When I was ten years old I was evacuated from Brixton in London and sent to Paignton in Devon with the rest...
When I was ten years old I was evacuated from Brixton in London and sent to Paignton in Devon with the rest...
As a young girl I lived near to Manston Aerodrome. We would watch the bombers coming from the North and all...
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I was 10 years old and living in Elwell Avenue, Barwell, when the war started....
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One of the places we visited was the lake in St.James'Park and all round were fountains which were lit...
After the War in 1946 my daughter Dorothy received a message from King George V1, she was a pupil at Acton...
I suffered very badly from asthma, so I was sent to a convalescent home on the Isle of Wight....
Living in Hendon, aged 5, I was among the second wave of North London evacuees due to the V rocket menace....
There was a girl walking there and the sun shone on her ginger hair and she was pretty and I was swelling...
The plane, flying at rooftop height, was coming straight towards me, strafing the road with his machine...
We thought we had waved to a Spitfire pilot, we found out later that it was a German plane being chased by...
Middlesborough was a village near York....
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We were put on a train at St. Peter's station and taken to Ferryhill station and taken to Chilton where...
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