I was born in 1930 in Friern Barnet, North London, and was 9 when war broke out....
In 1940 aged nine, I lived with my mother and father Jack and Marion Findon In Petts Wood, Kent. I...
The station and trains were full to bursting and to move along a corridor was a major hike as people...
Today you can just pop to the cupboard and grab a chocolate bar if you're hungry, but then if children...
I went to a market garden and worked indoors among sheds and glasshouses sewing, growing and marketing...
On the way home Dennis found another mortar bomb, about 9 inches long, it had two bullets stuck in it and...
The least I could do was to become involved in the Local Defence Volunteers,; A local farmer placed a...
His friend George Bellamy teamed up with my mum's friend Bessie and both couples got married, mum and...
My mother, Ethel Keith, was allowed to join the schools鈥 evacuation scheme from London because she...
Granny sat in her chair,hair straggly and greasy and a self satisfied look on her face... Granny was an...
We were very lucky, we spent many hours in Dover's Caves, where often soup and hard biscuits were...
I was evacuated from Dagenham in the East End of London at the beginning of the war and transported by...
This was 鈥渙ld hat鈥 to my brother and me, after our experience of the London blitz, and we...
If it was known that bananas had arrived in Redruth my very busy Mother would walk the mile to Redruth and...
My Uncle Reg was a rear gunner in the R.A.F; his position was described as a 鈥榩lace of no...
One night during an air raid an incendiary bomb hit our house, went through the roof and landed in a large...
Our lodger worked for a plastics company in Dunstable, which made canopies for Spitfires and Hurricanes....
No wonder his haughty wife looked down her nose when she visited our Salford 'slum'. Aunty...
Cyril Griffiths has spent all his life living on Birchin Common and anyone lucky enough to bump into him on...
When they were liberating the camps, I remember my parents were very fearful, and I was terrified, because...
It was on one of these occasions that I was walking through 'Saint Nics' churchyard where they held...
Potatoes walked Ray Caradeuc... The story goes that my uncle Peter, eh, was had up, and he was put to jail,...
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