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Dive, dive dive - It's a V2 Rocket

Miss Hodges.-classmates Marilyn Brimble and Ruth Location: - Luton Bedfordshire. The factory was in the...

The Brighter Side of Life in Wartime East Manchester

The Openshaw area of Manchester had many air raids and bombs, as there was a concentration of heavy...

Nine Hours From the Bombs

The evacuees who had been sent down from London had already been sent on again and in due course we Ashford...

My First Memory of the War.

Just three and a half years old, Audrey accompanied her beloved father as he set off for battle from...

Birth announcements by wireless

Video recording of Jack Ross interviewed by John Gaisford made on 12/3/2005 Edited transcript by J David...

Wartime in Devizes

I started work in a small office next to the railway station that has now gone. I was also there to see...

evacuation

I was evacuated to Regina Sasketchewan, Canada in 1940 when I was 8... Because of the rules governing the...

Evacuee to Renhold, Bedfordshire

The following memories of Mr. George Hedger were recorded at the VE/VJ Celebrations event held on 13th...

Has Rangoon fallen?

We had a current affairs lesson once a week taken by the Deputy Head Mistress... The radio shop owner was...

War around the Austin - Part Two

"There was one small story I was going to tell you concerning my brother, he died as I say in 2004, he...

VE Day For A Lad In Canterbury

I was living with my family in 15 Querns Road, Canterbury. The stuff that was thrown on there; if it would...

I was a Land Army girl

After spending the weekend with my Great Uncle William and Grandmother, Harriet in Polegate, I was on my...

LEAVING HOME

Later my parents had been bombed out of their shop in London and had moved to Braintree, Essex, so I never...

Evacuated to Ballymoney

I was evacuated to Ballymoney and my two brothers, Tom and Desmond, were evacuated to Dunmurray, which was...

Fond Memories of the Siren Suit by a Child in Penge

The Air Raids were mostly at night and sometimes if there was one about 11 o clock we would hear this man,...

THE DAY WAR BROKE OUT....

My own memory is that I was helping my brother Jim, by pushing a handcart and delivering milk for him while...

We Thought War Would Be Like a Film with Errol Flynn

When the Manchester blitz came, we were bombed out of our house in Rosamund Street and given a council...

The Bombing of John Cave's

My sister and I both worked in the closing room of John Cave and we were there on that auful morning when...

Childhood in Birmingham

I moved to Birmingham in 1944 just as the, rockets and, V1's and V2's had started... You could hear...

The Last Banana

As sustenance, I took two bananas in a brown paper bag, bought at the village shop... I never knew where I...

Schoolboy Blitz Memories

I can remember as a young boy with my elder brothers and sister being rushed into a makeshift...

Clare Harrison's Childhood Memories from Liverpool

Childhood memories

The day it was declared my mother gave all four children a shopping list -...

Camborne girl

When I was back home in Cornwall, a bomb fell in Camborne high street and went through the smallest shop in...

Happiest Days of My Life

When the war began I was at Luton High School for Girls and we shared our school for the first winter with...

Trapped in home

Because we lived in country village and she had three small children, she used to put us under the stairs...