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A Yorkshire Schoolgirl

By 1947 I was bolder as asked permission to sell poppies at 鈥渢he Camp鈥 鈥 this was a POW...

War Time 21.6.44: V1 in Carshalton

Mum and Dad went back to the bomb site and told them we we safe as we had been re-united in Poulters...

Evacuated to Henley on Thames

I was evacuated on 1/9/1939 to Henley on Thames but when we got there they were no billets for us due to...

Waiting For Liberation - The Last Day

I passed the AA gun battery opposite the tram sheds, which I had passed every day for months going to...

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Book Written At School 1941......Part Four - New Clothes From Oldicon for Story with photo

They can be cleaned by the simple method of washing, whereas kid and nappa gloves must be sent away must be...

After a Bomb Fell - Romford

Mother and I visited a friend whose bungalow was badly damaged by a bomb, all doors & windows had gone,...

The Air Raid Shelter, Winchmore Hill

In one corner were two bunks built for myself and the girld next door together with a curtain for privacy...

Mrs Brown's Story: In Liverpool

I lived in Fazakerley, Hawksmoor Rd and later on, Longmoor lane on the corner of Dereham Cresent. Aunty...

The day the evacuees came.

The next morning found me, with my friend Jill, in the wide main corridor which was lined with tressle...

My Football

At Christmas 1943 I had been given a size 5 leather football, which due to War shortages was like gold dust...

My Grandmother and the War

Search lights were constantly monitoring the Sydney Harbour Bridge, and my grandmother remembers a midget...

Staying with Auntie Evelyn

My parents had a pig and poultry farm and were kept busy producing food and so I spent parts of my summer...

Memories of World War 2icon for Story with photo

At the bottom of our garden a narrow lane separated the railway from Folkestone Harbour to the main line....

A Child's Memories

On Easter Sunday 1941 we went to visit my aunts in Waringstown as we always did at Easter. On Monday the...

My Memories of the War in India and My Uncle鈥檚 Fortune in Scotland by Mr S E Ali

My Memories of the War in India and My Uncle's Fortune in Scotland by Mr S E Ali. My Uncle's...

A Child's Memories of the War

I well remember being evacuated with my two brothers to a village about 20 miles away carrying our tins of...

Gilbert Dowle's Story

My most vivid recollection during this time was when the big German bomb fell in Ditch Wood, which is...

Longing for the Air Raid Siren to Go Off! Schooldays in South Harrow

Then my wickedness in hoping for an Air Raid Siren revisited me.... the Doodle Bugs started and Saturday...

My War: Evacuated from Harwich to Thornbury Part 2

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A Boy in Melton Mowbray

There was a small crack in my window pane and when the bomb fell, although I did not hear the explosion,...

Evacuee!:London to Kent

Before we were evacuated from Lee, in South-east London, we had to take sandwiches to School every day, in...

Springbourne Ladies Remember (Doreen & Jean)

At the Corn Exchange in the town, Doreen and her brother were the last two children to be chosen. Doreen...

A School in Our Front Room

When we had the Bradford bombing, we had a bomb four doors away and our windows were blown out. I was...

Lasting Memories

We were evacuated to Kings Lynn in Norfolk, and for the first four weeks we were billeted with a very...

The Evacuee Nobody Wanted

The bus was full of children, who had been evacuated from Salford, and the headmistress of St Nicholas...

Memories of a Dried-Egg Lover!

Lutterworth I remember that there were many troops going through the town. There was also the cinema in...

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