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Duke of Gloucester's Visit

The Duke of Gloucester came to Cheslyn Hay ,he met the headmaster Mr. Carter of Pinfold Lane school which...

Farm Evacuation

When the farmer's eldest son John visited and excitedly asked 鈥渉ad we heard the news鈥?.....

Black Market Piglet

I went on the bus with my mum one day to go to the local farm for a piglet. On the way...

A trip to Bridlington

There was a fishing boat in the harbour surrounded by troops, we saw them march off, taking prisoners with...

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VE Day aged 5

I was nearly five at VE celebrations in Quintor near Birmingham. I remember the tressle tables and the...

Memories: Evacuated to Wrexham

I was evacuated to Wrexham and had a happy time there... My brother delivered coal and had a hard job...

An Interview with my Grandad

We didn't have many sweets as they were rationed but we were lucky because we didn't get bombed...

Sheila's Childhood Memories of the War

I can remember hearing sirens when Bristol was being bombed and the whole family crowding into the pantry...

Barrage Balloons

My father worked with the barage baloons in the airforce, he used some of the baloon material to insulate...

Evacuation

Peggy Ogilvie was evacuation onto a train in Newcastle with a baby girl she spend abit of time on the train...

Evacuee

The children are sent away to another country where it is safe and stay with another loving family during...

Evacuated

I attended St. Mark's School at Ligoniel during the war... I was evacuated to a farm in Dunloy for...

Evacuee

I was only 4 years old when I was evacuated along with my brother, Brian. I remember having to be silent...

School Boy During WW2

Help Not Wanted

I rushed out the back door,picked up a bucket of gravel,ran through the passage... They pushed me back...

childhood memories:Derbyshire

We had an air raid shetler dug out in the garden and each morning I had to help my father pump out...

How the War Affected My Family: Life in Mold

The food that was rationed were butter, sugar, tea, bacon, cheese and meat. My Grandad`s job was a van...

Belgian Evacuees in Codnor

My aunt Hilda lived on Mill Lane in Codnor, at one point during the war she had a Belgian family lodging...

Evacuees

Mothers and children from Manchester, Liverpool were evacuated to Lancashire. Lots of things were organised...

Memory of the Blackout

Someone came knocking on the door to say she had left the lights on - it was during the blackout 鈥...

Good, wholesome meals

Food was rationed, but mum always managed to make good wholesome meals. Park Road Primary and Audley...

Too Early for School: Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent

I was at Moorland Road Junior School....

Buried Alive

We were buried alive... My Grandad was on Home Guard duty near by so he came and dug us out....

Sunday Cricket Match

The cricket match stopped and we all looked up into the sky....

What I Saw

One day during my childhood I was in the garden when a aeroplane came over the house, it was that low it...

Bombs over Kidderminster

Bombers dropped parachute mines aiming for Hoobrook Railway but fortunately missed... He saw the bomb doors...

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