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SEEING IS BELIEVING

After about a week Albert's friend Bill called in... When Albert came home from work his friend told...

Gruesome find

After we moved to Bexleyheath in about 1943-44, it was the time the V Ones and the Doodlebugs coming over,...

Ray Keat's Life in Dover as a Child

Ray Keats's Life in Dover as a Child....

Ribbons in Trees

I was born in Dallow Road Luton then we moved to Villa Road, I had a very happy childhood with two...

My Great Grandmother By Sophie Bembridge

They had two children one boy named Eugene and a girl named Joan. Many thanks to Miss Karen Richards and to...

The Wood Yard

The Wood Yard...

School Days at Romsey School and the Central School

I was playing at the rec on Colleridge Road and another child ran over and said 'the wars...

The story of Stefan's granda

He was feeling sick one day and couldn't go on the navy ship H.M.S Asphol but his younger brother did...

Very Young Memories of the War from North Hull

We were back in Hull on the real VE Day I remember the neighbours, they were all sat eating their...

Burnt to a Cinder

In 1943 I was a young bride living in Liverpool as my husband was issuing arms from the Liver building on...

Coping with Bad News

News came through that my elder sister, Nona, was seriously ill in an Australian military hospital in...

Memories of Eccles--The Show Must Go On

There were lots of happy times too---plenty of entertainment was organised in the parks, on Sunday evenings...

Concerning my Grandmother

My grandmother, who was in her eighties, lived with her unmarried daughter in Russell Street, and I could...

Memories of War

I was sent to the Lincoln High School for girls at 14 Minster Yard as a boarder. When air raid warnings...

The Flag in the Garden

In my father's section was an automatic Luger pistol, a momento of the first World War and a Nazi...

Share and Share Alike

We walked to a camp, our lads were on guard at the gate and we landed in front of an English Major,...

A 6 Year Old Evacuees Story

When I finally came home the bombs were very bad in Derby, the Germans were after Rolls Royce. When the...

Memories of War

I was sent to the Lincoln High School for girls at 14 Minster Yard as a boarder. When air raid warnings...

Shelter at Portland Walk.

I was about 7yrs old at the beginning of the war and I lived in Portland Walk, Diglis, Worcester. We could...

1)Strange planes in fields. 2) Fraternising with the enemy

Two of the girls from my class, one with brown hair the other blonde began talking to the Italians... We...

A Wasted Talent

His crime was that he had been an active member of Oswald Mosley's British Union and was obviously...

A survivor

When the Germans rampaged through Poland at the beginning of the hostilities, they razed a village, Ludice,...

Evacuated to Chichester

We lived in 3 Denis Park Crescent, Wimbledon SW20, my brother Allan, parents George and Doris. When France...

German Air Raids

By morning light we explored and found that an ‘aeriel torpedo’ had landed on the local...

John Sweetman — Rationing in Ashford

I lived in Ashford before being evacuated away, and remember a place called Davis’ Butchers. Every...

A German speaking mother

When she visited Germany as an Oxford undergraduate in the mid 1930s she bought a book of political...