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Baker's Round

I'd found myself a job as a Baker's round assistant, helping Derek Hollis, a local rounds-man on...

鈥淧ink ticket鈥� worker

Pink ticket鈥� worker By Mrs Edna Robinson Before the war, I lived in Woodthorpe and worked as a...

The life and thoughts of a young primary school boy

When we finally reached our destination, the country town of Kinross in Perthshire, we all gathered in the...

Kill the Kraut! Kill the Kraut!

I was met by a friend dashing up the road "Quick, come quick" he shouted: "We're going to...

Wartime in England

We tried all sorts of shelters including St George's Church in Southwark, a Tate and Lyle factory...

Schoolgirl memories of World War 2

Grantham was quite badly bombed due to Marco's gun factory and also the local aerodromes, it was also...

Disrupted Holiday (The Day War Broke Out)

Then the day arrived for the holiday and there was the thrill of the train journey heading down to the...

My War Memories

Born in August 1937 at Streatham, to Alice Armitage of Kent and Gordon Armitage of Bolton, I was living in...

Plane Crash In Denmark

We spoke German very well, so he was able to communicate with the soldiers -but they thought he was an...

WW II THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD

In my family were eight children: Vic, Jack, Rosa, Doris, Len, May, Jessie, Ralph, Terry and of course Mom...

My War Time Memories

The Germans bombed very near to Whittington Oval school in Yardley Birmingham and a land mine was dropped...

ww2 Evacuation from West Norwood, St. Clouds Road, l939

When we arrived in Cleveleys we were billeted, with my grandma, in an Hotel on the seafront called...

Olive Want's A Silver Sixpence and Other Memories

When war broke out, Auntie and Uncle wanted to move away from London so that left Mum, Dad, myself and my...

Evacuation&the Blitz

Anna looked after me whilst Mrs. Sherburn got on with her violin group and so on.When I walked to school it...

The day when we heard Churchill was coming to our village

The army personnel were billeted in nearby Park Green and Risley Hall and also in extended army barracks at...

Alfred Street Junior School, Rushden, 1940

Alfred Street Junior School Rushden. Sadly, news came that 7 children had died in the Alfred Street attack...

Preparing for War in Dunstable

I was living at home in Garden Road in Dunstable with my parents and sister. I worked as a fitter's...

WARTIME MEMORIES

We had two bicycles between four of us so, as the nearest railway station was five miles away, we evolved a...

Evacuation to Canada 1940 - 1945

Most of us got sea sick on the voyage and my younger sister developed measles so we did not see her for...

Childhood in the War

He worked in the paper mill, Coltrop Board and Paper Mill 鈥� on the other side of Thatcham. The book...

What About 鈥楧鈥� Day?

Thus we were soon accepted into their community and spent our spare time entering into the various...

Second part of story 11 year olds memory of World War 11

Mum, Dad, my brother, my sister, my uncles Ern, George, Archie, my Aunt Sarah and myself. Both my sister...

County Durham

I clearly remember the radio broadcast of the then Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain advising the nation...

"The Germans Are Coming!"

Because our town was at the side of the main Manchester/Preston/Liverpool railway line which was a prime...

A Child in Hull

Why they came to Hull which was constantly bombed, I do not know. I remember looking out of the bedroom...

George Pearson- Chapter 1: the Home Guard

One of my younger brothers had a faulty heart valve and died tragically young... Our bit of the Home Guard...