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Life on the farm

They took us down to the Central Station in Newcastle to get the train and we ended up just outside...

Wilma joins the Dutch Resistance

Holland and Germany had been friends for years but with Hitler in power we did not escape the W.W.2 as we...

Wilma joins the Dutch Resistance

Holland and Germany had been friends for years but with Hitler in power we did not escape the W.W.2 as we...

Land Army brings new life in Wales

When the war started I was in a village called Shaw between Rochdale and Oldham, on the edge of the...

BLITZ

We piled into a three-tonner together with a crowd of noisy engineers and went down singing 鈥楾he...

Escape of a Rubber Planter's Wife from Malaya

We called in at Fremantle and the ship was again delayed, this time by an electricians' strike, for...

'It'll be a cold lunch today'

Travelling home in the darker evenings was often not a pleasant experience due to the blackout, and...

June's memories of WW2 of around 1942

My grandparents owned The Crown and Sceptre public house on the Exeter to London road A30 at Whimple. My...

From Quaker School To India

Although we were a Quaker family and thus were against war, many of my contemporaries at Ackworth felt that...

War Memories

My Dad, when he was on his rounds at night as ARP warden, discovered a family made homeless and brought...

Living in the British Empire鈥檚 main port.

George was six years old when war broke out and living in Portsmouth, which was the main port of Britain,...

Childhood Memories III

Jack Jackson was the radio disc jockey at the top song was 鈥淗ere is my Heart鈥� sung by Al...

Winifred Russell's Story

We could hear explosions and Ack Ack gunfire as the Liverpool docks and city were being bombed. When I...

Growing up during WW2

It was apparent that the enemy had targeted the nearby factory, known locally as the 'Zylo Works'....

Memories of the wartime life of a teenager; Bombed while at college

Wartime Childhood Memories.

I came out of Church Sunday School and saw the Village men congregated outside the London Inn,...

Growing Up in Wartime Sussex - 1. My Home

Because my Dad was Clerk of Works for the East Sussex County Architect's Department, and had to travel...

My Wartime Childhood

Living in Woolwich we regularly saw air attacks due to the Royal Docks being on the opposite side of the...

My Story - Memories

I lived with my sister Joan, my Mum 鈥� Constance Clarke, my Grandad Frank Hewitt, my Grandma Mary...

A mother's love during World War II

With my father away on active duty during World War II, we lived with our mother in Witton Road, Aston,...

Opportunities Lost

On 1st January 1941 I set out to work at the head office of a large company which had evacuated from London...

Evacuation an a Air-raid.

There, we were billeted with a Mrs. MacNaughton, she lived in a house called 'Fingal Villa'...

What My Mother Told Me

Mum and Dad went together to the station along with hundreds of other loving couples to say their goodbyes...

Schooldays in Birmingham

Dockers, the Paintworks in Birmingham, got hit. My brother Cyril was in India looking after Italian...

Boyhood wartime memories of Turvey and Harrold Priory School

The bus brought us home first and then it went back to Harrold to take the children home to Podington and...

Salvage Collecting in Shrewsbury

I later learned that the Army were able to bend the radar beams so that the German planes thought they were...