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German Prisoners of War

It was difficult at busy harvest times to get help, but then a prisoner of war cap was built at Clay Cross...

Experiences of a Glazer

I remember helping a land girl deliver milk in a pony and trap around Wymondham... We often saw dogfights...

WORLD WAR TWO - MEMORIES, HOW WE COPED

My mother and brother unfortunately could not cope with sickness so it was left to me to carry out...

Granny's Memories of Word War Two

I enrolled with my Father's car as petrol was rationed immediately, with the Leeds Civil Defence...

VE Day and the Giant Swastika

The village was to celebrate VE Day by having a bonfire and we were asked to make a large swastika to burn...

Morrison Shelters

Much is talked about Anderson shelters but a lot less about Morrison shelters and they were a far more...

A Childs Wartime Memories

As a child born in 1940, the only memories I have of war time are those of being taken to London Road...

WWII — Christina Ray Edminson - My Story Part 2- School Life, Evacuation and Beach Time

WWII — Christina Ray Edminson - My Story Part 2- School Life, Evacuation and Beach Time. Because of...

Joan's Story Part 1

My Life as a Land Army Girl I served in the Land Army and was sent to work in Lincolnshire working on...

Trapped in the Coal Cellar

One Sunday afternoon they were both on duty when the sirens went and my mother, my aunt and I went down...

Messages for Candy.

I was three years old when the War began and lived with my Mother and two older sisters down Albert Avenue...

My Experiences!

Stayed in the Town all the war never evacuated as we thought they - Germans - would come so it would be...

An English Boy In Hamburg

I was born in Grimsby on 15th January 1931 and my parents took me to Germany in the summer of 1939 to...

MEMORIES OF BELFAST DURING WORLD WAR 2

WHAT SOUNDED TO ME LIKE PLANKS OF WOOD FALLING WAS ACTUALLY THE DEBRIS OF HOUSES IN PERCY STREET AND DOVER...

Homeless with a baby

It received a direct hit from a stray bomb dropped by the Germans on their way back from bombing Biggin...

An Apple A day

My grandfather and grandmother arrived from London one day, deciding to come and live with us for...

Tea and sandwiches at the big house

The bridge in this photograph is a folly on Major Harcourt Webb's estate at Spring Grove at Bewdley....

The Flying Fortress

He mentioed that he was based near where the Flying Fortress came from....

A Welsh Farmers' Tales

I was a farmer, near Llanarthne, 100 acres, quite a big farm for round here, dairy cows, milking about 35...

WORLD WAR 2 CONCERTS - Performed by some young girls in Stoke to help sick people in the war.

During the 2nd world war some of my friends and I decided to try and raise some money for the War Effort....

Life in Freshford street

During WW2 Eleanor lived in Freshford street in Earlsfield. The only thing Eleanor recalled about living in...

Memories of a War Child by Jean Thurkettle

In 1939 when the war broke out I was 8 years old and I lived with my Grandma and Grandpa in Barnigham...

Cadbury World

I was born and brought up in Birmingham — Bourneville, Cadbury World. The curtain went up to “A...

Family and the War

One night a bomb fell on the corner of Tynedale road and Olton Boulevard. A bomb fell nearby and we saw dad...

Scary Stuff for a 7 year old!

I was asleep in bed when the sirens went, but my mother, who had expected my younger sister to be born that...

Yanks on maneuvres in County Tyrone

I was born in Sixmilecross in Co Tyrone....