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The war in Leicester

I remember we had evacuees in the city from the East End who died when Leicester was bombed... I remember...

dulwich

I have a clear memory of my mother sweeping up broken window glass probably from a bomb blastand of the...

My Early Teenage Years During The Second World War

I typed telegrams going to Winston Churchill and more important code messages to the War Office, which I...

Edna's Story

Us older girls were taught housewifery and we had to wash the children's socks, pair them and hang them...

How A Small Boy Misses his Father

Afterwards, when I had my tea I climbed onto the settee to look out of the back room window, and there was...

Yanks Bikes and Girls

The tray was on a table near to where I was sitting, so when the music started and they left their seats...

Childhood Memories in the South of England

Because my father had to go off to Africa and then Italy in the Army, where we helped to run the Opera...

Builders

I thought it was where he had stayed but now through some contacts find it was The Old Hall, home of the...

Childhood memories

One of my friends down the road was about to go out with her family to the same air-raid shelter when an...

The Leicester House against Hitler

They came home for tea and the three of them, Albert, Bill and Jack often came to visit from that day on...

Doodle bugs And A Queen on A Bicycle

My schooling was done mainly in the school airaid shelter and I can remember during the war children viewed...

A Child's early Wartime

My Granddad dug a shelter and when my sister and I were staying with him and Grandma, we had to get up...

My Lovely War

When there was bombing we helped give food and shelter in Park Methodist Church where my mother was...

Christmas Day in Changi, Singapore 1941

Our House was in Changi, Singapore, my father was an army officer and on Christmas day 1941 Hong Kong fell....

Memories of Pauline Storr nee Turner

Due to many air raids on Hull, and because of five children in our family, my father rented a small...

Bombing in Bodmin

My mother and I were staying at a lodging in Bodmin, Cornwall, provided by the army so that we could be...

Coping with a War and having no legs

I was a Nurse in Sudbury, Suffolk for two years when I had a road accident and was in hospital for twelve...

Herts War Childhood

In particular, he remembers watching the glow as London burnt during the Blitz, he remembers D-Day for the...

Being Bombed - Aged Five

Because I had infectious measles and couldn't go to the church hall, the warden kindly took us home to...

Dance

In August of that year I was on holiday with an aunt of mine in a small village, Bryncnig near Tywyn,...

The Day my Dad got Drunk

My sister and brother had disappeared, my dad, always to be seen digging in the garden on a Sunday morning...

The Bobby and the black-market pork

I lived on a small holding at Dunley in Worcestershire; with my mother, father, brother and sister and my...

Happy memories of my war effort

My duties involved milking the cows, cleaing out the henhouses and putting in fresh straw, and helping Mrs...

childhood war memories

It was in their cellar that my family, mum and dad, big sister and myself had to go during the airaids, the...

A Family Affair

We had to go to school every day that summer and were told if we heard the church bells ring what ever...

A Penny in my Pocket

I was just stood outside the shop ready to go in,when I saw the plane.I was frozen to the spot as it...