The following is an excerpt from a group reminiscence session held at Ashford Library on 3/11/05. Memories...
One day, my cousin and I were standing outside looking up at the planes in the sky and he realised that the...
I talked to my friend, Peter Grant, who lived in Hull during the War....
My husband Harold Emery was serving with the HMS Grenade and we had married quarters on this little Island...
Our bus journey ended in Findon Valley at the bottom of Vale Avenue, and we made our way up to the Gallops:...
Partridge's Park, Newnham Bridge... We used to come on the train; and then turn off, and come over the...
In 1941, following the Easter Tuesday Blitz on Belfast I watched the refugees from North Belfast straggling...
Uncle Tom was a senior officer on a merchant ship and his brother Sid was a Sergeant in the Northumberland...
Often on duty at the Police Station and slept in the cells overnight....
The doctor said it was the poor food... During the war we often had lunch the in British Restaurant...
We found German money and I found a bronze cross on a blue ribbon. It was a bronze medal given to German...
After the war my Aunt Olwyn met a survivor from the Lancastria who told her the R.A.F. men were below decks...
I went to Trafalgar for VE Day with my Sister & boyfriend who was back from the Navy. We would go into...
My boarding school lay a few miles from the railway marshalling yards at Darley Dale, a likely target for...
We would often go hop picking in the Kent fields on Uncle Tim's coal lorry and sometimes we used to see...
Then we stopped going to school and my cousins and I hang out with my Gran, My mother worked at Vickers...
The highlight for me, of course, was meeting a Norwegian sailor at a dance in Newcastle and getting...
They married in Pembrokeshire in August 1939 then returned to London shortly before my Dacu was called...
During my Latin School Certificate exam the sirens sounded, so each pupil taking the exam was allocated two...
The dairy door was up in the corner, against the high wall surrounding 鈥淲illiam's Yard鈥....
We had the wife and three children of an Army Sergeant who was based at an army camp in Kimberley called...
The cemetery across the road from us was bombed - it was near the railway and the Germans had been folowing...
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