My story is of World War Two in Bournemouth beside the sea on the South Coast of Britain... There was to be...
The was a couple of German POW's who worked on the farm, and they were very nice and friendly —...
When things in Belfast got really bad, we were evacuated to Ballymoney... Then I got my first job, at...
It was always underwear first followed by outer clothes, this was so we could get dressed in a hurry if...
There were five of us girls and I remember us having teacakes and toast on a tray together....
We lost touch a few years after the war but managed to trace him and just recently the daughter of one of...
When we got on the train we went to a small pit village near Ashington call Linton Colliery... I still...
The bomb fortunately veered around in an easterly direction towards the station and fell in a road on the...
The bombs demolished Steele's sweet shop, next to the Royal County theatre....
We ate a lot more fruit back then, seasonal ones of course like apples, damsons, plums and so on....
The caravan was situated near a railway station and when soldiers were brought back from prisoner of war...
We lived in Kersey and my mum took in two evacuees. We had two dear children, a boy and a girl, and...
Staffordshire County Council libraries, on behalf of the author, have submitted this story. So instead of...
Father would be Warden Sergeant in the Home Guard and later became Warrant Officer in ATC. The point of the...
When we were about 10 or 11 years old we used to go around in a big gang playing games such as...
After the night raids on London and the local docks my friends and I emerged from our air raid shelters to...
Although I lived in London when war broke out, I was evacuated on three occassions.this story is about the...
For those who are younger than me, shrapnel consists of sharp irregular lumps of metal from exploding anti...
Dad and his friend Maurice collected old newspapers and sold them, at the rate of one penny for a stone...
It was customary for busloads of people from the North to go to the nearest town “across the...
She was evacuated with the school, plus my aunt and her three children... My uncle was also left without...
My garandfather Mr Huntbach lived on Morley Road Mapperley also in the house was his daughter my Auntie...
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