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Redcar milk bottles, sand bags and why Harry Foster wanted a memorial where the Zetland Club once stood

Redcar milk bottles, sand bags and why Harry Foster wanted a memorial where the Zetland Club once stood....

A Teenager in Wartime

My favourite work was tending the milking cows and the dairy work... One day it was my duty to take Darkie...

A CLIPPIE IN WW2 PART 2

My first trip I was told was to a factory at a small village called Knighton.I thought there's a joke...

A WARTIME CHILDHOOD

Why I should remember that incident over 60 years later, is probably because all my education at the Jesse...

War as a Teenager

My favourite work was tending the milking cows and the dairy work... One day it was my duty to take Darkie...

Escape from Nazi Occupied Vienna Part 2

Those were all Jewish people, full Orthodox Jews, had a farm in Millisle. This was another telegram,...

evacuation

On September the first, four days after my eighth birthday, I found myself standing with my elder brother...

Fragmented Memories of the War Years 1939 鈥� 1945

There were in fact encampments if soldiers at Penlee Battery, Penlee Fort, Tregantle Fort, Blarrick Camp,...

Wartime Education at Sparkhill Commercial School Birmingham

After spending three years in the countryside as an evacuee from Birmingham I returned to the city in...

Wartime in Beeston

Beeston as a whole did not suffer a lot of bombing but it was said that the German bombers came up the...

Wartime Memories by Alma Mace

Dad was called up for the army, so Mum was left at home with my sister Marion and me... Dad was demobbed...

Reflections of a Yorkshire Childhood 1939-1945

The Hudsons said we should call them 鈥楿ncle Frank鈥� and 鈥楢unt Lizzie鈥�, and we were...

The war in Ipswich as a schoolgirl

We had no idea what it was and speculation was rife about it being a new 'secret weapon'. It turned...

A Child's Memories of Wartime in Blackburn

We had evacuees sent to live in Blackburn, mainly from Birmingham and East London, so we learnt new games...

Nancy Cutliffe Remembers Glasgow 1939-45

When it was over we danced in the street, we made huge bonfires with the wooden doors from the shelters it...

We Did Our Bit: Chapter Three

When the hostel opened for the land girls, the farmers were reluctant to employ us and one bright...

Further memories of a Gosport teenager in WW2

There were three in Gosport, The Ritz, the Forum where Waitrose now is and the Criterion, now the Bingo...

Volendam

Mr Hindley said that never in his life had he felt so proud of British children as he did of those 321...

Country Life in Hampshire

My cousin's letter inviting me to visit was more of an SOS begging for company to relieve her boredom...

A boy's eys view of WW2 Part 3

In towns like Blackpool where there were such high numbers of new recruits to be trained there was a...

war time memories in north wales

He was able to tell me that it was called 鈥淐haff鈥� , a British invention, used to confuse Radar,...

The Evacuation, and Return, of the Stokenham Parish area, due to the use of the area for the Training of American Troops, as remembered by Mr Edward Lethbridge

Edward remembers that at Churchlands Farm, where they lived before coming to Frittiscombe, his mother,...

War memories of Mr Forest

One time in the factory where he worked, he had an office and there was a small office next door, the child...

THE MASKS OF WAR

Over our new bedroom window, he carefully glued sheets of muslin to protect us from bomb blasts. A German...

A little girl in Manchester

Some times on a nice Sunday Mum and Dad would take me on a bus to Altrincham and we would walk up...

Interview with Eric Atkinson - chapter three

Cross Lane barracks had army cadets who wore the khaki uniform... I come home and they all split up, they...