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Bedford during the war

There were the barracks and Grange Camp near the park in Kempston and we'd see all the ranks and...

A Young Boy's War

The feathers made great Indian headdresses as I played 'Cowboys and Indians' and pulling the...

Sheffield During Wartime - A Living History Lesson - Part 2 of 4

One of these planes has two sets of wings 鈥� and the pilot, a Polish pilot who was fighting with us,...

EAST ACTON: RUSSIANS, BOMB DAMAGE and SPIVS

It was of a giant British workman in overalls standing on a small coastline waving to a giant Russian...

Memories of a young boy living in Bolnhurst, Bedfordshire Part One

It's not as if I regularly attended any of the meetings and it well may be that they didn't have...

When War Broke Out 鈥� Brighton, Sussex; Rationing in 1941 鈥� Margate, Kent; Hellfire Corner 鈥� Margate, Kent

When War Broke Out 鈥� Brighton, Sussex; Rationing in 1941 鈥� Margate, Kent; Hellfire Corner...

A war time train journey

Then it was to be on to Manchester where it was expected that I should make the train for Chester at 9.30...

Recollections and Reflections Part 2

First a bomb was dropped in the playground killing the milkman delivering the school childrens鈥� free...

Life on the Farms

He was in heaven鈥� Pearl says, 鈥淗is whole face lit up and I thought hello he's got land army...

Recollections and Peflections Part 2

First a bomb was dropped in the playground killing the milkman delivering the school childrens鈥� free...

A Child's View Of The War

When the warden saw me coming, he couldn't believe a small child could be coming towards him with this...

William Cummins at Sea - Part 4

It went up unto the railway Grove St is where my grandfather grandmother and some of my uncles were brought...

A Childs Memory

Now this was a great big house with grounds in Lake Windermere, a smashing place with a dog called Roamer,...

Reminiscences

I'm from Wimborne St Giles and went to school there when I was young, I left went I was 16 and after...

A child's wartime memories

I cannot remember exactly when but later on we moved from dear old Walworth in London to Surrey, thinking...

Second World War Reflections

We had a pleasant holiday 鈥� a trip to Land's End, a boat ride to St. Mary's on the Scilly...

Some Shelters I Have Known

Daddy told her to wait for the sky to clear, but she went and zig-zagged down the garden path, shaking her...

School Children in Wartime

There was no such thing as toilet paper, so squares of newspaper were threaded with string and hung in the...

Zipadee D Day

My father fitted wooden bunks for my older brothers Les and Fred, and me and my little sister Irene, to...

Land Army Girl - A city girl in the country

I was sent to Gypsy Hall Farm at Wilmcote to work for a Mr and Mrs Carling; the bailiff of the farm....

THE FATEFUL YEARS

People In The Story: The Jones Family Background: The Loss Of Two Brothers And Other Memories. Cyril, my...

Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire

Mr Howells was the manager of a large department store in Manchester and he frequently took me into the...

Snapshots

A great treat for me and my sister, on Sunday evenings they used to play the national anthems of all the...

At School throughout the War

War was declared just before my 10th birthday and at the time we were living in Newbury Park near Ilford,...

Farm Work and Air Raid Shelters in Orpington, Kent

Shelter life was surprisingly healthy and each day I negotiated the bombed streets on my bicycle to the...

Evacuated to Fleckney

The school teacher that brought us from London was one of the St Jude teachers, and I don't know where...