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We had taken in lots of evacuees, so there were six children in the house... In the days that followed I...
I went to All Souls R.C School in Weaste which got bombed... As a result of the damage we had to go...
I was born in 1936 and lived with my parents and younger sister in Norbury, SW London. Norbury is close to...
We were goin gto become engaged at Christmas, but he had decided to buy the ring that day. We then went...
The morning after the blitz I had to walk to work through a devistated Coventry... One day at the fire...
I found a candle in my room, lit it and rested it on an old creaky chair with springs popping out of...
The same night my father in law's church was bombed — raised to the ground... I went to my mother...
The first memory that I recall clearly was just before the outbreak of hostilities and I remember being in...
I was six when war broke out, evacuated to Essex, but after seven months stuck in the country, my mother...
My two most vivid memories of World War II are the nights when incendiary bombs hit the Tate and Lyle sugar...
I was a nine year old boy at the start of the London blitz, living with my mother and older brother in...
As he came up Burlington street to return home the siren went, it was in that raid that Julian rod and St....
We had defences along the cliffs - but really all it was was 4 inch drain pipes, they were there as a...
I was 12 when war started, I used to travel to Oldham on what they called the Delph Donkey... My mother had...
He had reported back to Reichsmarschall Goering that following the attack no more ships would be built on...
This story takes place in Rochester when I worked for Short Brothers In August 1940 I was working on...
My sister and I were in bed, the sirens went and our parents called for us to come down to the shelter....
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Blanche Merralls was then old enough to start work in an ordnance factory, parcelling military uniforms...
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