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War with the Coopers

Let me explain - the Americans and Canadians were stationed at a camp called Bushey Park Camp which was...

My grandma and our Belgian Refugees

When the Germans invaded Belgium Gill's family fled to England in her father's fishing boat....

RATIONING - CHILDHOOD MEMORIES by May Elwood

My father was on a 24hr leave because he was stationed locally, the sirens went and he called me out to the...

King for a Day with Big Feet and Chewing Gum

You need one good mouth-sized piece of candle - taken from the bottom of the candle, in the hope that your...

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The War as a 4 Year Old in North-West London

V2 very different to the v1 but not as loud as you couldn't hear these coming they were also extremely...

The Docks

I lived 3 minutes from Victoria dock gate, Birkenhead, really close to the docks... I got the handcart and...

The Quiet Side Of The War

Later in the year the German bombers started coming over at night - we assumed on their way to bomb...

OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR I HAD! Part 3

Likewise, we realized that some adults, like scoutmasters and choirmasters, were a bit 鈥渇unny鈥...

Rush Green, Romford

One of the organizers took us all home she had a big house with servants, there was 6 boys and 5 girls,...

Social Life in Belfast

Funny enough my own son was out there at the time, Korea I think, and he said to me 鈥淢um, if...

A child's war in Wells next sea

The beach was a faraway magical place There was usually an air sea rescue pinnace in the harbour, with a...

Mrs Purves's wartime recollections in Nottingham

One of my duties back in local government when I dishing out permits for chicken wire, was to drive around...

wartime memories

On this particular night, with bombs falling all around, Dad was standing outside the shelter, suddenly he...

Taking cover under our schooldesks

We were all in bed and before the siren or pips went, a bomb fell on the local church 鈥 about 50...

East Devon Farm Child's War

Surprisingly, relatives arrived being my grandmother and aunts fleeing from a possible German invasion of...

A Boys War in Liverpool

In the Dingle there were fuel storage tanks and across the river Mersey the Port Sunlight refinery. Every...

The War As A Child.

There were three of us left Joan Caree who lived in Baker Street, my Mother and I. Two male organisers took...

A Guernsey family spend the war in Coventry

They stayed, one of my cousins became the Chief Petty officer of the Home Fleet, and after that was the...

War time snapshots

During the meal, we heard on the wireless that Hitler had invaded Holland and Belgium. No-one ever said...

The story of Francis Wait Born 6 June 1939

We got a food parcel one day, I think it came from Australia and there was some soap in it which smelled...

Good Neighbours Good Friends

Living in Brighton during the war, with my two boys Brian and Raymond we lived at different times in Albion...

The Never-Ending Thread

I took the Kent Scholarship examination and this enabled me to move to Clarendon House School, then...

Under the V-1 Flight Path

Towards the end of the war when I was 10 or 11 years old, we were under the flight path of the...

'Busman's Holiday'

It was decided, after one of the heavy bombardments of Coventry, that my mother would take my brother and...

Stoke Hammond War Memories

My friend, Jean, and I cycled to work in Bletchley, me to the Rodex coat factory and Jean to the Co-op...

A North London Childhood And A Near-Miss

Her sister, my Aunt Rose, came to look after us... One night the bombing was really bad and my Father...

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