In 1940 in the spring our eldest sister was in the WAAF and had friends in Blackpool, so with Mum and three...
One particular time during an air-raid, I remember we sat there and sang the usual songs, 'She'll...
The famous steeple at the roundabout in Salford belonged to the church, to which this school was attached....
The food was very sparse, just a few paste sandwiches and a little cake but then a great treat was brought...
The Exeter blitz was a reprisal raid for us having bombed Dresden....
He found us a cottage, near our Grandparents because we would be better all together in Aston,...
It was months before I next saw Renee flying over the depot doorstep. Lively, laughing Renee had had no...
Audrey named some of the general foods that were rationed like citrus fruits, meat, sugar and fat but she...
At the age of two I remember being carried to Dartford Station, put on a train with my two sisters, Sheila...
We arrived in Holland, and travelled by lorries to the army camp in Germany. In the end, the Russians...
LODGER DEMANDED CANNED GRAPEFRUIT FOR BREAKFAST. Dad being a policeman was kept busy during the war and...
During the Liverpool Blitz, the sirens sounded at 6 pm nightly, and we would make our way to the shelter,...
At the time of the London Blitz I was 17 and lived in Tottenham, N.London with my parents, my younger...
Some evacuees went as far as America and Canada. There was a bad situation at the start of the war when a...
Probably not, but we were in the next cove to Trebah Beach, where American troops embarked for Omaha in...
The door opened and My Dad stood there in his Air Raid Warden's dark uniform with his gas mask bag...
Worked by Mr and Mrs Atkins in Main Street Hilton. I also recall a little black boy being in Hilton and on...
As I said, I was teaching at the time at a place called Tushingham C of E School in Cheshire, then I...
But I have this feeling that Katie had a wistful soft spot for me - probably from the first moment she saw...
He came on leave before going over — he was one of the Desert Rats — and we were in the garden...
One day back at home I had to look after my younger sister at lunch time as my mum worked at Boots...
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