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Sixty Years On

In July 1945 I was pregnant with my first child having waited until the hostilities were almost over before...

Jean's story

At the end of the war the American soldiers would send food and cigarettes to the pitmen, Jean still has a...

Wartime in London - A Schoolgirl's Memories

The doodle bugs became very frequent and my mother took my sister and myself on the train to Liverpool...

My Memories

When the bombs dropped dad was working and we all had to go down to help clear up at Freeman, Hardy and...

Life at Parley Common during the War.

We lived at Parley Common, which was very isolated, and although it was just by the Airport and there were...

The mines with the Bevan Boys or the army?

The mines with the Bevan Boys or the army. On one bright October morning in 1944 I stood on the platform on...

Ted's WW2 memories

We were close to the Chatham Royal Dockyard, so bombing was intense. That night, 4 bombs were dropped; an...

Light up the sky.

One morning Dad told us that during the blackout last night a huge glow suddenly lit up the sky in the...

Hard work on the Farm

It was a wooden affair, with a hole for a seat-that was strange enough to a 10 year old, but when I...

Teenage Helpers in WW2

We were given black police bikes to ride with the letters L.C.D.C. on. You can imagine what we looked like...

Childhood memories

Therefore he was not required to serve in the Second World War and did his bit as an Air Raid Warden. The...

Signal Woman

The box was called 'Anfield Sidings', it was high up alongside Anfield Cemetery and very scary when...

Anderson Shelters

Any German airman worth his salt, Turning homeward in the early dawn, Would spot at once that someone like...

The Trauma Of Evacuees From Big Cities

This is a short story about the plight of evacuees and their parents who sent their children from London to...

Chiswick London and Broadstairs Kent during the War.

Chiswick London and Broadstairs Kent during the War. My Grandfather was an Air Raid Warden and my father...

My Mothers Escape

At the outbreak of war, I lived with my Mother Norah, brother Brian, and father Charles in Mitcham in...

Dad Saves Children During Bomb Raid

I think sometimes that those of us who were children during World War are "forgotten". My memories...

The Day War Broke Out

That included my family, my cousin Lesley plus two evacuees who were billeted at the farm where my father...

evacuated to Lancing, East Sussex

On arriving in Lancing along with the other London school children, we were put in a hall in North Lancing...

VE BIG Thank You Day

Jack Whitehead an 83 year old man from the worst period in history-World War 2... Jack didn't get...

Manchester/ Stretford/Salford

She lived near the railway and the docks, and cycled home where her mother would have the dinner ready, but...

A Portrait on any Subject

So I wrote a sarcastic portrait of the headmaster, it went something like: He was grinning from ear to ear,...

A World War II Memory

It was not long before the sirens sounded and aeroplanes came over dropping their bombs. As soon as the...

He Was Only A Small Man (Wrenbury Remembers P.12)

Then because he was cunning and greedy He made others give him their wealth To champion the cause of the...

The Second Day of War

My friends and I were 11 years old and we were at Hitchin swimming pool as we were having a gathering at...

Constables Farm, Little Common

I remember a Spitfire coming down at the bottom of our front meadow, a friend and I went down and rescued...