Before we were married my husband joined the Territorial Army; he also belonged to the Home Guard in...
My mother, her sister and my cousins boarded the wrong train and ended up in Lancashire in a little known...
My grandparents owned a hotel, The Haven, on Falmouth seafront. After the war, my grandparents returned to...
When we left Birdingbury a year later some friends took Maggie in a covered cage to Marton, some miles...
At the age of sixteen Lily and her friends decided to attend dance lessons, as there was very little to...
In the war there was lots of air raids, me and my family used to hide in the cupboard under the stairs...
The unsynchronised throbbing of the German bombers engines. As she passes the cups and saucers and prepares...
DINING CAR Having moved from my first job in Fleet Street to right near my home, the office I worked at was...
But you can see the character she is, was, and she won a goat in a whist drive, a pedigree goat called...
When we were evacuated to our aunt and uncle's in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, I remember the G.Is, we used...
First, Dad was not allowed to stay overnight when he came up from London to visit us. So Mum phoned Dad and...
My father was in the First World War; he was in India and was a Quarter Master Sergeant and then came out...
There was a war on and on our village green had appeared steel pots with chimneys called smokescreen...
At the outbreak of war our family, mother father and we two children, were living at 67 Lansdown Road in...
I lived in Southest Street, Stockwell with Dad, Mum and sister Maureen. When the raids became heavy, Dad...
Later that morning I went into Twickenham town centre where the bomb had fallen, next to a small hotel by...
My Mother and I shared a room with another of her sisters, then Uncle George and Auntie Winnie whose house...
I lived in Cardiff with my parents and 2 older brothers, and we were quite heavily bombed. Then the Germans...
I remember my father had been at home the night of the Clydebank Blitz and he came up to my bedroom and...
As there wasn't a bathroom in our house we used a long tin bath that was usually put in front of the...
The village had evacuees from Portsmouth and Southampton who found it difficult to fit into village life....
The silver paper was sorted on a conveyor belt into different types e.g. aluminium, lead etc with the...