I remember we made brown paper bonnets to protect us from the bomb blasts, and if there was an air raid...
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During the Battle of Britain we would hide in the meter cupboard as the enemy bombers flew overhead London...
Once a month a lorry collected the paper but not before the village children had put aside a small parcel...
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The air raid siren sounded, but was soon followed by the "all clear". A stick of seven bombs had...
My third eldest brother, who joined the RAF as soon as he could, was a wireless operator/air gunner on...
The thing I remember most was a bomb dropping on police houses at the bottom of Mildred St. There were a...
Restrained by a tautly stretched, slender steel cable, shining in the winter sunshine, the Barrage Balloon,...
Some men, who I later found out were teachers, and some older boys, were rushing about with lists, trying...
After the wedding my brother, Ron, and I persuaded our parents to let us stay at home therefore I resumed...
There can be no conclusion or certainty, where the very structure of communication has founded the reign of...
For example, records of Dublin comedians like Jimmy O'Dea ,in his Biddy Mulligan mode. The coming of...
At the age of seven, I was playing with a friend called Olive in her garden, playing Doctors... I got the...
In September 1939 at the age of seven years, I was evacuated with other pupils from Western District...
One of my very first memories of the war was the Battle of Dunkirk when the British army were driven back...
I lived in the Blue Anchor Pub in the Angel Road, Edmonton, London with my sister Valerie. That particular...
When John and me were at school, Edward was in a horrific accident at work, when he was in the mine a...
My father was in the Malayan Civil Service and worked mainly in Singapore though he travelled quite a lot...
I decided that I would get dressed, put my brother in his pram and wheel him down to Grandma's......
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