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A Country Tale

She lived in the small countryside village of King's Cliffe. There was an Italian prisoner of war camp...

A Schoolboys War

Walking home from school one afternoon, I saw a Heinkel Bomber drop a bomb near Vincents Toffee Factory...

Bombs, Evacuees and Happiness

With my brother and my grandmother, we were in the Anderson shelter, my parents were indoors and the bomb...

鈥淲hat a lovely little pink girl鈥�

Alison Picken, my sister Margaret's friend and her mother had been killed. Sheila Picken a friend of my...

Ayrshire's War

My class also visited Dean Castle in Kilmarnock and discovered that during WWII it had been a boarding...

Brian's Story

Soon after the Jubilee George V died and was succeeded by Edward VIII, who later abdicated and then there...

Trafford park village

I don't believe in Heaven, but with the smoke and smells of Trafford Park, then one just had to believe...

Evacuation from Guernsey to Glasgow

The Germans were marching thro' France having pushed back the British from the Continent at Dunkirk. We...

The gangs of Ynysddu

The Poacher Comes Home

Eddie also wrote to any government department and politicians he could think of telling them about Maggi in...

EVACUATION AND AFTER

School was in Cyfartha Castle. We went mornings one week and afternoons the next, sharing the facilities...

AUNT'S HELP OUT

It was my other aunt who guided me down dark stairs, through her landlady's rooms, then out into the...

Childhood Memories of West Bromwich in Wartime - 1940's

My parents were in shop keeping in West Bromwich, a very vulnerable area as was all of the Black Country...

Bombs, POWs and life in Newcastle at 16

However some of my most vivid memories from living in Newcastle Upon-Tyne are of bombs dropping....

My Schooldays

He took me by bus to meet Mr Tyrer, then on to the house of Mr & Mrs Pritchard who took me...

Dog fights on top of the Shelter

During the war my mum had a part time job at a cafe, my dad disposing of unexploded bombs and my sister...

THE RECOLLECTIONS OF A BEVIN BOY

I am a 鈥渇addy鈥� person, so before I ate my Marmite sandwiches I would spit on my hand and wipe...

From the Declaration of War to the Blitz

Two days later the whole family sat round the 'wireless' at 11 o'clock on a Sunday morning to...

One Sunny Day

I remember Aintree Racecourse, summer 1940; it had been turned into a camp for French sailors in their...

A wartime childhood

My father never talked about the war years, or my mother, so it was not until 1983, when an uncle made a...

The Clydebank Blitz - from the eyes of my grandparents

She would rest centre, the Red Cross penny a week collector. She worked in theChurch of Scotland canteen...

Missing Presumed Dead in Plymouth

The people seemed to like us, even though we drank most of their beer ration, so I was very sorry when I...

EVERYDAY LIFE IN LISSE (HOLLAND) FOR A CHILD DURING THE WAR

But we had 11 children and the addition of Oma created frictions... Oma started off at our house, then went...

My War Record

When war broke out I was 10 years old having been born in August 1929 and living at 807 Sidcup Road, New...

Being an Evacuee

In 1941 my father was demobbed from the French army. We lived at home again and at the age of 11, I...

The last flying bomb to hit Eastbourne

My mother, Bessie Barton, and father rented a house in Eastbourne, and I live there with my two brothers,...