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Memories of D-Day in Worthing

The town was like one big barracks with a mass of different nationalities including Canadians, Americans...

Week Long Shindig With The Americans

At the time of the evacuation of Dunkirk I answered a call to hand out tea and buns at the station to...

A1100250 - seeing as a child

The airfield was surrounded with pillboxes and ofcourse barbwire which was not much of a deterrent for a...

Choir Practice at Manchester Cathedral

I was from St.Luke's church choir in Weaste and we had come to Manchester Cathedral to practice singing...

LUCKILY THE MOAT WAS DRY

It was late 1942 and I was to be taught at the Sir John Cass technical insulate for 6 months before on...

Fun and Fears

As a toddler bedtime was fun on certain nights... Also the powdered egg, crystalised jelly and best of all...

Six Eggs

There were a lot of areas that were bombed, Litherland, Bootle, all around... But under the stairs had a...

Wartime memories

I have quite vivid memories of my wartime childhood. For instance, as a repetitive 'flag' seller...

LUCKFLY THE MOAT WAS DRY

It was late 1942 and I was to be taught at the Sir John Cass texhnical insulate for 6 months before on...

My 5th birthday

My uncle Eric was in the Royal Navy, in minesweepers, and I remember him bringing my brother David and...

Money or your Life

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

Sitting Waiting for the All Clear

In our house he decided that the passage on the ground floor that led from the kitchen to two of our...

Jackie Melson's Memories of the Home Front in Oxford

Name Jackie Melson Interview Date 27th April 2005 Subjects covered Childhood, V.E. Day Location Oxford,...

American Childhood

I remember the first Christmas we had in America, I remember what fun it was and we were deluged with...

OUTBREAK OF WAR - birthday, exciting, windows protected.

His story was given to the Trebah WW2 Video Archive, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2004. Others...

Somerset here we come

But there was not toilet on the bus and some of the children were sick and some wetted themselves so at our...

The War through the eyes of a child.

FAMILY: I'm the youngest of six and some of my brothers and sisters went into the Army. Because of the...

Firemen

We would report to the station-let ourselves in- and I would contact headquarters by means of the telephone...

The Cat that Laid the Egg

Well one day my dad got tired of hearing "this isnt as good as london's this" and "London...

Birmingham Evacuee

When I was thirteen and living in Skegby, Nottinghamshire, I remember an eight year old girl evacuee from...

My Quiet Dis-Quiet

On 13th September 1940 I went to Ashford station and off we went on a long, long trip to Wales... When I...

August School Holidays

My small brother was complaining that he was all hot and wanted a drink of water. We were, in fact, at...

John May remembers

As we approached the station, and Eastwood Road, there was a lot of activity; the lower section of Eastwood...

Life in Wartime Leicestershire.

In September 1939 I was working in the Surveyor's Office of our local Rural District Council in the...

Not allowed to play

I was evacuated to my aunt and uncle in Herefordshire; we didn't go to school if there were potatoes or...

My Mother鈥檚 Memory

This isn't really a story, just a memory that my mother, Glad Aiton, told me when I was in my thirties....