Part 16 – Who lived in your flat? Cranworth Gardens on the 1939 Register

The 1939 Register, taken on 29 September 1939, provides a snapshot of the civilian population of England and Wales just after the outbreak of the Second World War. Details of around 40 million people were recorded in in more than 65,000 volumes. 

The information was used to produce Identity Cards and, once rationing was introduced in January 1940, to facilitate the issuing of ration books. 

As the 1931 census for England and Wales was destroyed by fire during the Second World War and no census was taken in 1941, the 1939 Register provides the most complete survey of the population of England and Wales between 1921 and 1951. 

Click on each flat below to find out who lived there in 1939:

1 to 6 Cranworth Gardens 7 to 12 Cranworth Gardens 13 to 18 Cranworth Gardens 19 to 24 Cranworth Gardens 25 to 30 Cranworth Gardens 31 to 36 Cranworth Gardens 37 to 42 Cranworth Gardens 43 to 48 Cranworth Gardens 49 to 54 Cranworth Gardens 55 to 60 Cranworth Gardens 61 to 66 Cranworth Gardens 67 to 69 Cranworth Gardens 70 to 75 Cranworth Gardens 76 to 81 Cranworth Gardens 82 to 84 Cranworth Gardens 85 to 90 Cranworth Gardens 91 to 96 Cranworth Gardens 97 to 102 Cranworth Gardens 103 to 108 Cranworth Gardens 109 to 114 Cranworth Gardens 115 to 120 Cranworth Gardens 121 to 126 Cranworth Gardens 127 to 132 Cranworth Gardens 133 to 138 Cranworth Gardens 139 to 144 Cranworth Gardens 145 to 150 Cranworth Gardens

© Crown Copyright Images reproduced by courtesy of The National Archives, London, England.