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Factories and Football

I went to watch Luton Town Football... I still have a lot of football programmes, the first is for Saturday...

WW2 memories of a young boy — Part 2

My foster sister Flora and he had fallen in love before he left for the invasion of Normandy in 1944 and...

A Childhood of the Blitz

The noise I had thought was a coal lorry was the banging of the doodlebug engine running empty as it...

Aston Hall

The staff at Aston Hall consisted of Geoff Preece and his sheep dogs....

World War 11. Memories of 1939-1945 in and around Bootle, Liverpool - 2

my wartime memories part 2

The paper business used to make £20 a week, on top of this my father also acted as a commission agent...

Ivy's and Bill's Love Story

Childhood recollections come in miniscule images — like running under the kitchen table when I heard...

Memories of an evacuee from Bermondsey

Memories of World War Two by John Carter

If you happened to be on a tram you had to get off and walk home, no question of carrying on a...

Wartime for a young couple

Eileen and Ron were married in 1940 and these are some of their memories of wartime. Ron and Eileen say...

Evacuated to Dumfries

All round Dover it was absolutely bristling with guns and many Doodlebugs were brought down by...

Growing Up in Sheffield During WW11

It wasn‘t very long before Lord Haw Haw, William Joice an Englishman turned traitor, was on the...

Memories of a Ten-year old.

I also remember standing in the garden, near the entrance to the Anderson shelter, fascinated and horrified...

Memories of childhood in a prohibited area

We lived firstly in a bungalow on the Ringwould Road at Kingsdown and then at Walmer, experiencing bombing,...

If we are alive in the morning...

During that night my parents decided that I would not be joining the rest of the school, but instead my...

Interview with Eric Atkinson

Eric was born 1930 in Whit Lane, 4 Alderson St. Lived there until bombed out. Every street was bomb damaged...

A year in South Wales

We met in Cardiff to listen to a talk about Wales and Welsh people before dispersing into the Valleys to...

My Childhood Memories of WW2 (Part 1)

On one occasion my Mum and I were going to see my ‘big’ Nan and Granddad who lived at 7 Cobden...

Evacuation Memories of a Liobian

With the increased bombing it was decided to ship my brother and I off once again to Scotland, this time to...

Memories of being evacuated to Caergwrle

When I first left Liverpool, we packed up, and I just have a vague recollection of..we didn't have a...

I AM A DERBYSHIRE LAD

AIR RAID ATTACKS ON ROLLS ROYCE Because Rolls Royce was a tempting target for the Germans, they had lots of...

Wartime memories of living in Maulden, Bedfordshire Part Two

Actually we used to cycle to the Kempston Barracks my friend and I. I made friends with a girl from...

Evacuation memories

I am Mrs Mason, and this is my store cupboard of memories of the time when my sister Margaret and I became...

Doodlebugs in Staplehurst

Then the doodlebug come, I come back off wherever I'd been, Manchester or wherever it was, when I got...

A Schoolgirl Remembers Life Under the German Invaders, Part II

Part II “The ordinary Germans were very, very badly off towards the end of the war, this was partly...

Time in the Army Cadet Force and Other Memories.

As a member of the choir at St. Peter's Church, Tiverton, I remember how, on Sunday, 3rd September...