Bacon and ham 8 ozs Meat 1 lb approx Butter 4 ozs Cheese 2 ozs Sugar 12 ozs Tea 2 ozs Margarine...
Within 10 days I caused the College to close for a few days since I had a temperature which soared over 104...
Longstone was a village which sheltered evacuees and was comparatively unaffected by air attack, although...
At night before we slept we'd been taught by Mum to repeat a litany of blessings for all her extended...
Mum placed a great emphasis on personal cleanliness — which cannot have been easy with kids getting...
To be sure, Pinner was on the outskirts of London — almost country when I was growing up in the...
I loved visiting my aunts: Aunty Winnie and Uncle Reg's house was redolent with the smell of Palmolive...
I understood that patrols in the Oxwich Bay area amounted to half a dozen men with a rifle each, a few...
At 15,this baker's boy, cycling around on a tradesman's bike with sweet smelling hot freshly made...
The meagre food rations were supplied to Thaxted citizens from J W Tanner and Sons,. The all male staff...
From my vantage point in the cupboard I once or twice saw my Dad in his tin helmet running through the...
Sadly, the Luftwaffe had once again found their target, and as I learned years later by using Dundry Church...
Mum, Pat and I would catch the Oreston Turnchapel Ferry from Phoenix Wharf on the Barbican, get off the...
I was born in February, 1928 in the Wiltshire town of Trowbridge and was eleven years old when War was...
As the war progressed the Matildas, Valentines and Crusaders passing the door of Spindle Cottage gave way...
The Blitz I was standing outside of our thatched cottage with my mother, and grandparents, looking at the...
At the time the Land Girls, about twelve in number were billeted in the Gardens Cottage, beside the...
The Warden and Assistant Warden ran the Boy Scouts and as there were a number of Grammar School Boys in the...
Mam was always pregnant and Nan's house was filling fast although the child that followed my brother...
My father was working in the London Office of a retired Colonel who inherited three properties — a...
The war began, in a small way, to have its impact on my consciousness: the rigours of the blackout, the...