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World War II Memories: Of Balloons, Bombers and Butterflies

World War II Memories Of Balloons, Bombers and Butterflies....

Growing up in wartime Colmworth, Bedfordshire Part Two - Surrounded by airfields and aircraft. Little Staughton and Pathfinders Group No.8.

It turned out it turned out that it was a Mosquito aircraft - that was a two engined light bomber - fighter...

Fred and Maureen Waite Reminiscences

I left there and met my wife on holiday at Leysdown Isle of Sheppy and we discovered that we both lived in...

Evacuation and The Blitz

The noise at night was ear-splitting, not only with bombs coming down but on the railway they had large...

Little Linda Loved The Bombs

Mrs Reid was pushing Linda on a swing, when the drone of aeroplane engines overhead, the Luftwaffe heading...

FATHER JOHN DOHERTY FROM DERRY REMEMBERS THE CITY

And he came up from Columba's Wood College in the South, and he was the chaplain in Derry for years......

The Homecoming of a child

In the event my father returned to India in the summer of 1939 while my mother,sister and I remained in...

War Time

Neville Chamberlain, the prime minister announced, in a solemn voice on the radio, that as Germany had not...

Evacuee

I was so happy; I'd only ever had my Mam, Auntie Edna and Uncle George, Uncle Dennis and my Granddad,...

Two People's \War

The Officers and RAF Ground and Air crews billets for Church Broughton was Felston Hall, which is now a...

Wylam Wartime Memories

The officers were billeted in the "Fox and Hounds" and "The Bird Inn" but the men had to...

Bad Dream come True In Torquay

My two wonderful years in the Cornish countryside were over and I had been given a place in the Plymouth...

Moffat Memories

Girls didn't go into pubs so we were spare the awful scenes that we see on the television now of girls...

Cumbria a foreign country

The villagers knew that Londoners were stupid, but they had no idea that they wouldn't understand the...

Flashback

The railway line from Greenock to Glasgow and the route outwards to the South was a prime target despite...

My parents' war

The 2 Germans had been shot down in the Battle of Britain, if I remember right... Indeed, once the war was...

Madge's War

Aunt Jess, Dad's sister, ran a funny little boarding house in Conwy, North Wales. The new arrivals were...

Life in Surrey During WW2

Dad was working, training people to use basic engineering tools in a Training Centre at Waddon on the edge...

From London to Somerset and back again

The drawing room smelled musty and contained an old out of tune piano, only played for hymns on Sunday, a...

Lily Goldman's war

Came the week-end of the wedding and the girls took me out to lunch and when I got back, the crane was...

How we became Evacuees

Auntie made sure we were spotless by two o'clock, but we had to wait longer as Georgina and then Paddy...

ID 7775481

We were happy boys; my saddest time was missing school because I had chickenpox and spent most of the...

Looking Back

I slipped the pineapple into my pocket, leaped on my bike and pedalled like the devil to deliver the...

My Dad and Me

My dad took over as engineer at Haston Lee Mill, Roe Lee. Dad eventually moved out and I was persuaded to...

A broken reed

The English stood when I played ‘There'll always be an England’; the Scotsmen bellowed in...

Wartime memories (Ronald's War)

Needless to say these strange animals were Cows and they had been rubbing there selves up against the back...