Edward was looking in Picton library recently and came across a chapter in a book on the blitz and Mrs Taft...
It was around the time of Dunkirk and a policeman knocked on our door... The policeman said, 'Hello...
My Father must have been working on the night shift at British Celanese Leaving Mother to look after us.We...
I was born and lived in the Police Station at Pontardulais, Glamorgan. The war continued the toll of losses...
I went to a public school and we were evacuated with the school to a country Mansion in Culham,...
The marines were at the Collingwood Hotel, the Pegcall were at Ilfracombe hotel, the wrens had the mount...
Mum was ill with quinsy and I was taking care of her, even though I was only eight years old. I just...
During the bad winter in very deep snow I walked to Burnage where my boyfriend lived then and from there we...
Molotov Cocktails – the LVD issued their members with Molotov Cocktails that were stored in the...
Two air raid shelters were erected in our street - my family lived in Middlesbrough as my father was a...
The newspapers talk of Adolf Hitler and his No. 2 Hess, the man with green eyes. we go to Norwich city my...
We lived in Plumstead in south east London.Quite a few of the adults in my area worked at the Woolwich...
27 — Roma Innes, and Dorothy and Nigel Whateley lived at Shottery Post Office during the War: Emmy...
As a school girl aged 13 at home with my parents, brother and sister we lived very near to Oldbury Hall...
My cousin George William, confined now in a German POW camp, informed my mother in one of his letters that...
My name is Alfred George Hobbs and I was born seventy years ago in Marylebone Street, Portsmouth. I was...
Pat and her sister, Irene, has been billeted with another person in Gunnislake but they weren't very...
I was evacuated with my brother in 1944 from Hornchurch to Pen-y-cae, near Wrexham in North Wales. When we...
FRom my bedroom window I looked out to the famous Kinder Scout pass - a very different view from my bedroom...
My mother, two brothers and sister were living in North London at the time... I and Patrick went into a...
With the unmitigated cruelty of warring siblings, the Anderson became a place of enforced imprisonment post...
I lived in Adswood and remember an aircraft of the USAAF making a forced landing on Clutha Road playing...