Megan had seen inside it once when Mrs. Evans had forgotten to shut the door... Megan plopped into her...
On our days off seveal nurses would go to Southport, ad I particularly remember on one occasion Elsie saw a...
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The Diana Pond is Bushey Park was covered over with wire and camouflage but we used to climb underneath the...
I had to go to the bottle and jug department and they would seal the corks with sticky paper. So that was...
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It was six months after the war had ended that my cousin, who was a Chaplain with the Armed Forces, asked...
The Village Hall at Hanwood was also commandeered by the army, and moved to Pontesbury and rebuilt to be...
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His grandmother worked on his farm in Italy and he said that he needed a wife for work when he returned...
Today, my wife still has in her kitchen drawer knives and tablespoons which my mother collected from the...
The Americans didn't enter the war until December 1941, and that year came on quite dramatically...
One December night one of many incendiary bombs fell in the road outside old man Bull's house, near to...
When invasion was expected, some of the pupils went back to London and the rest of the school moved to...
One December night one of many incendiary bombs fell in the road outside old man Bull's house, near to...
The shop opposite us was taken over by the ARP.It was sand-bagged up and through a small door there buzzed...
Our nearest school, Mantle Road, situated near a small marshalling yard, had been bombed and in the winter...
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