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A second world war - by Dorothy

And every night of the raids over Liverpool, when we heard the drone of heavy bombers overhead, and saw the...

A Lane Less Travelled

Sometime about early summer 1941 it was proposed that I go and stay for a day or two with Uncle Sam and...

War Years Remembered Part 1

Back in Stamford, and early in the war, my Brother and I with our Aunt got permission to climb the steps...

Runwell childhood memories

Children from the Southend area and inland as far as Rawreth were mostly evacuated. Barrage balloons were...

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WWII- as seen by a small boy on the South Coast

The house was nothing special, but the garden was marvellous; almost an acre in extent, lots of grass,...

Henfield Railway Station

There was one military project that did involve the Henfield Railway Station and that was the receiving of...

The War from Beginning to End

In Birmingham there no bombing for the first 12 months so the parent didn't see the point in the...

Jeeps and Jenny Wheels: An evacuee’s story, Part 1

As time went on I discovered I was billeted in the Head Gardeners Cottage on a high estate which was owned...

War at Secondary School

We were to start having woodwork lessons in our last two years; there were two teachers Mr. Salt and Mr....

Memories of a Walthamstow boy

During night time raids no one laid down except me, dad used to stand on the half landing keeping a lookout...

Wartime Baby in Sidcup

After a year my aunt took me back to Sidcup but incendiary bombs fell all round us that night and whole...

Wartime Baby in Sidcup

After a year my aunt took me back to Sidcup but incendiary bombs fell all round us that night and whole...

War time memories: a Hanwell Childhood

Later the Germans added a small explosive charge or even added phosphorous to the bombs... Our friend knew...

Penang,Singapore,Australia and home

It was late in the afternoon, in the army barracks at Glugor, when I overheard two officers saying "...

Wartime Down the Lane Part 1

Monday morning we made our way to school and assembled in the Hall, Mr. Mann asked us to pray for those who...

One Girl's War - Part II

I went to Auntie Nellie at Somercotes. Dad and Mother went to live at a pub at Alfreton with Sylvia and...

WARTIME CHRISTMAS - 1942 The Journey

What poor souls were hit by that one, flashed through everyone's mind as we sat huddled in the...

Isolated memories…barely glowing embers

Dad, Herbert Edward Knibb. Dad was a clerk and we were not eligible for an Anderson Shelter. My fellow...

about myself

I say hamlet because it only had one road into Malpas and there was no church, just a few houses along the...

An Exciting Childhood - Part 1

Michael Murray remembers the ARP and bombs in Derryicon for Story with photo

People thought … He was the first man to put an express bus from Belfast to Derry....

Life of Granddad Part 1

My father could not get work for several years during the recession but eventually took a job as a gardener...

WAR IN BIRMINGHAM 1939-1945

Although not called on to join the forces he was obliged to join the ARP in the Warley area where we lived...

Memories of a former Alien (Part one)

My teenage sister, who had to cut her schooling short and stay in the city to work in the munitions...

Evacuation to South Shropshire

In the late Autumn of 1940 the tenant farmer, a lady, gave a Harvest Supper in the large farm kitchen, when...

The War Period (1939-1945) in Stokenham Parish, Devon by Charles Hamlin and Tom Brooking

The latter, over a period of time, made people aware that the Germans under Adolph Hitler were opting for...

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