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Perran at War. (PART 1)

On arrival at Perranporth the Edwards family rented "Bramble Cottage" at Penwartha, opposite side...

Paris to Liverpool via Stalag 142icon for Story with photo

Memories of the Second War

Boys universally wore short trousers, a little above knee-length, a tucked-in shirt, and in cooler weather...

A Child's War, Part 3, by Alan Marshfield

MISS WEBBLEY She read us The Water Babies, made me sit by John who drew maps of the world like quilts with...

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WW2 - not a text book, merely my war

Bacon and ham 8 ozs Meat 1 lb approx Butter 4 ozs Cheese 2 ozs Sugar 12 ozs Tea 2 ozs Margarine...

SCHOOLBOYS’ MEMORIES OF WORLD WAR II — PART SEVEN

Within 10 days I caused the College to close for a few days since I had a temperature which soared over 104...

Longstone Local History Group - Frank, Adeline and Sheila Hurst

Longstone was a village which sheltered evacuees and was comparatively unaffected by air attack, although...

A Child's War, Part 2, by Alan Marshfield

At night before we slept we'd been taught by Mum to repeat a litany of blessings for all her extended...

Recollections of a Leicester child during World War 2 - 1941 - 1943

Mum placed a great emphasis on personal cleanliness — which cannot have been easy with kids getting...

Dodging the bombs and the bugs

To be sure, Pinner was on the outskirts of London — almost country when I was growing up in the...

Bitterne Park Memories - 1939-1945: pt II

I loved visiting my aunts: Aunty Winnie and Uncle Reg's house was redolent with the smell of Palmolive...

Childhood Memories 1939-1945

I understood that patrols in the Oxwich Bay area amounted to half a dozen men with a rifle each, a few...

An Adolescent in 1939-42

At 15,this baker's boy, cycling around on a tradesman's bike with sweet smelling hot freshly made...

Thaxted at War

The meagre food rations were supplied to Thaxted citizens from J W Tanner and Sons,. The all male staff...

A Junior in WW2

From my vantage point in the cupboard I once or twice saw my Dad in his tin helmet running through the...

Reflections of a Mid-Gloucestershire Schoolboy

Sadly, the Luftwaffe had once again found their target, and as I learned years later by using Dundry Church...

Gloria May Remembers a War-time Childhood

Mum, Pat and I would catch the Oreston Turnchapel Ferry from Phoenix Wharf on the Barbican, get off the...

A Wiltshire Schoolboy's War

I was born in February, 1928 in the Wiltshire town of Trowbridge and was eleven years old when War was...

THE WAR FROM AN AIR-MINDED BOY’S VIEWPOINT

As the war progressed the Matildas, Valentines and Crusaders passing the door of Spindle Cottage gave way...

Children of the New Forest - at War

The Blitz I was standing outside of our thatched cottage with my mother, and grandparents, looking at the...

A Land Girl Remembers

At the time the Land Girls, about twelve in number were billeted in the Gardens Cottage, beside the...

Student Teacher - a memoir

The 1939-45 War in Spennymoor by Lt Col. F Phillips TD.DL.

The Warden and Assistant Warden ran the Boy Scouts and as there were a number of Grammar School Boys in the...

A Redditch Childhood. 1937-46. By Peter Joseph Taylor

Mam was always pregnant and Nan's house was filling fast although the child that followed my brother...

Betty Martin’s Story - Part 1 of 3icon for Story with photo

My father was working in the London Office of a retired Colonel who inherited three properties — a...

Growing Up During Wartime

The war began, in a small way, to have its impact on my consciousness: the rigours of the blackout, the...

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