Early Friday morning the children gathered at our school ,Cross Fraits Elementary in Beeston Leeds, to...
There were seven avenues, seven straight roads, like that, like a ladder, and she lived in the main...
I was four years old at the beginning of the war and lived in Welling in north Kent with my parents, my...
My brother, Cecil Arthur Brown, joined the Merchant Navy and was Captain of the ‘Trident’....
At Christmas there was a party in the Church Hall which was just around the corner from Wallington Hall and...
I lived in Wrexham with my parents and brother Philip who is a year younger than I am... He came from...
My parents had travelled down overland from West Africa to meet me at Cape Town. I was taken off the ship...
The thunder sounding too like the bombs we had heard dropping on Manchester. When I was eight or nine I...
But I was instructed to go by bus to Hereford and meet Reg at the bus station... On Wednesdays we did...
In our case, the lodgers were two Irish girls, named Jessie and Josie....
They trained me up to do various jobs, I came back and I was in Guisborough, there was about 15 of us,...
We were very well treated; I slept in one room with my mother, Jean slept in another with Mrs Dickie, while...
Around and just after this time of which we speak, I was making crude steam turbines and engines instead of...
I was taken by my parents to a West Wales children's sanatorium at Kensington Hospital, St. Brides,...
I went back to work at Taylor's for the next four years and moved back to Romney Street with my mother...
We often spent one and ninepence to go and worship James Mason, Clark Gable, Margaret Lockwood, Betty...
Flying Fortress bombers had only recently arrived at Grafton Underwood Airfield but they were soon active,...
Sam Plim - Market Drayton born and bred - became friendly with Doreen Sharples, whose family subsequently...
We were moved to Canal Farm and spent three happy years with the Kivell family, Uncle Jack, Auntie Eunice,...
Fortunately it was empty at the time but I later heard that a lady had been killed outside her cottage when...
I was two and we where on holiday on the Scillies and on the day war broke out Mum thought we ought...
So Mum, me and the dog, followed by reluctant Dad and grandfather, all sat in the dark in the shed until...
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