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Longstone Local History Group - `We watched the flames of Sheffield' Evacuees remember

Longstone Local History Group — ‘We watched the flames of Sheffield' Evacuees remember by...

Kippers for Breakfast

If travelling to London and negotiating the underground for the first time, was an adventure it was nothing...

I Only Got Out Of Bed To Tuck My Feet In

I was 16 years old and had been working for two years at FW Hampshires, a manufacturing chemist in Sinfin...

'Nice One', 'Prisoner of War Camps & Ice Lollies', 'Elliott Shop Tales', 'Mouldy Bacon', 'Sing Songs' and 'The Tank'

'Nice One', 'Prisoner of War Camps & Ice Lollies', 'Elliott Shop Tales',...

Maurice Kinslow - 2nd World War Memoirs of a Child - Part 1

By now the Anti-Aircraft Guns were going full pelt at the German Bombers and theshrapnel was raining down...

Scramble to get a bit of a parachute to make silk knickers!

After the service, while walking home with my Mum and Dad, I asked them ‘What is war? I remember Mum...

Memoirs of a Time Traveller

My cousin Thora's husband Geoff went to work at Aycliffe munitions and many women from the village also...

I Bought a Bus!

One day, while I was out walking through Hereford pushing John in his pram past the bus station, I spotted...

Life of Grandad Part 3

By the time the war had finished in 1946 they were both married and had left the village — Marion...

Thanks Mum

We were probably taken by bus from Liskeard station to the village school and then all stood there while we...

My Memories Of War

As my dad was at work, I felt responsible for getting my younger sisters downstairs, through the garden to...

My Memories Of War

As my dad was at work, I felt responsible for getting my younger sisters downstairs, through the garden to...

My Memories of War

As my dad was at work, I felt responsible for getting my younger sisters downstairs, through the garden to...

David Woodwards

Other houses had shelters in the gardens, called Anderson shelters, but my Dad said his garden was far too...

World War 11. Memories of 1939-1945 in and around Bootle, Liverpool - 4

Childhood memories of war in Sutton Coldfield

We were lucky, or unlucky, to live near Royal Airforce Sutton Coldfield, whichw as a so-called 'Balloon...

My Memories of War

As my dad was at work, I felt responsible for getting my younger sisters downstairs, through the garden to...

William Cummins at Sea - Part 3

I got ashore and I got up to the pictures just going to go into the pictures when the bombs started to...

Reminiscences

In Christchurch there was a row of cottages near, what is now, the Thomas Tripp and on the other side of...

Llangynidr in wartime

A scheme was set up in Llangynidr whereby members of the forces coming home on leave late in the evening...

World War 2 Memories

Born in January 1930, and raised in the delightful tree lined avenues of Chiswick, West London. I remember...

My war years in Bedford and the Navy - Part One

So the L.D.V. were formed to defend the places of importance which as far as I can remember was,...

The Birch Family at War (Part 2)

I remember looking up at night and seeing the searchlights pick up a plane, it looked like a silver moth,...

The Dancing Years

In Blackpool there were three magnificent dance floors — the Winter Gardens, the Palace Ballroom and...

Oh, bother, there's the siren!

News of German bombers approaching New Silksworth was signalled by a lone siren on the roof of the...

War Life in Liverpool and Evacuation to Shropshire

After boarding a train we seemed to be travelling for hours and it was dusk when the train stopped at...