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My mother had a letter from Buckingham Palace inviting her to receive my father' medal and she was...
Arriving hours later they discovered it was a German bomber returning from its raid on Liverpool that had...
Mrs.Speight lived in Pallion, in Sunderland and the Germans bombed Pallion... When Mrs. Speight and her...
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September 1939, my mother Margaret Dougan, took my brother Tom & I down Burnhouse St., Maryhill,...
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In contrast, my maternal grandmother was a rather sedate individual, tiny, piping thin, frosty silver hair...
The knowledge that he would help choose our Member of Parliament for Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham North,...
We had to climb down a hole on vertical ladders into the dark; a teacher would be at the bottom to direct...
Afterwards I wanted to join the land army but as I was working at the Laundry and we did the army and...
I boarded a train at Harwich with all of the pupils of Esplanade School to journey to a small village in...
That first Sunday we were told that. we would be going to Chapel that evening after tea, petrol was still...
W'en t'Trawdin 鈥淒ad's Army鈥 gathered each night, If t'Germans came, thi...
As bakehouses were rationed to the amount of flour, sugar and other ingredients that they had used before...
When I left school I spent two and a half years meeting the train on weekdays at Helston Railway Station, a...
When he moved to his grandma's in Moorside Road, it was opposite Holyrood Church and they would go into...
In Victoria Park Hackney, the council dug big shelters with stacked beds all along the walls. There was a...
My Brooks family lived at 18 The Green, East Acton: Mum (36), Beryl (10) Brian and new baby sister Jasmine....
My first memory is of looking out of a neighbour's upstairs window in Munster Road, Fulham, London, to...
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