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A Boy's Homefront Experiences.

We used to stand on Bateman's Corner with the Air Raid Wardens and watch the searchlights and the...

Being Shot at on the Way to the Shops and Pelting Conscientious Objectors with Potatoes are just Two of Gillian Earl’s War-time

Being Shot at on the Way to the Shops and Pelting Conscientious Objectors with Potatoes are just Two of...

wartime memories

I lived in a village near Bury, Lancs, called Calrose: no bus service, only one shop - so can you imagine...

Memories of Burnham as a young Lad

On the shore at Burnham there was a Bofors Gun — a heavy gun that was well placed to cover the Crouch...

Playing with guns and bombs in Ayrshire

So I trudged back to the burn with the bomb in hand, and just threw it back into the water!...

Knitting and bombs

When I was at boarding school at Bramley, Surrey we were encouraged to knit socks and balaclavas for...

Happy go lucky Americans in Abergavenny

There was a chap there sweeping, and he was crippled… we went across to him and he said “Where...

Sadness and Excitement

I was a young girl, not a thought of the terror of war and the heartache it would bring to hundreds of...

A Telephonist in the W.A.C

The Irish were very friendly and I was invited home to tea by a civilian telephonist... My father was a...

Blackpool War Memories by Stan Prescott

Vickers Factory made spitfires in Blackpool, and was a possible target. I remember Blackpool prom and beach...

Being shot at on the way to the shops and pelting conscientious objectors with potatoes

She contacted a farmer who used to be her boss because she had been a Land Army girl in the First World...

MEMORIES OF A CHILD DURING WW2

I CAN REMEMBER THE GERMAN BOMBERS THE DRONE FROM THE ENGINES THE GUNS GOING OFF AND THE SEARCHLIGHTS THE...

Childhood memories of wartime life on a farm in Nethy Bridge

We had the Canadian timber corps there and the Norwegians when they were learning to ski. We also had lots...

John Moodys Experiences During World War 2

I remember that after the explosion we all had to go to school in the Duckmanton Arms Pub... Most of the...

Rice Pudding, Bananas and Bombs

I remember this particular teacher was always asking "can anyone get me any bananas?". The reason...

No running water for Nailsea evacuees

My family lived in Poplar and Stepney, and in September 1939 my mother and I were evacuated to Nailsea in...

Audrey Thomas

The family were practically self sufficient regarding food, grew own vegetables, kept goats, chickens and...

evacuated @ five

Sometime in early 1944 I was taken away from my parents and put with a very nice couple in Sheepbridge...

walsden evacuee

A typical corner shop of those days, like Arkwright in " Open All Hours ". I called Mr & Mrs....

Childhood memories of Dorset

Since they were eating all the valuable greens, the village children were enlisted to catch as many...

THE SINKING OF THE ARANDORA STAR AND THE ORSI FAMILY'S SEARCH

BY ROSEMARY ORSI One hundred and five years ago, in 1900, my husband's great grandfather left a little...

Arrivederci Huyton

Our soldiers, who had been sent home to rest and recuperate after being wounded in Europe, were incensed to...

Some of My Memories ofWW2

Being evacuated from North London to the West Country a small village called Sherston about 20 miles from...

A Lucky Night In WW2

My Grandmother lived just up the road in a cottage part of Syon Park estate owned by His Grace The Duke of...

Football Matches and Raids

The evening paper reported that a German bomber had been shot down by fighters south of the town... Caught...

Getting my Own Back

I only had about 12 months after I left school before I joined the air force….and my father was...