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A Miracle In Bexhill

I was living in Bexhill in 1943, the house in Bending Crescent was opposite a shelter so when the sirens...

Scouser kids have fun

She went out to work at Crawfords Biscuit Factory and learnt all sorts of skills. After the way my father...

If We Get Hit We Will All Be Together And Die Together

When the aerodrome started getting bombed by Germans we spent alot of time down in the air raid shelters....

Evacuee

I was 4 years old in 1939 and was evacuated during the war, sent to a village called Stoke Lynn, near...

Mistaken Identity

It was very dark on the ward at night, but I was not afraid, because there were lots of girls about my...

G.I. Brides In Nutley

Nutley village, being on the southern part of the Ashdown Forest was alive with army units during the...

V E Day Memories of Ken Thorley

Dad was the Chief Air Raid Warden on the Cherry Tree Estate during the war. One particular night my Dad had...

Father

On the very first day, the 3rd September Mum Dad and I came back from Church just in time to hear the...

Lancastria Lacock and Bath

My Great Grandfather, Fred, buried the Lacock Abbey Charter to keep it safe during the war. My Mum,...

Brooke Bond Tea for Thousands

Uckfield in the NAAFI when I was offered a job at the Brooke Bond Mansion, The Rookery, Deepdene, Dorking....

My only night in a shelter

See more of Herbert's stories: A long sort of sock 鈥滱ll genuine tickets please鈥� All sorts I...

Was he a spy?

As a young mother, my Mum lived in Newport, Monmouthshire in Wales. Mum was inside the house in her living...

Food in Occupied Guernsey

Liz Barrett interviewed by Becky Kendall at the Guille-Alles Library 5/2/2005. Its amazing the kind of...

Overseas Mail

They put the kettle on for tea... They play That same charade of spurious hope That buoys them up and helps...

Dresses

When the siren sounded my sister collected her dresses, go straight into the shelter, walk across a...

The Morrison Shelter and the banana

The Morrison shelter, I'm afraid, wasn't strong enough to save your life, but it could save you...

Chased by Germans on Bicycles.

Chased by Germans on Bicycles. I had a chase one night, I was courting in the earlier part of the...

All sorts

During my time in the service I met Lots of funny characters: one fella was a Londoner and he didn't...

Evacuation from the coast to the industrial north

On a sunny day in early June 1940, some 200 children from our school in Southend on Sea in Essex were...

Doreen Craig's Story

On the way home from school one day she was walking past the railway station and she saw the train for...

My Memories Of The Air Raids

At St. Cuthbert's School we had air-raid practices, at fairly regular intervals. We were very lucky...

Helping Each Other in Nottinghamshire

One Christmas we had about forty cockerels and belgian rabbits. By Christmas Eve only one rabbit remained....

In the breif moment of War

That night my dad died of a massive heart attack and the German man woke up in the morning and asked where...

War time concert parties

That was a small stage, with little dolls, using your own head through a black curtain, singing and dancing...

Liberator crash.

Treats from the Americans

One day I watched a dog fight, that was the day that Reading Town Hall was bombed. The school I used to...