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Soweya Short Story

When i was a boy my mother told me that when she was a young girl she used to go to play...

A Happy Evacuation

My great granddad worked for the Railways which meant my granddad and his mum could travel back to London...

Evacuated

An Aunt and Uncle were relocated there as my Uncle was a teacher at a school in Westminster and the whole...

Child in Wartime

My sister and myself lived in Grays in Essex and went to different schools and as l was the eldest l had...

Memories from Wartime Grimsby of Tommy Handly

The comedian, Tommy Handly, ranked almost alongside Winston Churchill as one of the great morale boosters...

Flying bomb procedure at ´óÏó´«Ã½ Kingswood Warren

the over nighters

My two Aunts Ede and Lil worked in a factory doing something nevertalked about. gran stayed at home and...

View From The Train - Bristol On Fire

My parents originated in the Stroud area, and we still had lots of relatives there, and used to visit them...

No sweets

My dad was in the Army too old for active service. My mum went to work in the Chilprufe factory office in...

Memories of a Worthing Schoolboy

Whilst delivering bread in Canterbury Road, West Worthing, the air raid siren sounded and I heard a German...

Doodle Bug

As I went to work at Lilley and Skinner, Pentonville Road, it wasn't to type but instead to clear up...

Ahford's North School Secretary

For one year of the war I was a pupil of Ashford's North School for Girls. When I turned 14 however I...

Memories of a child

Blackout curtains at the window the sound of the air raid warning searchlights lighting up a black cross on...

WORK - farming, water collection.

For what is known in Cornwall as Codling water we had a large mine boiler in the farmyard which virtually...

My childhood during WW2

Eric was brought up not far from his future wife, Mavis, in London. He remembers the first twelve months of...

Interesting account

The things that will all ways stop with me after these years but why do we remember I was so young?. I...

Moving to Leicester

We had no phones to warn Granny Charlotte so that when dad arrived to pick her up she was ready for bed...

Memories of ATC: Inspection by Queen Mary

Harry and his friends were playing cricket in the grounds of Badminton House using just coats as wickets....

Rusty Garnet's War

The one thing I remember was we were moved to York from Manchester, into new accommodation and left the...

The Taste of Bananas?

When she heard this, she was astonished — how had my sister got hold of some bananas when she...

VE Day & VJ Day

YE Day was celebrated by both adults and children dancing on the square where the buses turned round on...

Doing our bit for the war effort.

We had boys from Portsmouth-secondary school children. Ihad an orange dress with whitespots and my baby...

A First Born Son

When I next saw him, several months after that, a fascinating thing happened when I used some cine film to...

On the Home Front

Bridget chose the Munitions, she did want to go in the Land Army but her mother didn't want her to go,...

Billeted Soldiers

That morning a knock came on the front door, when we opened it a Police Sergeant and an Army Sergeant stood...

A Taste of Dust

At the age of three my brother and myself were sent to nursery school because my mother was working in...