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All Part of The War Effort

Well, I think that wasn't rationed the wool for the Navy, but if you wanted coloured wool or anything...

My Shiny New Tricycle.

My 6th birthday was on September 1st, 1939 and the present I got for my birthday was this grand, spanking...

My Wartime Memory by Audrey Harnett (nee Thurlow)

I was a pupil at Rochester Grammar School and Betty was due to start there that month, so we were both...

"If they whistle twice, we鈥檒l have to stop.鈥�

My mother did her very best, and discovered a couple who drove in a little van every morning to checkpoint....

My Wartime

I used to go to dance halls in Plymouth and dance with the American's and the English men... Wartime...

Edna's Story

My family home was in the village of Minster on the Isle of Sheppey and we lived in the last house in...

Mum's Custard Powder

I was 19 when I joined the Women's Land Army and lived next door to the farm I worked on near Newchurch...

Egg Collecting

Apart from the eggs that we collected from the Pigeon and the Moorhen, we also collected other wild...

Announcement of War

That is until the Germans started to bomb London... We would lie in bed my sister and I and watch the...

Evacuees (Garibaldi Biscuits)

This lady, Mrs Wright, said alright I'll take them both and then at Christmas decided she didn't...

Death threat

Clive Greaves was living in the middle of London and was only 3 when the war broke out. I remember on one...

Phoney war

Fathers and uncles were being recruited into the services, iron railings were confiscated from our front...

Belper Fire Service Headquarters

My earliest memory is on the Sunday afternoon when Churchill announced on the radio that 'we are now at...

The Bad and the Good of WW2

Children under 8 got Mickey Mouse masks, but we had adult ones. We were caught in between with the bombs...

Childhood Memories at Aust, Gloucestershire.

A few months after war was declared they put a searchlight on the hill above the village, and when it was...

Some Memories Of My Childhood During WW2 by Valerie Davey nee Russell.

Some Memories Of My Childhood During WW2 by Valerie Davey nee Russell. I went with my mother, little sister...

Mud Glorious Mud

I lived in Newquay with my parents, elder brother and younger sister... It was thought he was aiming for St...

Wartime memories of teaching

When war broke out, the Brewery offered the Wolverhampton Education Authority three of their vaults for the...

"SOLDIERS ON THE DOORSTEP"

Sergeant Hepburn was in charge of the company mascot 鈥� a huge St Bernard dog called Butch. Sergeant...

The Southgates of Lindbergh Road

One night, on about the 25th August 1942, a German plane, searching for Ipswich Airport, followed a trolley...

Fleeting encounter with German plane

I was on holiday in Torquay in August 1942 and the chap who eventually became my brother-in-law was with me...

Rosemary Longley 鈥� Sirens at School

I remember huddling in that cloakroom with some other children many many times, it was small and dark with...

Contact with the occupying Forces in Guernsey

Martha Martel interviewed by Lynne Ashton of the Guernsey Museum. I can remember, we had the North Cinema,...

War time memories of Birmingham

Right in the middle of the war we lived right in the centre of Birmingham, ...evacuees; and we remember...

Lancaster virtually had no cars at all

And I can always remember Barrow being bombed: because the aeroplanes used to come in from Germany very...

A near thing!

I was born in January 1934 and we moved to Sanderstead near Croydon in 1935... War came and we found...