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The Manchester Blitz, remembered by a twelve year old girl

My father, James Crabtree, had his solicitor's office in Fountain Street. The building adjoining had...

A Rocket From The Sky

Anyway, I had been delivering some correspondence to ‘Kents’ next to Commers and had come back...

Cigarettes under the counter at Rugby Midland

At Rugby Midland there was a refreshment room, which he told me was not dissimilar to the one at Carnforth...

My World War 2 Story

My wife and child lived in St. Stephens Road Sneinton and I worked on armoured vehicles including...

My grandparents ww2 memories

He was evacuated to Caister near Grimbsy from Hunslet because a clothing factory that made uniforms for the...

A Shattered Family

Schooldays

We could have Horlicks instead of milk... Our headmistress was a great lady, besides the above items, she...

A Schoolboys Wartime memories

The first recollection that I have of the war was standing in the garden of my Aunt and Uncle when my Aunt...

Sunny Weekend: July 1940

Aa wore me red Sunday best coat With the black velvet collar Shorley Temple's patent leather shoes And...

Evacuation to London before the German Occupation of Guernsey

Just a few days, because I was working at Maison Florence in Smith St, where the Post Office is now, my...

A happy wartime childhood

Our dog would bark at the door the instant the siren went to get down to the shelter - I had a...

Cod Liver Oil in Hailing

A I lived at 86 Elaine Avenue, Strood in Kent, with my twin Delia and big sister Joan. A I remember...

Canadian soldiers swimming

Early in the war the pool closed for reasons I can't recall, but connected with an outbreak of polio,...

Chickens and War

On September 3rd 1939 I was evacuated to Caernarfonshire, Wales, along with Marjorie, my older brother...

The best laid plans ...

Walkerville had a nasty raid and I remember Manners goods-yard being bombed. At home in Newburn, everyone...

Berlin 1942 Our dog

It took Carrie until the following morning to come round from her stupor, but she was no worse for the...

School in the Air Raid shelters

They were corrugated iron round huts and were covered with grass which the children used to play on in...

Schoolboy to Soldier (1)

It was exactly like the ´óÏó´«Ã½ comedy programme ‘Dad's Army’ and George was rather like...

A Prewar Christmas

'A Prewar Christmas' was written for the children of Dr. Griffiths of Landscape House by Fanny...

Bombing of Totnes, Devon during the day in 1942

I always sat by my friend Maureen Ferris and behind me sat two bous John Norley and Tony Bowhay. They pused...

Fermanagh in Wartime

So my sister, she got a hold of him and I hit him with the pump. And then later when I came...

German parachutist in Convent School Grotto

German parachutist in Convent School Grotto...

the bombing of the Hague.

My story is about the bombing by the British RAF of an area in the Hague. So, the British tried to bomb...

Visitors from Overseas

Mum was very suspicious of all people who were not British, and near where we lived was a large house...

A sweet side to evacuation!

We all had our names pinned to our jackets, gas masks and brown paper bags which were filled with food, we...

Plane Crash at Colyton: Parachutist Lands at Farway

W C William Bailey and Gordon Snell, both in the Home Guard, put on their hats and tunics and motored in a...