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World War experiences from a young age.

My Nana's opinion of the opposition during the war was that she didn't really understand what was...

Servicemen in Singlets!

This is an extract from an interview with Stan Hook taped on 14/07/03 and added to the site with his...

Blue Lamps Blackout

Blue Lamps Blackout...

Invasion of the Village

The first invasion of our village was the arrival of a very large troop of soliders becasuse drill hall...

A Tribute to Graham Walker (Poem)

Had Graham penned "HIS book" he'd present it so well, Of his humble beginnings, what a story...

Childhood and School Memories

We went out to a place called Formby which is on the River Mersey estuary and was a very sandy place -...

Sights and Sounds.

Grandad Pounder asked the sergeant of the Battery on Shipley Common why he had not opened fire on it and...

One Thursday Evening in War-torn Britain, 1942

Dressed in my wartime siren suit, I stood by the entry door, I heard Mother shout 鈥淚t's Joeys...

MEMORIES OF A LAND ARMY GIRL

STORY TITLE:: MEMORIES OF A LAND ARMY GIRL. We had a re-union at the Albert Hall at 25 years 1n 1969 for...

Minced Rat for Breakfast!

Home was just near London so we heard the bombers coming over, heard the bombs dropping and saw London...

Gawsworth Re-visited (Abridged version!)

We all had a medical, unfortunately my brother and I were going down with Chicken Pox, and nobody wanted...

Supporting the War Effort - Recycling and Saving

When our cart was full, we would trundle off to a collection depot in Wallington where the paper was...

WARTIME - THROUGH THE EYES OF A CHILD

In 1941, whilst staying in Suffolk with my brother and sister, we were out for a walk when we saw a very...

A YOUNG MANS TALE

School days were only made tolerable because when the school bell rang at the end of the day, there was...

A YOUNG MANS TALE

School days were only made tolerable because when the school bell rang at the end of the day, there was...

Some School Wartime Memories 2

I well remember the times when flying-bombs fell on Queens Park station and on the edge of King...

V E Day memories of Michael Walker

My Dad, Les Walker, was called up by the army in early 1940 and joined the East Yorkshire Regiment at...

The Wartime Memories of Thomas Baylis

During the war a German fighter plane crashed half a mile away from his house... Soon after the fire caused...

My Time as a Boy in Birmingham during the Bombing

During his time at Lucas he designed something, which was really secret and he was asked to go to Lucas at...

Bruce Wisely, Sergeant Pilot NZAF

I was adopted pretty much at birth in 1962 and brought up with my mother, Norah Jeanette Canavan and Bill...

Life with Dai Butt

Needless to say, relations between us and the neighbour, a man named Jim Williams, were strained from then...

The psychological impact of the war upon a young evacuee

George was in the Commandoes and would eventually win the military medal for bravery. The war lost a great...

A teacher and her pupils evacuated from Dagenham to Great Yarmouth

At 4am, in the dark, we gathered all the children and their younger brothers and sisters at the school and...

Middleton and back

I was evacuated to Middleton- St George in 1939, I was only eight at the time, and I lived in the east...

A Child's War

As well as my grandparents, there was also my mother's younger brother and sister, John and Rita...

Wartime Memoir

The Germans were bombing the airport at Swaythling, which was very close to home. The neighbour was a...