I can remember at the school we were at in Harborne we were photogrpahed putting those strips of sticky...
My parents and I lived in Thornton Heath near Croydon. Another time he had just walked through Thornton...
Dad kept hens, and the people in the end house had a pig. Several people, including us, gave money, and...
I knew these bombs travelled a little further before they landed, and I was convinced it would land on our...
I shouted "It's me Jimmy, Nan" "What you doing out in the blackout, get yourself away down...
My only other recollection is of my elder brother collecting 'shrapnel' and of him going to the...
When things looked bad for Britain and Churchill said we would never give in but fight, a villager called...
I remember a street near to where i lived was bombed badly, however the row of houses where i lived seemed...
I caught a train to Truro in Cornwall and then on to Falmouth and my home town, Flushing. I remember how...
My Mum and I were visiting friends in Headley. We always kept in touch, but there is nothing quite like...
I worked in a solicitors office in Pall MAll and walked through St James Park to the office.One day on my...
I still remember watching searchlights dancing across the sky, the crackle of gunfire like some gigantic...
I remember a lone German bomber came over the fields by Lostock Hall and jettisoned a bomb. At Christmas in...
There was a "Dig for Britain" campaign because there were food shortages and food was...
I can see him now; he had bright ginger hair and a long ginger beard, and me mother thought — poor...
When troops were coming back from Dunkirk, the trains stopped at Tonbridge station. My other memories of...
Mum took us to see the remains of Coventry Cathedral after it was bombed... After thirty years they came...
During August 1939 we went on holiday to the Gower coast in South Wales, where Lord Haugh Haugh dropped...
We had bedding, blankets and bits of food and candles... My mum used to make suet pudding, bacon and onion...
I was about four in 1942, but I can remember the Italian P.O.W reparing the roads in my village Binley,...
My sister Dori and I, were evacuated from Tottenham to the outskirts of Northampton in October 1940, our...
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