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CHRISTMAS WARTIME

Our Christmas cake was made from American dried eggs and fruit and covered with soya flour, serving as a...

The Shotesham Rocket

We all went through the Blitz in this house sitting under the kitchen table or stairs without a shelter,...

A Boy's experinces of the war in Crawley, Caterham and Droitwich

This was because I was without my natural parents - I lived the majority of the time with my grandparents...

Land girls round Stratford

47 - Doris Eccleston came from Kings Heath in Birmingham, to spend her War as a Land Army girl in various...

LIVING THROUGH THE WAR IN LONDON - PART1 of 3 .

I went to school in Lewes , and after a short time was offered a part time job in the walled garden...

On Detachments and Billets

A typical Oxfordshire village with Cotswold stone cottages — a church, infants school, sub...

No Medals for Eva, a Family Story of WW2

Eva Blakey was simply another unsung heroine who had to shrug off the lost years and pick up the pieces....

Recollections 1939-45

The number of evacuees varied, they came and went depending on how severe the bombing was in their home...

Interview with Mrs E Matthews part 1

Mmmm and there was er They er a coal lift thing so they were always shovelling coal and er there was a...

The War For One Child (Chapter 1)

Outbreak of War I remember being in the garden of our small rented flat in Upper Parkstone, Poole, Dorset,...

Bournemouth Home Guard

He worked closely with the Army, as well as making small-arms ammunition at a garage during the day....

EVACUEES FROM WILLESDEN TO LANCASHIRE

MY DAD SAW THE FIRST ONE AND SAID TO OUR MUM "THE BOYS MUST GO AWAY". WE WERE ATTENDING BRIDGE ROAD...

An RAF carpenter's story

My next move was to Sealand near Chester where I started as an aircraft carpenter and I spent the next...

My Life in the Land Army

As we were a team of four and I was not as big and strong as the other three land girls, I...

Christmas Before the War

Ten years after my brother Wim and my sister Willy, I was a planned baby and at my birth in 1933 I...

A Teenage Girl's War

Her office was evacuated first to Kings Lynn, then to Manchester and then back to Red Lion Square in...

Child War Memories - the Early War Years.

Sawbridgeworth was home to a then very well known Building Company, Walter Lawrence and Son, who had their...

Civilians at war

We took the number 42 tram to West Croydon Station, and then we walked to the John Ruskin Grammar School...

The Story Of a Jewish German Refugee

I/we were always unaccompanied on the journey to the village, Lund, which involved an overnight stay in...

Far from Home

'What a delightful cottage,' my mother told Mrs Scott, a lady with a thin pale face, tight lips and...

Barry Hobbs reflections of the war years as a 5 to 10 year old

Gangs of six or seven would stand outside the Star Pub in Newmarket Road, one day Joe Louis, the world...

Life In War

By this time in Britain everyone had by law been issued with a ‘Gas-mask’ of four types; the...

In and Around Bassingbourn Airfield, Cambridge 1939-1945

I believe that the RAF flew Blenheim and Wellingtons bombers from Bassingbourn, one of which crashed in...

A tough life as an evacuee

We were driven by a friend of Mrs Stacey, as our foster mother was called, quite a long way to the village...

A wartime childhood in Kent and Herefordshire

It was a milk farm as well, with two rounds in the town, carried out by two Land Army girls with ponies...

Working for Vauxhall in Luton

I was a milliner at Sunman and Hewson's hat factory when I volunteered to go and work at Vauxhall about...