A WINSTON CHURCHILL 'WAR WEAPONS WEEK' DAILY INDICATOR

A WINSTON CHURCHILL 'WAR WEAPONS WEEK' DAILY INDICATOR,
c.1940s, a painted shaped rectangular wooden sign noting Woodford and District's Winston Churchill collection towards WW2 weapons,
123 x 27cm

Sir Winston Churchill was elected as Epping, Division's MP in 1924, which incorporated both the areas of Epping and Woodford, and served Woodford Division from 1945. Churchill was aided by Woodford Urban District Council chairman, Alfred James Hawkey, the namesake of Sir James Hawkey Hall,, in Broomhill Road, Woodford Green, which Churchill opened in 1955.

Chigwell held a War Weapons Week in June 1941, with Churchill as the president, and it raised more than £900,000. Later events, including a Churchill Week in Woodford, made, thousands more for the war effort. A Churchill Tank Week collected £265,108, the cost of 13 tanks.

The politician's representation of the Woodford area remained a constant throughout the highs and lows of his extraordinary career.