This did cause some consternation to my parents when I sauntered into the kitchen and placed it on the...
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I was born and grew up with my Mum, Dad, sister and brother, in East London 鈥 Bow E.3 and Bethnal...
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Village children went in the morning, and Londoners in the afternoon... Nothing was happening in London so...
Mother didn't want to go as the night before she had listened to William Joyce who broadcast propaganda...
On Sunday 29th December 1940, at the end of the Christmas holiday spent at home in Bradford, I had to...
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My two older sisters and I were assembled with a large group of other children at Mount Carmel school,...
Our home was in a small street in Canning Town called Elphic Street very close to the London Docks and East...
No.. not serious ones but there was a few casualties there, there was a lot of incendiary bombs as well...
We at this time were having numerous raids over Swansea, and the surrounding areas but these were nothing...
Give them hell.'' It was only after the war that I learnt that Churchill had ordered Bomber Command...
Also during this raid the house three doors away from Author had a direct hit with an incendiary bomb on...
I joined the secretarial staff of Barclays Bank, 54 Lombard Street, London, in 1938 aged almost 17 and even...
This shop was famous for those savory pasties and they were always in great demand by our people in their...
Her husband, my 鈥渟tep grandfather鈥 was my Uncle Jack, a marvellous gentleman, who was about 60...
The Wellpark West Church had a whole lot of things stored and that was to be for mothers and children if...
We stopped in a pub in Southgate I think the Rising Sun from the garden looking to the east the sky was...
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