In the summer of 1939, my father left the Merchant Navy to become a berthing master on London's river...
ATS girls on the radars and they couldn't hardly miss… The planes were over the sea. DC: And...
I was so unhappy in Wales that one day when I saw a delivery truck that had Manchester, Liverpool and...
Eventually he left us to follow their instructions and mother, Michael and I returned to London where...
Mary arranged with Maggie that my sister and I should come to Girvan as evacuees and we were made very...
This was not easy because the German Navy had built a large fleet of submarines which they positioned in...
Our next door neighbour came out and spoke to me, all of a sudden we heard this mighty roar, the next...
I was asked to collect the ponies by my Father and Mother from off the common — The common is more of...
We were quite safe at Shadforth and life was quite ‘smooth’, though I always had concerns for...
I came back to home in late 1942, Mum and Dad wanted me home before Mum had another baby and my younger...
My sisters and I slept under the Morrison shelter in the living room together with cats of assorted ages...
When war broke out in 1939, I was 15 years old and working as a tea-packer in the Typhoo Tea Factory in...
As a small child in occupied Europe one often only remembers the most dramatic moments of the war such as...
We lived in the main street in Fowey and one day in 1940 I was in the upstairs sitting room dusting when...
The whole of North Yorkshire and South Durham were one large Airforce base with Aerodromes at Goosepool,...
Very rarely saw her But at the end of the war, we left by train to return to London my sister and...
At another house after we had been bombed out twice I remember helping our Dad build a shelter in the back...
The other thing I remember is that when we moved from there, my Mother had got a house in Mansfield,...
After going to a wee school in Fenny Compton we were sent to a boarding school called Emscote Lawn, in...
There's your fare and we have got you enough money to have an ice cream in the American Ice Cream...
On his embarkation leave before being sent abroad I had chicken pox and he caught it and was too poorly to...
Then the plans were drawn up to evacuate the children, and mothers and babies from the industrial areas and...
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