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School children ate carrots as sweets were rationed. We ate so may carrots our skin turned orange —...
I lived in Cardiff in a big industrial area near the docks. Food was short, and we often had to queue at...
I was evacuated with my older brother at the start of the war from Walthamstowto St Just-in Penwith which...
Basil was brought up in a small village called Great Finborough. There was a constant procession of...
A bunch of the girls left the room and returned with the papers they had removed, and we got the usual...
I remember seeing doodlebugs flying over Kent. We listen to the wireless at nights and the battery was...
We were living in Enfield, just outside London, when the war started and the heavy bombing lit up the sky...
My father was in the army and doing his training at the Ness in Shaldon, Devon. Another memory I have is in...
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