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The Beginning - Part Three.

To me the loss would have been terrible, for in my mind I was trying to get enough money each week to...

First Daylight Raid.

My Mother never did recover from the problems of child birth and it was early in 1940 that my Father sent...

Childhood Stories

I lived in Kingston and can remember my father taking me up to the front bedroom to watch the Germans...

Life around Liverpool

I was born in 1933 so was a school child during the war and I remember during the heavy bombing raids on...

Mystery Ships In Dover on Xmas Day in 1939 or 1940???

On Christmas Day in 1939 or 1940, I can't quite remember which year, but it was definatley Xmas Day, my...

Run Rabbit Run

Grandfather was the only man in the house during the day and Jack would have him dress up smart and take...

The green liqueur

My first job after leaving secretarial college was as an Office Junior in Holburn in the City of London....

Residents of Clova House remember the war years

Emily Cranage's memories of the war were the bombs at Chad Park, and lighting cans of oil to make a...

The saga of the Norwich Road Paperboy

During the war I was a paperboy for Bell's Newsagent in Norwich Road, Ipswich. They returned with all...

Newcastle memories

Many times I cycled back to Millen to see them and my friends. By Amy Hall, Ashleigh Hope, Zoe Brown, Y9...

The Germans search for illicit radios in Guernsey

He was a radio Salesman and engineer, and obviously the Germans would not let him, so he got salt water...

YOUNG BOY'S EXPERIENCES DURING WAR

I bought a broody hen and a dozen eggs and produced 12 healthy hens with a regular supply of eggs. Although...

November 1940

We, the family, my Mother, Father & Sister, waited on the platform for the Railwayman to signal with...

Big Bertha

There was a huge AKAK gun nearby, we called ‘Big Bertha’. Two nights a week I was on ARP duty...

Huncoat's Pre-Fabricated Housing Estate

Many of the residents of Sawdust City were employed at the Bristol Aircraft Company's aero engine...

PEOPLE'S WAR 1940-41 ("Anyone for Tennis?")

So, the "Tennis Section of the Andre Rubber Sports and Social Club" was formed. The Sports and...

The Occupation Intermediate School, Guernsey

The Intermediate School premises in Brock Road had been taken over by the German Authorities, which meant...

world war 2 in east london

A Breath of Fresh Air. Postscript

I passed through Grinton at approximately 7.30 a.m. each morning in an army truck but did not see anyone...

My War by Joan Bond

The Long Evacuation

I was evacuated in 1939, when I was five years old, from Glasgow to a village in Aberdeenshire called...

The Clock as told by Judith Hill nee Sturgeon

The clock in question, was large made of solid wood ? walnut and had silver coloured metal figures and...

Evacuee

I was 9 when the war started.We lived in Leigh on Sea in the Thames estuary.By 1941 the war had hotted up...

Child's view of the war

When Thornton Varley's department store was bombed they moved into the museum — I was fascinated...

world war 2 in east london

Memories of World War Two

There was no bomb shelter as such, but the late Victorian school had a large cellar, which was big enough...