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Lincoln is no safer than Leeds!

Lincoln is no safer than Leeds. There was also Lincoln cathedral that was a great landmark for planes so we...

Propaganda

As it was, we did discover that Opel cars were made in Germany and, what is more, with their characteristic...

The Artificial Leg (before the NHS)

She helped him to take the leg off and limp home, while I pushed the pram as well as I could, with...

Evacuation.

Catherine lived in Salford before the war, and she was 11 when war was declared... The woman who was...

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Chock's Away

I had volunteered to be in the R.A.F. The first plane that I flew was a Tiger Moth at Manchester Airport. I...

Sneaking a Peak at the Dogfights

In 1940 I was at junior school in Ashford by the railway station one afternoon when there came a very loud...

The pub's got some drink!!

My Father and Brother-in-law were very serious men in all ways until one evening word went round that the...

Nearly hit three times, but still lucky

We were nearly bombed out three times; Once we were in the passage, and the windows blew out, the door blew...

Trouble on the Trainicon for Story with photo

This is a story about the adventures we had as Land Girls in the Land Army -- looking after the fields...

Swaps

Most of the shrapnel we collected was from British shells that were fired by anti-aircraft guns and then...

Saved by the Window Cleaner

It was the local window cleaner and his barrow consisted of a wooden box on two bicycle wheels, to carry...

Saved by a Muck Heap

The following story was given by Sylvia Parkinson at the Dover Castle Party to commemorate the 60th...

Spitfire week

Our head teacher, miss Chesterfield told us in assembly one morning that we were to have a visit from a...

Lovely evacuees but difficulties with billletting

Eventually we found his mother and a baby had been evacuated to a village not far from ours in Somerset, so...

A Friend's Experience of WW2

My reasearch has very kindly been given to me by a very friendly neighbour in her 70's, She sed "i...

Boom went the bombs

When the war started I was a little girl aged three, but can recall when at school ,if the siren sounded...

Blackpool Boarding House Memories

They took airmen in the boarding house and Dutch sailors in the hotel. Before the airmen/forces were...

Eiderdown Potatoes

My mother would put potatoes in the oven early evening, then when the siren sounded would wrap me in an...

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Everyone’s going to Grandmas

I can remember lying on a mattress in my Grandmothers room. My mum threw water on it, which wasn't...

A Holiday Encounter

A close friend of the family, allowed my Mum and Aunt with her three children, myself and two Sisters the...

Machine Gunned in Oxford Road, Manchester

One evening, in 1942, my mum and I were trying to cross Oxford Road, Manchester, whilst coming from my...

My Life(aged 6) During The War

I was 6 yrs old when war broke out, my father was Joseph Knowles and he worked at the brick works... Living...

Encounter with an air raid shelter

My name is William Raymond Pope... I lived at 9 Kimberly Gardens, Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne....

The telegram boy always brings bad news

Early in the war the boy next door had been killed and his family had learnt by telegram....

From Erith to Exeter - An Evacuee's Story

My history of the WW2 — MargaretThomas I was in Erith Baptist Chapel when war was declared from the...

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