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ID	Description
392	WW1 Parcels for POWs, Warrington, researched by U3A Family History Group. We transcribed onto two databases the entries in six ledgers, found in Warrington Museum Archives, detailing the sending of bread, tobacco, and food parcels to soldiers from the South Lancashire Regiment held in Germany as Prisoners of War towards the end of World War 1. The parcels were sent out by the local Regimental Care Committee under the auspices of the Red Cross, and paid for by public subscriptions and sponsorship. We carried out much research into the contents of the parcels, conditions in the camps, the fund-raising events organised in the town, the identity of the sponsors (whose details formed the substance of the second database). The research was then given as a presentation to the Family History Group and compiled into a printed booklet, copies of which were given to the Museum, the Regimental Museum, and Warrington U3A, and were bought by some members of the group.
559	Acting Up; a collaboration between a theatre company and six U3As in the north west. They produced monologues, dialogues and sketches which were performed for an audience.
675	Warrington U3A family history group have transcribed a 90 page hand written diary of a working class man in 1886, chronicling his daily activities and giving monthly accounts of his personal income and expenditure and of his money lending activities.
676	Warrington U3A's Family History Transcription Group has transcribed two volumes of police records from the beginning of 20th century, one a Register of Warrants, and a second one of Robberies. These will both be compiled into publicly searchable electronic databases.
960	Some Outdoor Poor Relief records for Warrington from the late 18th Century have been digitised by the Transcription Group attached to Warrington u3a Family History Group.
1074	Experiences of COVID lockdowns on Family History Group members and their young relatives, have been compiled into a booklet by Warrington u3a Family History Group.
1084	Family History 'Hints, Tips and Information' Booklet compiled by Warrington u3a Family History Group.
1086	Collection of WW2 memories by members of Warrington u3a Family History Group, portraying the roles that their parents and other ancestors carried out, whether military or civilian, but with the emphasis on the many civilian tasks undertaken - eg Home Guard, Air Raid Precautions wardens etc.