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AUDREY MOONEY'S WARTIME CHILDHOOD IN STOCKPORT

So I went to my friend's showing off and said 鈥淢y Dad's in the jungle and he's a...

V.E Day and Memories of the War

My baby sister would be taken to the woman opposite to where we lived, and then my Mum and I would board...

My Home in Horsham and the Short-Term Residents

Our first 鈥渨artime guests鈥� were two teenage boys from the Merchant Taylor school in London, who...

Jean Haslam 1945 - 1946

We heard a great cheer, and the King and Queen, with Princess Margaret and Princess Margaret drove in an...

HOW WE BECAME EVACUEES - THE WARD FAMILY

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

Memories of World War 2

Our home was just opposite a park called Campbell Park, where the school, Wesley College, which my brothers...

My school tunic lasted six years!

How had they crossed Herts and Essex without Luton being warned?.. My uncle a WW1 veteran had dived under...

Childhood in Cardiff

I ran with a rough gang of boys, much to my family's horror & ,on the way home we would chase...

One child's war part 3 1944-45

Teesdale Tales - Part 2

Haydn Sculthorpe was born on 19 August 1924 in Peterborough, then in Northamptonshire but now in...

Bob Wyatt's Wartime Memories

My aunt, uncle and cousin lived down at the bottom of the same road as us and in 1939, my aunt decided...

Sixty Years On by Carina Hillman (Banks)

Eventually after going to a house where the owners were Jewish and only wanted a Jewish girl, I found...

Working as a Voluntary Aid Detachment

One day I was coming back from doing one of the rounds with the canteen and I met my brother who was...

A school girl in London

With my Father at sea, my Mother and Grandmother quickly decided that the outskirts of London was not the...

Childhood Memories of WW2

My eldest brother was the first of the family to join up and enlisted at St. Johns Wood in London in the...

A German parachute

I was standing at the back door about to run to the air raid shelter, but stopped due to the most...

From Birmingham to Burton and Back

My mum got a job in a big house in Burton and claimed me back. My mum used to go once or...

Graham Hindles story of World War 2 Recollections

As a regular in Mrs Pearson's shop, Dad got a few extra fags and sweets... In letters to Dad, Uncle...

A TERRIFYING LUNCHTIME

A newspaper account, together with a picture taken after the raid on my school, subsequently found its way...

memories of the war as a child

After the funeral my mum sister and me went back down to Barnstable leaving my dad alone in London... The...

THE EFFECTS OF WARS ON A LONDON SCHOOLGIRL.

Soon after this she contracted St.Vitus Dance, a 1nervous complaint, and then Rheumatic Fever, which led to...

Joan's Wartime

Other "excitements" were two 'planes down; first a Tiger Moth, a training aircraft, crashed in...

Memories of Strabane

My family came from County Clare so there was no problem getting material and my mother came up with the...

Growing up in wartime Colmworth, Bedfordshire Part One - A schoolboys memories of the 'Home Front' and working on the land.

Growing up in wartime Colmworth, Bedfordshire Part One 鈥� A schoolboy's memories of the...

THE BEGINNING

My mom's army allowance was 42/- a week that included myself 7/6 my brother Ken 6/6 and my sister...

Summer of 1939

We were so very fortunate for the one bomb had landed about 12 feet from the front corner of the house and...