Soon after we had gone to bed, the noise of the sirens woke us up and we could hear the enemy planes...
The rest used British Restaurants. I moved to North Luffenham in Rutland with my stepfather, he was a fire...
When we arrived at Seaford Station we were marched to a school hall where there was a billeting officer,...
We had a bathroom for which the hot water was produced by the cooking range downstairs with pipes going up...
My mother was walking through Bantock Park one day and saw a German aircraft flying really low. She...
Kidderminster centre from Town Hall to Bull Ring was solid with a high percentage of Kidderminster...
Gordon's father was a naval lieutenant and in January 1943 I was invited to stay with Gordon and his...
Her grandparents lived in a farmhouse, when the American soldiers came over they housed some of them before...
There was a Morrison shelter indoors and an Anderson shelter outdoors which I slept in with my brother....
We used to go down into the pantry.Our raid siren sounded like a motor horn There were rumours there was a...
My father George Haynes, worked as a Costing Clerk at Bristol Aeroplane Company and during his spare time...
From every throat comes a joyful cry, We get out our cups for the tea we buy And produce cake, bread and...
Innsworth Camp was being built - saw all Czechs, Belgians, Poles and French troops passing through from...
My Father had a petrol pump in his garages for use in the haulage business and from time to time, I had...
Both in Stranmillis hospital and in Bangor. I think they were very family-minded, the Germans, in their own...
We were evacuated from Derby to Ripley-only ten miles! Everyone was dancing in the streets of Derby....
When my granda John Gibson was around six years old, he and his older brother, Norman aged 7, were...
Hot tea was being handed out to them on arrival which they received gratefully, but for many the one thing...
And in that square was the dairy farm — Ross's Dairy Farm. Or else the other place they had was...
Another brother and sister were also to stay with Mr and Mrs Sears but Mrs Sears could not cope with all...
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