In those days the teachers carried an emergency bag with stories and lessons in there, ready for when the...
I was born in newcastle upon tyne on december the third 1940. My father had already joined the r.a.f....
Her school, Bootle High School for Girls took over a house called Hergest Croft in Kington....
They lived in wooden huts.There was also dry toilets and a horse and cart picked up the sewage once a...
We tried to live an ordinary life -style so we would go on cycle rides into the countryside around Hainault...
I can also remember my first sight of a banana... It took quite a lot of coaxing from him and my mother...
On the first raid I picked up my daughter and ran under that stairs cupboard. my aunt wouldn't join...
The bomb was dropped by a German bomber returning from a raid on Liverpool....
At the back of the local Co-Op there used to be a mini poultry farm, and we used to rake out the...
My father was working on the railways in the Gold Coast and my mother was employed as a book-keeper at...
My brother and I were out buying sweets when the first air raid siren sounded, A few weeks later we were...
I was on holiday with my sister, Holly, in Harrogate when war was declared and we were rushed back to our...
One night the bombs seemed to be closer....
Fred had to wait as people were being bombed out of their houses and being forced to live in the local...
Towards the end of the war i was sent to parkhouse in Shifnal Shropshire.At parkhouse we watched the troop...
The germans dropped a load of incendiary bombs in Cross Heath... Two brothers named Hancock who lived...
I was a child at School during the War, somewhere between Blackpool and Preston. The child who was sitting...
My most vivid memory of the war was getting out of bed quietly so mum and dad did not hear and standing...
My most vivid memory of the war was getting out of bed quietly so mum and dad did not hear and standing...
As a ten year old girl, I was out playing with my friends in the square at Peckham Rye East where I...
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