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Lucky escape on a Farm

I looked up and saw a Donier German aircraft, which was flying quite low. It appears that this was the...

WE ALSO ATE TULIP BULBS

WE ALSO ATE TULIP BULBS...

Life on a Farm

I always loved the country and animals so I joined the Land Army as soon as I was 18... I lived in...

One Of Their's

My uncle and aunt evacuated to live with us during the war and at one point my uncle mentioned he saw some...

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An alleyway of bombed houses

Pam felt very lucky as her home was not bombed during the Blitz, especially as she lived close to lots of...

Was He the Enemy?

It was just outside the walls of Bretton Hall near Wakefield in West Yorkshire, at that time an active and...

Memories of the War Years

During the winter months my father and brother helped clear the surrounding lanes with the large wooden...

Bombs on Milford St

One night a plane came over and dropped 5 bombs in Milford Street, along by the cinema. He rode a motorbike...

The Pram

So there we were, making our way towards a station when all of a sudden the pram slipped from my grasp and...

Salisbury Life.

He rode a motorbike in the army and had to go to London for training and I stayed and worked in the...

Prisoners at Bulwel

We had evacuees from London the girl who was called Ursula Barrat We, my brother and I didn't like her...

Orphanage Avoids Doodlebug

A man in a black suit and bowler hat and a woman in a grey suit, her hair in a tight bun,...

My Memories of WW2

The Early Years

Mum covered mine in a canvas blackout material.I still come out in goose bumps when I hear moaning...

Walking on hot coals

I was only a small child during the war and three evacuees came to stay with us for 18 months — Pat,...

I remember the war

I can remember being in the Anderson shelter in the garden when a stick of bombs landed very close... I...

School Days

One big exciting episode I remember at school was a shipload of apples came to Britain from Canada - all...

Life as a Farm Hand

Jack Whitehead was born in 1921 in Nelson. In 1935, when he left school, Jack decided to go to Whalley to...

Doodlebugs, spare fuel tanks and boats!

Doodlebugs, spare fuel tanks and boats. So when spare fuel tanks were dropped around us, I thought to...

Wartime Memories - Win Lawrence

Apparently her family had lived just outside London and her father — who worked at Mount Pleasant for...

Philip Rowland

Philip, only son of Philip and Emily Rowland, husband of a mere five months to Mildred, was killed by enemy...

On a farm in Cornwall

Our farm was in the in the village of South Petherwin, near Launceston in Cornwall and 25 miles from...

Wartime childhood memories in The Meadows

I remember mum talking about the laundry on the embankment being bombed, I think she was out, she said she...

1939 - Holiday’s over; war’s on; sweets are cheap.

I was on the beach with my mother at Broadstairs in Kent at 11 o'clock on 3.9.39... Remembering stories...

Evacuation to Brighton

When it was Harry's seventh birthday, Mrs Redman laid on a party for him in the garden and Mum and Dad...

Party for 800 children

Having determined give a party at which every child in the village should be present, the...

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