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Chance Meeting

Joyce and her sister Maureen returned home to Mitcham in London in 1947 only to find that her mother had...

Memories of father going away and coming home

I lived in Belgrave, an area of Leicester where there were many houses, with my mother, father and sister....

Betty Abbott鈥檚 Story

I lived in a road off Russell Lane, East Barnet, with my Mother, Father and Sister Vivienne who was 4 years...

Schoolboys and Bombs

A few days later, again in the same area, I saw lots of boys on the shore picking up Incendiary Bombs. When...

A Civilian鈥檚 Angle on the War Pt 3

When France fell, the Germans had whole of Northern France, it was easier for them to get to the Midlands....

The Duchess' War Time Journey

My husband was in the army and he had one week off for our wedding and we went down to Eastbourne where...

Evelyn Haslam's Story

I went to school part time, mornings one week, afternoons another and we were given a bottle of milk and...

Prisoner of War Camp at Kingswood Common

My 17-year-old brother, George Alan Pope, was called up into the Army but he returned safely, thank...

Lancaster Bomber Crashes on Great Offley Farmhouse.

Lancaster Bomber Crashes on Great Offley Farmhouse. The plane had flown from over Hitchin going West...

Amusements and Recreations in Wartime

Our first effort was a hut, built in the withy beds and later a more permanent hut or house in the woods......

The bombing of Sound City

Sound City, under its boss, Alexander Korda, was famous for movies with stars like Ava Gardner, David Niven...

A Memory Never Forgotten

When I had left school at 14 years, I went to work in Frank Longden's Factory; we made medical hosiery...

Unity House; Dale Street

There used to be a big Co-op called Unity House in Dale Street and Byrom Street. I was going down to the...

Evacuation adventure!

That is why my nanny and her brother Ivan Reader were evacuated to Cheshire... Ivan said to my nanny,...

Looking after Wendy

I remember the evacuee who came to stay with us Wendy Shalt from Middlesex, she was about 10 and I was...

There's Always Bloody Something

I later was in the 9th Squadron RAF in the Lancaster Bombers. Ruby's story I used to do spitfire...

James Linsell鈥檚 Memories of Evacuation from Tattersalls, Knightsbridge

At Swindon, we went by coach to a community centre or church hall in Cricklade....

The Family Pub Was Burned To The Ground

Gt Aunt Ethel was just getting out of her shelterbut to our horror, stuck half way under the base was a...

Happy sea-side holiday times.

It was a completely care-free holiday for us children, little did we realise, know what was in store for...

An unexpected return home to see the baby

He was from Slaithwaite, near Huddersfield, but was stationed at various times at Wappenham and at...

Digging gravel by night and avoiding air attack

The locals were told the Germans would cross the English Channel and come up to the River Wylye and say `Oh...

Bombers over Warnham

Later in the war there were both German and Italian prisoners of war in camps outside of the village. Every...

The Long War in Blaydon-on-Tyne

It was a very bad time for the U.K. Later on we had the Royal Fusiliers stationed in Blaydon then, when...

Margaret's Story

Margaret and the other people in the cook house had to be awake at 2:30 to be on duty at 3:30 to...

In the good old days.

We were born before television, before penicillin, polio shorts, frozen food, Xerox, plastic, contact...

The Day I did as I was told, and got a good hiding.

The plane was flying quite low, and I could see that it was a Junkers 89. It was learned later that it...