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During recent air-raids, my father would not come to the shelter but chose to sit in the front-room with my...

Wartime Childhood Memories

He also kept chickens and stored eggs in isonglass for use when the hens were not laying... I remember the...

A small girl's memories of the war.

About 4 adults and 4 children crowded under the cubby hole. We used to have paper bags with cocoa powder...

The Homecoming

The girl landed dead in the tree, hanging from her long hair. On the day I met my husband who had just...

Evacuation to Eastbourne

We walked down to Streatham Common station in pairs as our mothers walked behind us crying... We ended up...

Snow on my Blanket

I was in bed in a Nissan Hut --when suddenly I felt something very soft on my face. The "biscuits"...

Rosemary's Story

My childhood memories were living with my grandparents, always a housefull of Forces People which were...

BITS AND PIECES OF AMERICAN SOLDIERS

Victoria Park at the top of London Road adjacent to Tichborne Street was a rallying point for soldiers...

Labelled

Worse than hell at times So many don't realise Spending a well-earned penny Friends together A real...

Evacuation, housing, bombs and rations. Part two: Housing.

We were offered a room at the home of my Auntie Hilda and Uncle Norbert Horton... I remember one gloomy...

St.Johns

In 1942, I got married; my husband was in the St. Johns, he used to go on duty when the raids were...

Zylo Works

She worked from 7am to 7pm in a factory in Brighton called 鈥淶YLO WORKS鈥� which made nameplates...

Growing up in WW2

At my school children were being taught safety procedures in the event of an Air raid In my school,St...

VE day in Maidstone

All the regiments were coming back, sailors from Chatham, pilots from West Malling and soldiers from...

Adventures on Dartford Heath

After we were bombed out in 1941 we moved to a cheap 1930s semi-detached rented house in Chastiliann Road...

Wartime Childhood Memories

As part of our studies into World War 2 we had a visit from Miss Dorothy Davidson... There are hundreds of...

A Backward Glance

Another major picture was the great bulk of the R101 goingabove the hills I lived in N.London, a few hours...

Evacuation 1944

In 1944 pupils from Sutton East School in Surrey were evacuated to Dukinfield near Manchester in Cheshire...

V E Day Memories of Allan Curtis

On a bright sunny morning on September 3rd 1939, at Bishop Burton, the headmistress of the village school...

Life on the Farm

We had eggs, milk and cream from the farm and I used to barter it for sugar and tea. It was quite...

High class ladies lingerie

At 14 I came back to our home in Coventry, to start work at Liggens in Vernon Street making high class...

It All Started With Chamberlain.

I had a brother who was older than me, eighteen and still young, and he was killed at Dunkirk. I was at...

The Day The Sergeant Major Closed Our Shop

We sold everything including bread and cakes and were often frequented by soldiers from the Royal Artillery...

Roy Henley 鈥� Bombs Interrupt Abbot & Costello

Not yards from the cinema I suddenly tripped, I'd walked right into a bomb!...

Denis remembers the war years

When the bombs came the safest place in the house was in the cellar, or under the stairs if you didn't...

A View from a child

George recalls walking along Tavistock Road when a German plane flew over and dropped a load of incendiary...