In June 1940 we had moved to Coulsdon as Upper Caterham was in a danger zone, being near to Kenley...
Evacuation from Dagenham, London to East Dereham, Norfolk. Our time came to board the coaches and, as we...
Then after 12 months they decided they wanted to make a kitchen at Raby castle in Staindrop near...
My brother was sent off to the Lotofen Islands in Norway in December and none of the lads had the right...
Later in the war we moved to Clifton where BOAC had taken over the Grand Spa Hotel and the disused clifton...
The German bombers never returned again to bomb Bradford throughout the war. Now it is part of the Leeds...
The first time two very tall, or so they seemed to my sister and me, American Airforce Officers appeared...
Out in the park, where part of the safari park is now situated, was a nissen hut camp which housed...
For my mum the war seemed a distant event in those early days, but for my dad Harold Leslie Callow his...
After coming back home the Battle of Britain and the bombing of London began in earnest, and I recall...
My best friend - Jimmy Clarke - and I used to go to Northolt aerodrome to watch the Polish Squadrons of the...
In the mean time I was in the Army Cadet Force at Goldington Road School. Then we had a Sergeant Major...
Here we sang folk songs from around the British Isles such as Loch Lomond, Kelvin Grove, The Ash Grove,...
We girls were taken round to the back entrance, I suppose it was the servant's entrance really, where...
Sheila was born in Keswick in the Lake District in 1929. In 1941, Sheila passed a scholarship to Keswick...
This system of turnips in apple pies was only threatened when one of the buildings dedicated to providing...
So shortly after that my sister Lilian and I were sent to stay with friends of my mother in Moville, Co...
There were no supermarkets in those days, so we had to queue at the Butchers for meat, the Bakers for...
As we were leaving, my mother was with me then, we were at Liverpool Street Station just when they were...
From here we somehow circumvented the mainline London stations, joined the GWR line to Oxford and the...
We had the first lot of incendiary bombs dropped at Dagnall, in a field about a quarter of a mile outside...
Rose and Lily were tucked into the warm double bed and Granny wished them goodnight... That afternoon my...
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