Rose Addison The Sewing Ladies History had never been my strongest subject at school. But I feel that along...
Just 'soldier on'. Every few days a school friend would come in late. 'bombed out,' perhaps...
We used to have great big cans filled with oil all over the pavements and they use to light these every...
My mother, older sister and myself lived in part of an old Georgian farmhouse, on the outskirks of Boston...
School holidays were mostly spent working on a farm at White-cross, a hamlet on the Penzance to Hayle road....
One day while there, after seeing an army motor-cyclist deliver a message, we were called outside and told...
Our neighbours, in the adjoining semi, had moved from London to escape the air raids and refused to have a...
The map area we covered was Staincross; Notton; Woolley; Woolley Colliery; Haig; Darton and Kexborough. We...
I had left school in 1931 and had been farming in Entwistle and Edgworth - my Dad had some poultry and we...
In 1941 I was fostered by a couple who lived in Darenth, near Dartford in Kent....
Apparently stimulated rather than intimidated, we schoolboys would arrive at school with out latest...
It turned out, in the block of flats where we lived, one of the neighbours had a son named Ron Burrage who...
My two sisters, my mother and I went from Liverpool by Elder-Dempster Line. It took us a month, stopping at...
You'd pop outside and there was a greater danger not from being bombed but from our own shrapnel -...
Mother took us up to a Dorset airfield — probably Moreton — and Mum said, “This is your...
Because my parents thought that the countryside of Monmouthshire would be a less likely destination for...
Delma thinks that her mother did not want to split the girls from their brother who was only a few months...
My mother was born in Beaconsfield on 11th November 1932, and lived in Seer Green, on the NW edge of...
During the war I lived with my mother and father and four sisters in a small holding in the village of...
So at 17 I joined the Land Army and became a tractor and van driver... There was a dining room just for...
My father was away in the army for part of the war and so my mother had the unenviable task of raising...
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