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War Time Transport and Evening Entertainment

In peacetime the first tram to leave the central depot to the edge of town terminal started at 6.30 a.m....

My War

My last memory is very pleasant, we had some Italian prisoners billeted in Meriden Hall and on V.E. Night,...

Bute remembers WW2

In the same way that no part of Britain can honestly assert that it was immune from, or untouched by, the...

Mothers Little Helper At Nine Years Old

The two elder sisters and mum with the help of a male neighbour, dug the garden vegetable patch. While she...

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Winnie's Jim Crows

I then had a long metal rod which I placed inside the shell case and when I spotted enemy aircraft I rang...

A Cranleigh schoolgirl

There were days when we would have to go the the Baptist Church and have lessons, other days in the garage...

Evacuees return to Guernsey

Beryl Sebire interviewed by Matt Harvey, Social History Officer, Guernsey Museum. There's only one of...

Castleford Home Front

The Robinsons in Somerset

We had to stay on in Weston until October 1946 as our Dad was not demobbed until then and we had no...

A six year olds memory of WW2

When the bombs started to drop around Kings Heath and guns and lorries were going up and down the high...

About Geoff.

Heathcoat School — Mr. Children went potato picking on farms — not Geoff. Few cars — hold...

Air Raid!

We hurry down the street close to the walls until we're opposite the shelter door then straight in - no...

The New Intake and The Convoy

In 2001 it won the Scottish Association of Writers’ Scholarship and the Dorothy Dunbar Trophy for...

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My Uncle said that he is not giving me money but if me want money then me would have to come over...

War Time Evacuation

The lucky ones managed to get a place in the village; others, such as myself and my friend Keith were sent...

Child's memory

Each evening I would put my pyjamas on and get my doll and my brother Dennis would take me to the air...

Memories of World War 2

A bomb blast meant that windows blew out, the ceilings fell down and tiles fell off the roof, we had lino...

"Memories or War in a mining village"

In the event, they turned up before he had billets for them all and quite a few went to Annesley Hall for...

Bombing

I have three brothers two older, one younger, my eldest was a messenger boy on a bike in the Blitz, until...

Soldiers in the village

A fundraising event was held in the village hall in aid of wings for victory and I sang a song and won...

‘Never Mind, Mummy, It's Only Land Mines Dropping’

Because there was an underground spring in the garden we were unable to construct our Anderson shelter so...

An Evacuee's Tale

We arrived in Devon at St David's Exeter; we went from the station to a Market where ladies gave us tea...

ANECDOTE YEARS 1943-45

Hull was very badly bombed during the period 1942-1945. 3: My father Alfred Smart was a fire fighter based...

Balloons in Derby

I was mainly on the barrage balloons on the balloon site at Derby. We lived on the balloon site and we had...

Learning to poach as an evacuee in Suffolk

On one occasion we decided to assist with the moving of some 2-year-old Suffolk colts from the marsh area...

Then, here and now

In the days when kings were Kings they always had jesters. "What I need" said your friend "is a...

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