We were growing to love this family we had acquired.A Mutual fond relationship was developing.They were...
Porridge for breakfast, spam for lunch and the occasional egg made up our meals... Dick Barton,Special...
My earliest recollection of the war was standing in the garden in Dalmally Road and watching a doodlebug...
In 1939 my grandparents were farmers in the little village of Calthwaite, in Cumbria... German and Italian...
My Grandma was 8 when the war started, she was the oldest of 5 children.Her father was in the Scott's...
My father joined the Royal Navy in 1913 and served during the First World War. My auntie worked on making...
Some afternoons we played games and some they other places around Oxford where they could accomodate us for...
We lived in other people's houses, Mum and I; Some untidy, others neat unto obsession; Some smelled of...
I hated cheese myself, but because she was such a greedy person we sat at the table, my dad and I. My...
Suddenly the unmistakeable rasping staccato sound of a German flying bomb was heard... The flying bomb had...
I too lived in Rhyl during WW2 not very far from Splash Point, and remember well the bombing of Liverpool,...
We lived in a block of council flates in Hornsey Lane on the day war was declared in 1939 all the women...
By the time my mum and dad got home the there where so many bombs dropping it was too dangerous to go...
In The buildup to D Day the ladies of the area around High Street South, Norman Road, Londsdale Road, all...
On D Day Jean was 16 years old and remembers roller skating from chapel. Jean had a blouse made out of...
One night the sirens blew, and incendiary bombs were coming down in their thousands, the garden was ablaze....
I remember the Blitz very well… the first night I was very excited, the skies would be filled with...
When we went back into our home we were faced with a mess of plaster from ceilings ,broken windows and...
On the second of September 1939, my sister and I boarded a train at Stratford and travelled to Colchester...
She lived with her mother, Lily, whom she she loved dearly, and her father, Henry, who to her was the...
He and his brother, my uncle Thornton, were going to watch a Marx Brother's matinee that afternoon. She...
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