Every Friday Tommy Torr would take me on his bicycle cross-bar to pick up his weekly wage... It was so...
My story,very brief attempts to convey the lasting inmpression on a 5year old boy and on the entire street...
I remember going down into the shelters and one night we woke up my brother and I were on bunks and my...
I was evacuated from Uckfield, Sussex, to Port Talbot SouthWales in 1944 — I suspect this was the...
I was in London all through the V1s – the London Blitz. I went to an end of the war street party...
Early in the morning of D.Day we looked up to see the sky full of Planes towing Gliders being joined by...
My sister Lillian was selected by the Rhyl May Day Committee to be the May Queen in 1945. The people of...
When it was considered safe we boarded the bus again and carried on to school — as we approached the...
The reason for the tanks being in the streets of Gosport was that they were embarking at several beaches...
Dad was away serving in the RAF and, apart from my elder brother, my world was very much female dominated -...
In 1938 I was secretary to Mr CV Clarke of the Low Loading Trailer Company in Bedford... Mr Clarke's...
A couple of years later, the war still on, we lads would walk the streets following an air raid looking for...
It landed on the main railway line at Grove Road, Mile End, and we found out later that it wasn't a...
The soldier was standing on top of the sandbags banked towards us and in doing so his wing hit the soldier...
They all invaded the village that night and all joined hands with the locals around the Town Hall, which...
I was evacuated to Winsford on the 2nd September 1939 from Westminster Road School, Kirkdale, along with my...
The locality played it's part in the way effort by providing various military sites, such as the...
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It is never the ordinary people of the land who start wars....
All four of the younger children were evacuated to the north of England. We were taken from Pound Lane...
A bomb bursting nearby threw up a deadly shower of debris, effectively sand blasting his brand new badge...
I was about a year old when war started, living in North Ely, Cardiff â€â€œ near the...
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