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A Delivery of Furniture to Bombed Coventry

A few days after the city of Coventry was very heavily bombed in what was one of the worst air raids on...

Home Life

My father was exempt from service because he worked at Vickers Armstrong on Scotswood Road, in the...

Memories of an Evacuee

This thought upset my parents very much, so as mum had a brother in Thornliebank, on the Southside of...

Cowboys and Injuns and Dads' Army

In the middle of a game of cowboys and injuns we saw a distant group of men coming towards us....

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Messenger Boys

Some of the older boys, who were in the top class, were 鈥榤essenger boys鈥. My brothers Barry and...

Our own Prisoner of War

My Uncle worked for Houghtons the builder and this particular prisoner was allocated to him... The prisoner...

A Six Year olds War

There was an air base near St Helens and I recall seeing the first American soldiers who came to chase the...

Learning in the Shelters

In 1940, my parents moved to live in Hale and I went to Stamford Park Primary School. Although Hale is 8...

7) I walked twelve miles a day!

Our first home was a Fisherman's cottage and when the tide came in a large board was placed across the...

One of Mum's World War II Experiences!icon for Story with photo

I was in possession of my English passport and mother and I were anxious that the Germans might find it...

War in Wigan

I was born in Wigan, Lancashire in April 1932 and was 7 years old when the war broke out... Interestingly,...

Evacuated to Bradford

I was evacuated to Bradford in Yorkshire from my home of Kingston-on-Thames during the war, I was about...

At Stanley Street School we did gas mask

I knock on the door 鈥淐ome in鈥, so I goes in and see this little woman, she had thick rubbery...

Even the strongest of women

Granny was a Liverpudlian, born and bred, nearly six foot tall she always seemed to be towering above me......

Crystal Sets

Whilst he was working at the cycle shop two days after selling this crystal set, two German Officers came...

My Grandad's Big Adventure

When they went for a walk once, grandad found a German plane but the pilot was dead! He took advantage of...

Doodlebugs

He was on a boat with my Uncle Stan and was talking with his comrades on one side of the boat. Our...

Connie Pascoe - Teenage Memories

There were lots of evacuees from the East End of London who came to stay in the area, which was...

Top View of a V.I

When this happened a bell was rung in the building but on this occasion we kidded the new, temporary,...

Wartime Childhood

I grew up in Brighton during the war lived near Brighton station and have good and bad memories from that...

Wartime Memories

One memory is of an allied plane breaking upin mid air and the wreckage coming down on the playing fields...

Tanks give way to Bicycles!

Peperharrow Park was one of the holding areas used for American armour prior to D-Day. Two days before...

The Looks

The-man-from-the-war, the man who had come to stay with us for a 鈥榮hort while鈥, the man who...

Hiding your light under a bush

Betty was just a young girl when she went to live with her grandparents out in the country... Her...

English schoolgirl learns Welsh

Janet Wheatman tells Elaine Taylor her World War II memories at the Tullie House 60th WWII Anniversay Event...

Ration Books and Ciphering

Interview With His Maternal Grandmother's sister, Anne, of Chichester, West Sussex by Ewan, Year 8...

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