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We were put onto trains at Paragon Station in Hull by the schoolteachers and we were sent to Scarborough......
The incendiary bomb had landed in the lap of my large teddy bear sitting in my doll's pram....
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She also used to read to me which was probably very useful because the large number of evacuees in...
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Then when a plane was shot down near us we used to collect the parts, aluminium parts, hydraulic piping,...
I remember travelling to my grandparents in West Wales, travelling overnight by train, being hemmed in by...
Lo and behold, in my money bag she found a cigarette lighter, it was a tiny souvenir made by a friend...
It was 1940 and Christmas, they had closed the Theatres, but Manchester Palace Theatre was still open and...
They were going up the Mounts from Castle Station walking slowly in the road going to St Crispin's Hall...
In December 1945, I found myself on a train with my Dad on the way to Blackburn in Lancashire, I was to...
The only accommodation suitable for troops was at Seskinore, one mile from where I lived and also in...
The last time I had been home was in September 1942 to get married to my sweetheart Doris at Strete Village...
Mrs Jean Wilson comes from Monks town in Newtownabbey, as a child Jean lived in Riga St. the heart of the...
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