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growing up in wartime lincoln

My father, brother and I was in the old bus converted into a caravan behind the sandhills at Chapel...

Lancastria, Lacock and Bath

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

The Other Casualties Of War

I was given the name Victoria, because of the Allied victory in Europe and my middle name was that of my...

Walking to Schoo;

In our school bags we had to carry our I.D cards,ration book,handkerchief,also a small bag of marbles,piece...

The War in Abington Park

I was 5 years old when the war started, and my earliest memory was the shelters in Abington Park, down by...

A nine year old's march for chocolate

When I was about nine there was a Canadian troop based about three miles away in East Hamstead... He said...

Anderson Shelter

Lots of people, neighbours presumably, and Auntie Flo' running back and forth to the house to bring tea...

Indiscriminate Bombing Meant Adventure For Youngsters

His story was given to the Trebah Video Archive, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2004....

Minesweeper gloves

I was 5 year's old when the war started and one of my earliest vivid memories is my beloved Mum, Mrs...

Muriel Askew's Story

As the war began I was living with my mum, dad sisters and brother next to the park in Oldham. I can...

Gas masks and saucepans

So we stood there, in our gas masks, stifling, worried, not quite sure which way to turn, at which the...

German Bombs

Well the Germans designed a bomb which was steered by a rudder and if the wind blew it off course it was...

Childhood Wartime Memories

Then there was the what seemed like the mile long queue at Rankins the fruiterer when the banana boat came...

A Shoolboys' View

Alf remembers havng lots of days off from school which was held in many different venues the school day...

D Day

From 1941 to 1946 I attended the Torquay Girls Grammar School, which had been built a few years before on...

Private Grief

That winter Grandad died was white with snow And ice for month on month, each minor road Like glass, even...

VE Day

It was my sister's cast-off machine and because she had acquired a bigger bicycle she had had the...

Wartime experience

We lived in Leytonstone and we didn't have a bathroom so one night our aunt invited us to stay at her...

A Fragrant Cottage

My older brother, younger sister and myself were evacuated from Seaford in East Sussex, to Bedford. My...

Childhood, bombs and chocolate

Years later my mother told me she'd hidden the sailor in the pantry for me to have on Christmas...

MEMORIES OF WAR THROUGH A CHILDS EYE (HOME ON LEAVE)

When the war ended I remember the bonfires in the streets and the men, who had survived, were dancing round...

Triumph to Tragedy

I was a 13-year-old school girl, evacuated to Cirencester from North London. Instantly, her face turned...

THE LAST SEA SWIM

Rememberance

Both my grandfathers served in other ways, one was in the Scotts Greys, the other defused munitions in...

How we became Evacuees

My brother went to the back of the bus, Georgina my youngest sister sat near Margaret and I. We all had our...

V.E.Day

Everyone brought out their dining tables into the street and whatever crockery they owned, odd cups and...