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Memories of the Lyminge Area

At the outbreak of the Second World War Lyminge was invaded by troops - the Duke of Cornwall's Light...

Sisters evacuated from Guernsey to Glasgow and Paisley

We lived at Valnord Bank House with our parents, Reg and Ellen Gould, our brother Ronald who was almost...

Wartime childhood memories from East Dorset

Around the Wimborne area there were tank blocks laid down between houses, air raid shelters built in...

A newly-wed in Wartime Yorkshire - Part Two

We had a very, very dear friend, well actually he was my brother's mate, they lived right opposite to...

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Neddo

Grandma's two youngest were Redvers and Edward. They were both sickly and as soon as possible after The...

Memories

Fire-watching didn't mean a cosy chat around the hearth, But picking up incendiaries and giving them a...

Memories of a Laddie

The RAF, the Navy and the Army all had an interest in Blyth and by the 1940’s the port was once again...

Wally Christie and other memories

Unconcerned at the anxieties which must have plagued every parent at the time, our days were spent in...

BAPTISM OF FIRE

I was 21 years old at the time, living with my parents in Caterham, just over a mile from Kenley aerodrome....

Medical Memories of Sunderland in wartime

When the world war II started in 1939 Ron and Les were just young boys aged six and nine, who had to...

Home life in Nottingham

I was born in Nottingham in 1936 to Doris and Ted Walker who had met on a blind date at Nottingham Goose...

My Wartime Story

I stayed in Blackpool with my mother; my father was still in Manchester working in a munitions factory......

Tower of London

Sixty-two years later I went on an outing to the Imperial War Museum in London and in the 'Spies'...

Bournemouth, London and Oxford

My wartime memories can be divided into three sections, Bournemouth, London and Oxford....

‘Stevie’s WW2 Memories’ By Ena ‘Stevie’ Thipthorpe nee Stevens.

Dad asked mum to give them tea and whatever food we had. One day when we were about to leave the shelter...

Joan Pound's Earlier Memories of ww2

On Sunday, 3rd September, we were expecting an announcement from the Prime Minister, Mr.Neville...

Childhood Memories of the War

Rolls-Royce had additional protection - in many local streets and roads there were metal burners , out 20...

BAPTISM OF FIRE

I was 21 years old at the time, living with my parents in Caterham, just over a mile from Kenley aerodrome....

My Wartime Story

I stayed in Blackpool with my mother; my father was still in Manchester working in a munitions factory....

Baptism of Fire

I was 21 years old at the time, living with my parents in Caterham, just over a mile from Kenley aerodrome....

HMS.VICTORY & HMS HERMES

May I record the story told to me by my Dad PO> Henry Walker of how NELSON'S flagship THE VICTORY...

School Boy Memories. Part 3.

The rusty tins of food without labels which were supposed to have come from a ship which had been sunk and...

Bike and Hikes

Whilst I was serving in Selby I met a young man called Albert Hilton who was a dancing instructor. Ten...

Berna Moody (aged 9 on VE Day)

I believe the plane continued over Newbegin and Wood Lane, and then went on to fire at St. Mary`s Church,...

WOMAN'S POETRY JOURNAL FROM SECOND WORLD WAR

This journal was all about life in the Second World War... the rationing, the silence of the church bells,...

A three-year-old remembers the Liberation of Guernsey

Little packets of biscuits were dropped into my pushchair and Mum was eagerly opening them and gave me an...

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