My father, Ernest Samuel Payne, was captured in Thessolonika Greece. We lived in Goldington, near Bedford,...
Eventually the eggs & bacon would be sold back to the hotel — so the food went a full circle....
Before any of Ramsgate's well-known tunnels were built, we used St. George's Church crypt as an...
During the war I lived in a bungalow in Alexander Rd Capel le Ferne with my two sons, Tony who was just...
It got so bad in Birmingham we had to return to Ipswich, on the train home we had to stop just outside...
Because of the severe bombing I was evacuated to Guildford, Surrey where there was no bombing and as I was...
Alec and Lawrence had to use the syrupy top of the apple pie as a sweetener for the rest of the week...
When I went to secondary school at Streatham County Grammar in Welham Road, I remember getting off the tram...
Daylight revealed much activity and our road thick in clods of mud, windows broken, roofs and doors damaged...
I had a cousin called Basil who was shot down out of the sky over Germany and killed in those years... The...
My Dad was essential personnel, working on the aeroplanes at Coltishall. Sometimes they closed Coltishall...
School dinner times was greatly looked forward to with Corned beef pie, peas & gravy, jam roley poley...
Ration books 5-16 blue Food scarce — butter, sugar, ham, eggs, milk, fruit — all in short...
We left in September 1940 and from then until May 1941 Merseyside was subject to extremely heavy bombing,...
I remember the bombers going over, and Coventry being bombed. My father was in the army, stationed in...
That year my mother was taken ill and, for safety's sake, sent me and a very much younger sister away...
The 2 boys are now in bed, eight o'clock, having wandered round the deck ship etc. By the bicycles that...
The Clydebank Blitz in March of 1941 was the catalyst that set in motion the chain of events which...
We heard this whistling or screeching sound getting ever closer, and I recall my Uncle Percy, a World War...
My Dad was the Engineer at Harrops Mill in Gawthorpe and when the war came he joined the A.R.P.. He got a...
A German soldier was watching them with his binoculars. Another time I remember about twenty Spitfires...
I remember visiting my uncle in Tydd St. Giles in Lincolnshire where he worked on a farm....
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