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Joan, The Graveyard Evacuee

All the other evacuees who couldput money into a kitty in secret and gave him the fare to Southampton......

My wartime memories

NOTE: Mrs. Brooksbank remembers both world wars because she is a bright, sparky lady of 104 years old. In...

My Grandmother's brothers

In 1936 my then 19-year old grandmother Christina Holzinger, or Christel as she was called, read an ad in...

Civil Nursing Reserve and the War Agriculture Committee

When we lived in Morton Lane we had a big garden looking over Hull, and it had a terrace — you went...

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A teenage blunder

That evening I sat in the theatre with Bill on my right and Bernard on my left. I think I ought to...

Happy Memories of North Square.

The shop itself had shutters but no doors or windows, and at Christmas, turkeys, chickens, and sides of...

I'll never forget!

It turned out that nanny had been out gardening and had been approached by a squad of soldiers on exercise,...

A COUNTRYSIDE TEENAGE LIFE STYLE

When war broke out life changed, as the land in the vale was flat a lot of air fields were built for...

High School to Art School Part Two

At fifteen I had left the High School with a reasonably good School Certificate and a Scholarship to the...

Marlene's War Memories

We had fruit trees in our garden and mum would wrap some of the individual fruits up in newspaper and keep...

Happy Memories of Evacuation to Shropshire from Liverpoolicon for Story with photo

They were called Mr and Mrs Goodwin; they had two daughters called Joyce and Wendy, and a son Michael....

A childhood in South England during the war - Jean Watson

My mum made me a siren suit just like Winston Churchill's, which looks a bit like a bomber jacket and...

The Bevin Boy

I received a letter from the Ministry of Labour to report to their officer at Kings Cross Station to...

World War 2 Through the Eyes of a 4 Year Old

If I was outside and heard siren or an aeroplane go over I would lie flat in the middle of the street...

war-time trip from Malaya to UK

The friends, Canon Sheppard and his wife Louisa, and their Bishop, Tony Otter, lived close to Grantham...

A Guernsey family leave Guernsey for Coventry

So we as a family were living in Coventry, but I used to spend about four months of the year here in...

My War Years As A Child In Grantham

One day when the sirens wailed their warning, my mum's sister Ethel came round to stay with us and as...

Growing up in Wartime

Fundraising During the Waricon for Story with photo

The Committee was composed of the leading Business Men in Cardiff at that time: Ship Owners, the Head...

Geoffrey 'George' Proctor - Desert Rat

'So, there was my mum and two children and Pat the Alsatian dog that dad asked mum to bring as well......

Grantham School Boy 1939 to 1945

A Mr Naylor, a postman, was killed and his name is on the plaque in Grantham Head Post Office. In 1944 I...

Misplaced account

Hilda Clark together with her six children, Eileen Cantrell and her daughter were some of the 407...

Here and There

I went to the local village school and they bought me toys from Harrods in London. I missed my grandmother,...

Childhood memories of Ventonleague

Some villagers gave us pennies for singing but one old man was not impressed, he threw a bucket of water...

Brothers In Arms: part 1

The worst bombing occurred between 1940 -1942 and many times during this period Barry and I were lifted...

Dad missing on HMS Dauntless - by David Scrase

There was a bomb dropped on the Brighton viaduct which broke some windows and my elder sister cut her arm...

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