One day, I think it must have been 1940 suddenly everyone was agog because we were going to have...
It was a little frightening being amongst the crowds, but my father eventually found a nice boarding house...
Wake up, Ciss鈥 I shouted 鈥淥fficer Watkins and Sergeant Mac are coming round with tea and you...
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Just before D Day they knew something important was about to happen because there was a convoy of heavy...
The Army blocked access to the cliff-top and the beach had been barred to us from the start of the War. We...
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The teacher Mrs Stephens showed us a picture of Jesus floating up to heaven at Easter. In Buckland...
Mrs Gibson was two when the war started so she didn't understand much, but after the war she thought...
In September 1939, the children who were being evacuated from Gwladys Street school, walked in a crocodile...
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My father was a Baptist minister and in about 1944 my father took a church in Ilfracombe. I...
We slept on King's Cross underground station at first, every night my mum and I would go to the left...
My parents bought a caravan and sited it on a farm at Ivinghoe near Tring in Buckinghamshire... Arthur, the...
As an only child I hated leaving my parents in London, where we lived in North Kensington. Our Grandfather...
So I went into the civil service, in the Cunard Buildings in Liverpool, and that was the headquarters of...
Evantually my sister Dorothy and I were sent to Hilcot in Wiltshire... I was to find out later that one of...
I was living in Welling in Kent, and we had a bad time with air raids, doodlebugs, incendiary bombs, and a...
Prior to the onset of war I was living with my parents and brother and sister in Gibralter. We were fairly...
There was a huge orange glow in the sky when we came into the garden, and the smell of cordite everywhere....
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No sirens, no tanks rumbling through the streets, no menacing aircraft overhead and, where sheep, pigs and...
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