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After that we used to have loads of Land Army Girls on that car park, every weekend. My sister who worked...
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I had been staying with an Aunt and Uncle in Swanage while my mum was having a baby. One day I went...
H.H: Well we were devastated, I mean totally frightened - you can imagine, especially with the children......
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Well, the children that were going to school, five of them were evacuated Margaret, Kathleen, Esther, Fred...
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My dad made lots of my toys; he made me a ‘bogey’ and a dolls house and my mum knitted me a...
The hill, which ran down from us to the stream, which is the boundary to Horbury, is called Dyehouse Hill...
Food rationing was still in force, and most brides used artificial cakes made from white cardboard for...
We lived at Whetstone, near Barnet in North London... At that time, my mother was working at a munitions...
Hitler realized the power of the wireless and beamed into British homes Nazi propaganda by William Joyce,...
I particularly liked it when, two mornings a week, Walter Dean, a local farmer would bring his carthorse to...
I went by bus on my own and stayed the night with her….. and the fact that during an air raid in...
My father worked for Shorditch Borough Council and contributed with firewatching duties on the roof of Old...
The evacuation came along and children under fifteen were asked to g to the country for their own safety...
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