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A Nurse's Memories in South Wales

After I finished training, I had a children's ward, and we had lots and lots of children from...

A Doodlebug Birthday

I lived with my Mum and my Granny whilst my Dad was at war. It was my third birthday and my mum...

VE Night

In May 1945, the Old Vic were appearing in Manchester with a variety of plays as well as their traditional...

Evacuation in Stamford

I was evacuated in Stamford Linconshire in WW2 With the Jibb family... Mrs Jibb had passed on but her son...

A Near Thing

I was evacuated to Cambridge in 1940 to stay with my two aunts. In 1941 my father fetched me so that I...

VIEWS FROM A PUSHCHAIR

Later we were at Onslow Village, Guildford, Surrey... I would hear the sound and and say 'old George...

Photo Memories of Mum and Dad

My mum and her sister used to come into Peterborough from Eye to go the dances at the Angel Hotel. She used...

MY LIFE CHANGED AS A RESULT OF THE WAR

I went into munitions , first at Marchweil near Wrexham and then , ironically , while Coventry industry was...

Earliest memory

I was born in 1942 in Hainault, Essex, during the blackout at home in my parent's bungalow. For...

daffodils.

One of the many little stories I have to tell is of an expedition to pick daffodils. We lived close to the...

Boys at play v Army getting ready for 'D' Day

My younger brother and I used the gorse bushes at the edge of the New Forest near to our home as a...

JUST A PIECE OF PAPER!

I remember in the middle of winter at the age of 5 being awoken in the middle of the night by the...

Remembering Mr Chamberlain's Voice

I was privately evacuated from the outskirts of London to my grandparents’ home in Witney at the...

Evacuation

Violet aged 12 and her brother John aged 10 were evacuated from Dagenham, Essex just after the start of war...

While they were making a noise you were OK

I was living in North London with my mother, dad was somewhere out with the RAF, and we were at the garden...

Eleven Year Old Racketeer.

I used to run her errands for her and also for Mr Birch whose pub it was. His lady friend Ivy also...

Evacuation in Burton on Trent

1940 was a bad winter with lots of snow.This made the job of the German airforce easier for although we had...

The Dog Fight

A group of 8 or 10 of us, all about the same age, were up on Blackheath and a dog fight was...

Varndean School, Brighton

Sirens occasionally went off and all the children would go into the trenches but on this occasion, pips...

Memories of Food

I was a small boy when the war started, the thing I remember most was food, as we lived with rationing- so...

joyces war

Joyce remembers Andersons shelter's as being like Wendy houses... Joyce can remember rationing and only...

War Memory

I was 2 years old when the war started and I lived in Cardiff, our estate was near the ammunitions factory,...

a Gas Mask Injury.

We had an anderson shelter in the garden which my father built but we never used it because it always had...

Derbyshire Memories

I lived in rural Derbyshire when I was a lad and my father was a builder... As I cycled along a German...

Taking the Gas Mask to School

Dad's parents were matron and master of various poor law institutions around the country during the war...

My War Time Romance

The announcement that war was declared came over the radio and my aunt and uncle insisted that we came back...