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FASHION CONSCIOUS

Everything was rationed including furniture and clothes and it was extremely difficult to buy...

Wartime birth

The nursing home were I was going to have my baby closed and all the mothers around Thornton Heath were...

ww11 contribution

I know this is only a short story,and I wasn,t born until it was all over,but I am glad to have told...

True Misremembering

I must have been there before, and yet V.E. had only just happened when At Dad's 鈥淩e-pat鈥�,...

Paraffin Burners For Smoke Screens

After being bombed out we moved to a semi-detached house in Chastilian Road, near Dartford Heath. When I...

Rocket Blast

All the cakes and bread had to be thrown out along with 7lb jars of sweets and all the friut and vegatables...

Cowboys and Indians.

We lost in our own little world of cowboys and indians. Afterall to us the war with all its fighting was...

GERMAN PLANE OVER ST IVES WHILST BLACKBERRY PICKING

We got back to Porthmeor Hill to hear a mother and her daughter had been killed by the second bomb... We...

one of the boys

In 1939 the government wanted recruits and if you didnt want to go in the army you could go down the pits...

Scarlet Fever in South Africa

In September 1940 I was evacuated with my sister Rosemary and brother David to South Africa....

The Wireless

"On the 大象传媒 it was sort of, they'd say: 鈥渆nemy action, there were bombs dropped in the home...

A foolish boy

It was 1941 and I was working as a "breadboy" for the Co-op meaning that we had a horse and cart...

Hard Work, Blisters and a Husband

I was in the Women's Land Army or the Forgotten Army for 3 陆 years. I don't think all of this...

Handing out Chocolate to the Evacuees

I was given a table and 2oz bars of Cadbury's Dairy Milk chocolate and I was supposed to give out one...

Halifax 1939

I started work in March 1939 in the offices at Patons and Baldwins, Clark Bridge Mills, Halifax. We did...

Evacuation to Workington

This story has been entered onto this site by Leanne and Louise on behalf of Joan Gibson and they fully...

Snippets from schoolgirl in London

The night they bombed Colindale Aerodrome I was in a shelter in Sunny Garden Park, which was a huge above...

Dodging Bullets

At the time we were moving to Yorkshire and my father, an army chaplain, was tired and pulled off the road...

A Lucky Escape

We were due to have sailed on the S.S. Athenia which was was mistaken for an armoured cruiser by a U boat...

Maureen Butler's First Memories of Britain at War

I was playing in the garden with my brother, Michael and some friends....

Collecting Shrapnel

We children used to collect shrapnel from the bombs and rockets and swap pieces. One of my relations was a...

The End Of The Party

Friends In WW2 my grandpa and one of the other men became really close friends, like best friends, his name...

Poster Propaganda

Save Fuel to make Munitions for Battle". "Beat Firebomb Fritz, Britain Shall Not Burn. THIS IS AN...

An extra egg

I remember eggs being rationed 鈥� my sister did not, and still does not eat eggs, so we had an extra...

If that's what war is - it's very boring

I was recently reminded by someone who was also there at the time, refreshing my memory of a peculiar...

Schoolboy Memories

Towards the end of the War, I became a Schoolboy Christmas Postman... I was a Schoolboy Postman for two...