The bakery was situated between Kent Street and St. George's Square in Portsea, Portsmouth, an area...
Anyway, I went back on the way back into the city, into Mansfield, Mansfield town, and I got to the last...
Yvonne was called up in 1942 when she was twenty one, was assigned to the WAAFs and posted to Wing,...
Jean Osborne was one of those who enjoyed the entertainment that wartime Westgate had to offer - the...
They had had an air-raid shelter built in the basement, and on the night of April 21st, which was the first...
I hid for hours behind these bushes watching Mrs Harris, Christine and Edna looking for me. When we got...
We were on holiday with my mum and dad in Blackpool in September 1939. My mum and dad had returned to...
From Honiton station we had to march through the town, we girls in our "civis", some of the girls...
And even more silly in my eyes was the fact that the defending 鈥渇orce鈥 鈥 I think they...
The young German who had seen me at Dad's bike shop and when he returned from leave in Germany, brought...
The council workman had dug a hole in our garden and put in an air-raid shelter, about 2 metres wide and...
I recall that my father, who was the only adult male in the cellar, had to keep going out of the cellar...
The prisoners were allowed into the town under curfew hours and at weekends the prisoners and local people...
On the beach, we used to find rolls of silver paper, which would be used for decoration, and there were...
Germans came to examine our car an Opel Kadet of which were desirable to the Germans, But it only had two...
I applied, successfully, to work for the Royal Artillery Searchlight Division....
His winter attire, abandoning all pretence at uniform, comprised of a pair of mitts, his copper-blackened...
His father, Arthur Wright, died that year and my dad also ended up in hospital with an infection in a bone...
Other memories are rushing to the local shops with my mother because word had got round that the...
I was born on 22 Sept 1929, in Jamaica in a little village called Springbank, the town is Port Antonio in...
Apparently, the Germans were broadcasting the bombing of nearby Gainsborough when in fact, in the blackout,...
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