Margaret Pettigrew worked in the Post Office at Barrhead.She was trained in the use of a stirrup pump and...
In those days the Bakerloo line on the London Underground terminated over ground at Watford and my father...
We could regularly hear the German planes flying over to bomb Glasgow. On D-Day we were washing nappies...
In 1939 I joined the Women's Land Army in Hampshire as a tractor driver and general farm worker....
I 1941 I think, I can't remember exactly, my mother and us two children moved up to Blackburn to stay...
My friend, who lived two or three doors down, had an older brother, George, who was always in trouble. One...
At home my mother was in the W.V.S and went round the district with a friend- colecting pig food into a...
I picked the Land Army and my friend Edith chose the Land Army as well so we would be together. Ken and...
We went to a church hall sign on for work and drank a cup of tea amoungst the dead lying there covered...
Some Americans used to come and stay with Grandma and Grandad, and they would sing songs — Grandad...
My Mother worked in a handbag shop in Walthamstow Market and one day whilst going to pick up my next Blyton...
Mum and dad returned to London, and soon after we were told we were going back to London to live... I would...
They took all the sand behind the coast like l'Ancresse and all the bays, and it was for their bunkers...
Yes, probably the most frightening thing was one summer when I was playing in the fields with my friends...
I remember hearing the drones of German bombers over Worcester, on their way to bomb Birmingham and...
Some the letters my brother Colin Austin and I sent to my father during the war survived and copies are now...
Mum's friends were already with us from Kent when the evacuees came, and stayed for 4 or 5 years...
Mrs Barnes, the vicar's wife, asked the ladies of the village to go to the vicarage to knit balaclavas,...
Mrs Clark had been told of a bomb behind her old house, it was dug well into the ground in a field...
We found out that Mr Mulliner was the chancellor of the Cathedral and Mrs Mulliner was his wife, she was a...
I also recall that it was a very bright sunny day when the Germans bombed Vauxhall. I was at Dunstable...
Wartime memories of an evacuated school teacher Part Two — Life in Bedford. Part two of an oral...
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