Dad, who was a full time warden, gave instructions to come straight back home and NOT to go to the Brick...
Today is the last day for writing about our wartime meals which are for today fatbread, bacon, two cups of...
We had identification pinned on the back of our jackets. A small rucksack contained the bare essentials of clothing and cheese and a packet of Jacob's biscuits...
As a child,I remember the siren would go and my mother would put me in my siren suit, which was a suit...
I have always thought that I had been born in Winchelsea, registered in Trowbridge in Sussex... After...
I was nine years old when war was declared and lived in the country on a four acre smallholding managed by...
As a child prior to D-Day, I lived with my parents at Salmon Pool Railway Crossing, the village of Uton,...
My mum and dad sent me to my Aunt and Uncle on the outskirts of Barrow, which was a safer area... Then...
Elsie was 11 years old, and with two sisters, one twelve years old and one just five years old.They were...
As Peter and I reached Gypsy corner, by the end of Frizzams Lane, we saw a very tall man on a very...
The bombing had stopped so my mum, together with lots of other parents, thought it was safe to bring myself...
After the Blitz there was no water as they had destroyed the pipes - we were very lucky in our street, the...
My father's sister and brother lived in Jersey during the occupation and I can remember them coming...
Doncaster was surrounded by bomber stations, and all we little kids were used to the various engine noises...
While bombs were falling, sirens wailing, people running, screaming, in distant parts of the country, Pete,...
One Friday morning I was playing in the garden of my home in New Eltham, South East London. The house was...
The first one fell in the orchard at the back of Bucks field, it's a council estate now, another one...
We went to school at Didlington Hall which we shared with evacuee children... The owner of Didlington Hall...
There was a RAF station down the lane opposite our house in Swansea, and my mother put some of the RAF...
Two men were killed that day when the factory was bombed... Apparently they had decided to bomb the whole...
I met my future husband HARRY TAYLOR in 1942 at an ATC dance held at AUDENSHAW GRAMMAR SCHOOL, he lived in...
At Pately Bridge we used to visit Grantley Hall, where Canadian casualties where on convalescence. If the...
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