Times Past Quiz (anagrams)

[val-south]

Does anyone know what the anagram YEWS stands for? Many thanks in advance.

[tommy-h]

do you mean acronym?

[tommy-h]

could be youth encounter weekend s

[Frank97]

One of these maybe
http://www.acronymgeek.com/YEWS

[penelope2]

Plenty of definitions for the acronym YEWS on Google.

[tommy-h]

could be weys-an archaic measure of weight

[bert_h]

During the war, there were huge brick blockhouses in some streets with EWS on the side in big black letters for Emergency Water Supply, in case bombs had damaged the water mains. I only just remember them. But sorry - the Y in front has me stumped.