events to mark the 85th anniversary of the blitz and while this sculpture will form the centrepiece of the new gardens, we want to make sure it's exactly what the people of Belfast want. 'We have waited some time to be able to bring this plan to fruition and I believe it will all be worth it and a fitting memorial to the Blitz when it's complete.' The design is being kept under wraps for now, but will take the form of a sculpted monument, inscribed with the names of all those known to have died. The names to be included on the memorial have been compiled using official sources and government records. Luftwaffe bombers honed in on strategically selected targets of industrial and military importance across the city. Over the course of four nights, the German bombers attacked many of these targets but it was working-class residents in the city who paid the highest price. In particular, neighbourhoods in north Belfast and east Belfast suffered. Tightly packed, poorly built housing was no match for the high-explosive bombs, parachute mines and incendiary bombs of the Luftwaffe. The youngest victim was six-week-old William John Wallace who lost his life during the Easter Tuesday Raid at Eastland Street. His father William, aunt Annie and cousin David were also killed. Don Bigger, chair of NIWM, said the Blitz decimated Belfast — one of 17 major UK cities targeted, along with many smaller towns, in 1941. 'This memorial will be a compelling monument to a tragic time in Belfast's history,' he said. 'There were four nights of German bombing and they are remembered as the Dockside Raid (April 7-8), Easter Tuesday Raid (April 15-16), Fire Raid (May 4-5) and the Final Raid (May 5-6). 'The impact was devastating and the new memorial will recognise those who were killed 'as a direct result of enemy action' in the city. 'A total of 937 fatal casualties have already been identified and NIWM is working with Blitz historians Alan Freeburn and Dr Brian Barton to establish a definitive list of people who lost their lives as a result of these raids. 'Elsewhere in Northern Ireland, on the night of Easter Tuesday, a further 32 died due to German bombing in Derry/Londonderry, Bangor and Newtownards. In time, NIWM is also hoping to support memorials to mark these raids.' Belfast Lord Mayor Micky Murray said the Cathedral Gardens Memorial will provide the perfect location for people to meet and reflect. 'It's right and fitting that we remember all those who lost their lives in these devastating raids on our city,' he said. 'Our plan for Cathedral Gardens is that it becomes an easily accessible place, where everyone is welcome to meet up to relax, enjoy entertainment, or simply take in the beauty of a new living landscape and urban forest. 'Hopefully, in creating this Blitz Memorial and siting it in Cathedral Gardens, we will not only honour these Belfast residents, but also provide pause for reflection on the pointless destruction that war brings at a time when conflict sadly continues in many parts of the world.' Watch: Story of how Belfast Zoo's baby elephant was kept in backyard of house during Second World War Blitz Mr Murray said there may be other names of those who died during the Blitz who could still be added to the memorial. 'I urge those who know people whose name may not be on this list to contact NIWM with supporting evidence; and those who may have memories of this time as a child — or who have heard family stories passed down through the generations — to get in touch so that NIWM can document these through interviews,' he added. If you think a victim of the raids has been omitted, email supporting evidence to NIWM at info@ before June 30 Names of those to be remembered on Belfast Blitz memorial Addis, Mary Addis, Sarah Aicken, Alexander Aitken, Jane Allister, Martha Anderson, Elizabeth Anderson, Isabella Anderson, Mary Ann Anderson, William John Andrews, David Harold Andrews, Mary Armstrong, Martin Robert Artt, Isabella Ash, Stanley George Atcheson, Eliza Baird, David Baird, Murdugh George Ball, Samuel Ballance, Agnes Ballantine, Ethel Ballantine, William Vincent Balmer, James Barr, James Alexander Barr, Jeannie Barr, William Cathcart Beattie, James Beattie, James Beech, Margaret Eileen Williamson Beggs, Phyllis Irene Bell, Hannah Bell, John Bell, Joseph Bell, Thomas George Belshaw, Robert Bennett, Catherine Bennett, Robert Benton, William Bill, Thomas Bingham, Thomas Black, Annie Black, Eva Black, Evelyn Black, Hazel Black, Hessie Black, James Black, James Black, Mary Blankney, Roland Bleakley, Matilda Violet Bleakley, Thomas William Boal, George Boal, Winifred Bonnell, Hugh Emrys Bothwell, David Edward Bothwell, Ernest Bothwell, Lily Mary Bothwell, Peggy Mary Boyd, Edith Boyd, Elias Jones Boyd, Elizabeth Kate Boyd, Hugh Boyd, Jessie Boyd, Sarah Jane Bradley, Everhilda Bradley, Margaret Bradley, Sydney Bradshaw, Annie Bradshaw, David Kennedy Brady, George Robert Brady, Mary Braniff, William Brennan, Margaret Briggs, James Briggs, Leonard Briggs, Leonard Briggs, Rowland William Brooker, Herbert Montague Brookes, Wilfrid Mark Hamilton Brothers, Margaret Brown, Elizabeth Jane Brown, Florence Edna Brown, Georgina Brown, Georgina Brown, Henry Brown, James Brown, John Brown, Margaret Jane Brown, Mary Jane Brown, Rachel Brown, Sarah Brown, Stephen Brown, William Alexander Browne, Annie English Browne, William Thomas Bullock, Robert Burbage, Montague James Burdett, Dorothy Kathleen Burleigh, Betty Burton, Sarah Byrne, Eliza Sarah Caldwell, Francis Ernest Cameron, Annie Campbell, Arthur McLean Campbell, Elizabeth May Campbell, Hugh Campbell, Margaret Campbell, Margaret Christina Campbell, Roberta Carleton, Dona Carroll, Thomas William Carson, Edward Carson, Eileen Carson, Martha Carter, Alice Carter, Joseph Carter, Joseph Carter, Kathleen Carter, Mary Carter, Mary Ann Carter, Sarah Cash, Mary Ann Castles, Hugh Christian, Leonard Charles Christy, James Christy, Margaret Christy, Margaret Sylvia Church, Hannah Cinnamond, Arthur Moore Clarke, Cecil Clarke, David Clarke, Desmond Clarke, James Henry Clarke, Jeremiah Clarke, Jeremiah Clarke, John Clarke, Lavina Clarke, Mabel Alexandra Clarke, Robert Clarke, William Close, Albert Close, Mary Jane Close, William Cobain, Elizabeth Maud Cobble, Edward William Cochrane, Gertrude Cole, Patrick Conlon, James Connelly, Annie Connelly, Charlotte Connelly, James Connolly, John Convery, Jane Cooke, David McKee Cooke, Ernest Victor Cooke, John Cooke, Mary Anne Cooke, Mary Jane Cooke, Thomas Coombs, Frank Mundy Corr, Annie Corr, Frederick Corr, Mary Ann Corry, Elizabeth Corry, Henry Corry, Martha Corry, Samuel Costello, Mary Ann Costello, Stephen Craig, Rebecca Craig, Robert Creighton, John Creighton, Rachel Crossan, David Crothers, Alexander Crothers, Raymond Crotty, Mary Ann Cuffe, Denis Patrick James Curran, Patrick Curran, William Curry, William John Danby, Alice Danby, Arthur Danby, Emily Danby, John Danby, John Robert Danby, Kathleen Danby, Olga Danby, Peter Darragh, Margaret Davey, Henry Davey, Matilda Davidson, Jane Davison, John Deering, Martha Elizabeth Deering, Mary Dempster, Agnes Dempster, Agnes Ruby Dempster, Ellen Dempster, Robert Denby, Dorothy Ethel Denby, Harriette Macredie Denby, Isabella Denby, William Henry Dennant, Eric Doherty, James Doherty, Mary Doherty, Mary Christina Doherty, Sarah Doherty, Susan Dojan, Donald Dojan, John Donnelly, Annie Donnelly, Arthur Donnelly, Bessie Donnelly, Hugh Donnelly, Joseph Michael Donnelly, Maggie Donnelly, Marie Donnelly, Mary Donnelly, Patrick Donnelly, Robert 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The Sun
18-05-2025
- The Sun
Mystery of Hitler's secret tunnel labyrinth in Poland where 5,000 workers died… and no one knows why it was built
A SECRET underground Nazi complex that was never completed remains a mystery as no one knows for certain why Adolf Hitler's genocidal regime built it. The Third Reich began to build a gigantic subterranean bunker with Jewish slave labour in what was then Germany at the end of WW2 - known as Project Riese. 13 13 13 13 Tragically, 5,000 workers died after they were brought from the nearby Gross-Rosen concentration camp to begin work in 1943. Riese means Giant in German - a code name which represents the Nazi's ambition with the project. But the cavernous tunnels in modern southwestern Poland are now harmless and have become a tourist destination. There are seven underground complexes that make up Project Riese in Poland's Owl Mountains - with the City of Osówka just one of the locations. Zdzisław Łazanowski - a guide at the City of Osówka - told The Sun the project could have been the secretive future HQ for the Reich's evil Chancellor. He said: "Our best idea is that it was meant to be the headquarters of the army... and also the headquarters for the main person in the Third Reich - Adolf Hitler." But as the allies advanced on Germany, the purpose of Riese changed and the underground tunnels were used to build weapons. None of the complexes were ever fully completed by the Nazis and Łazanowski said they haven't all been explored. He said: "We've explored eight and a half kilometres, but we know about two places where they [tunnels] were destroyed. "There are lots of loose rocks and we need to dig about two metres, through a lot of loose rocks, to get to the tunnels." Hitler's Final Hours: Russian Archives Reveal New Evidence 80 Years Later Nazi papers found in Prague following the war say that Riese needed another year of work by slave labourers to finish it. Łazanowski said: "When we host our guests from all the world, we tell them that we are now at a building site, and we can see the the the situation that was left when the Germans left." Osówka was almost completed and has railroads, mess halls, and power generators built in an underground grid of 1.1miles (1.8km) long. There is also the bones of a concrete hall 10 metres high with a shaft for an elevator to service 16 planned floors. 13 13 13 Another bizarre structure is a concrete monolith with dozens of pipes, drains, and culverts, buried into the rock at least 14.7ft (4.5m). There is also a unconnected shaft that contains a dam and hydraulic equipment - but for an unknown purpose. Other sites in the complex would have hosted underground weapons factories - had they been finished. There's even a testing area where the Nazis would have worked on developing the V1 and V2 rockets. Łazanowski said Riese would have been built into the mountain to protect it from bombers - similar to America's Cheyenne Mountain Complex. Some believe the tunnels are also hiding the fabled Nazi gold train. 13 13 13 The legend comes from a Pole who worked in the mine after the end of the war, according to Łazanowski. Germans living in the area told the Pole that one train had collected all the precious items from the neighbouring villages and gone into the underground complex to hide from the advancing Soviets. The Pole became so obsessed by the story that he rode through the tunnels on trains to try and find the treasure. Łazanowski said they had not found the gold train inside the tunnels. "But there are documents that say in the middle of January 1945 the Germans moved their money from the bank in Wroclaw... but we don't know if it was put on the train." A detailed letter was sent to Polish authorities last month claiming to finally reveal the alleged train's long-lost location. 13 13 13 The anonymous tipster claimed to have uncovered train wagons hidden in a tunnel in the Owl Mountains. Others think the tunnels could be the place where the Nazis stashed the Amber Room. The Amber Room - also sometimes referred to as the eighth wonder of the world - was one of Russia's most treasured artefacts until it was looted by the Nazis from its palace home near Saint Petersburg and lost forever. It had been installed at the Berlin City Palace and gifted by Prussian King Frederick William I to the Russian Empire in 1716. The tunnels are not thought to have been visited by Hitler, but his infamous architect and minister for weapons production Albert Speer did. Łazanowski said the tunnels were an important historical site because they were a sad memorial to the people that built them. Riese's builders were prisoners from Gross-Rosen concentration camp including Jews, Poles, and POWs. Łazanowski said: "Our aim is to show people who come here to visit this place, show them the whole view of the working site, of the achievements, of the the Germans completed the idea of this place. "But we also mention, and that's the big part of our job, to tell the visitors about the history of people who are building this place, not just the people who planted this place, but the people who were digging out the rocks and were doing this cruel work for the to track." The Red Army stormed through the Owl Mountains on May 8, 1945 - a day after the Nazis abandoned Project Riese. But the Russians didn't use the site, instead looting anything that could be carried back to Russia like drills or power generators. A LOST city of underground bunkers built by the Nazis on the Dutch coast during the Second World War has been laid bare in these astonishing pictures. The bunkers, tunnels, living quarters and stores run throughout the coastline near The Hague and run deep under the city itself. Its builders named it the "string of pearls" and, with the aid of original German army blueprints, they are now being restored to their original condition by military enthusiasts and archaeologists so future generations can visit. Many of the bunkers were re-discovered when sands facing the North Sea shifted for the first time since the end of the war. They were constructed by legions of Dutch slave labourers and German army engineers as part of the Atlantic Wall Hitler constructed from Norway to the Bay of Biscay in France in a bid to thwart Allied invasion plans of his "Fortress Europe".
