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My Wartime Memo

My Dad said Weaste was not on the map so we would be free from the bombing... My Dad and sister wanted...

Potato Picking During WW2

It was hard work too, bending down and placing the earthy potatoes into our buckets until it was full and...

BOARDING SCHOOL WAR

I remember the "luxury" of dry bread and mustard, "trage" - a mixture of treacle and...

A War Within A War

This had the effect of infuriating the Irish Republican Army, who set about a campaign of disruption and...

As much Treacle Pudding as we could eat!

I just can't imagine now how we managed to carry treacle pudding home on the bus that day鈥ut we...

MY TWO UNKNOWN RAF 61 SQUADRON 5 GROUP AIRCREW. Chapter 1

The document reports about my time at Barnardo's that was very interesting, but not much was said about...

The Day Work Broke Out

The volunteers were drilled in the use of the stirrup pumps which were metal gadgets with a hose attached...

Memories of 'My War'

I was 12 years old and my brother was 3. The announcement came at 11am saying that Hitler had invaded...

I remember it well - or most of it

Just before the Hanney family moved from Derbyshire to Coventry, the first bombs of the war had been...

Evacuation--A place of safety !!

With the declaration of war in Sept 39 --the planned evacuation of children took place.The London schools...

Switzerland during the War

As the awful stories of bombings in England and slaughter in our neighbouring countries emerged, our school...

A2860067 - Second World War memories.

At about 4 or 5 years old, walking with my maternal grandfather one day along what was then the only...

Our Evacuee

Auntie had chosen these two, who were sisters and had come to ask if my mother would take in the younger...

North London and Yorkshire Memories

When we couldn't sleep because of the noise of the bombing, my mother would read the adventures of...

Cardiff schoolboy memories

You can still see examples in front gardens in Ninian Road in the Roath Park area of Cardiff where the...

My War Memories

My younger brother, Stanley, was already in the Navy at HMS Ganges... All of Stanley's friends had got...

The Ladder which saved my life and other stories

In January or February 1944, outside Bodmin Railway Station I was testing hydrants, there were military...

memories of Folkestone during the war.

At first children from London were evacuated here to Folkestone, after a short while it was decided that it...

Potato Skins

My Mum and Gran took on a Polish farmhand, promising him the cart and horse as a present, if he helped us...

I escaped being a Tenko kid by 2 weeks

The Japs bombed it on the causeway linking to Singapore Island to the mainland... They, poor men, were...

Moonlight and Clouds

My mother used to tell us stories of Ireland, they scared me almost as much as the thought of the bombers....

Various Memories

The next morning the 22nd April 1943 we saw we had been in the centre of bombed buildings, Stafford Street,...

The Women's Land Army Part 2 - First Job

There was pictures and dancing in the old village hall, now demolished, dances at Belsay, Ouston RAF...

Willaims War Part 2

The bombing continued and if anything got worse, but by now people had got used to it and had started to...

Childhood Memories Of The War In Aylesbury

The first memory I have is when evacuees arrived in our town, Aylesbury. One of our evacuees decided to...

World War II Memories

I decided to leave school at fourteen years of age and began work in an office situated in a large building...