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Hospitals by Jodie Lloyd

The next day the matron said that they couldn't get their tonsils out because the hospital was too full...

Introduction

That night, King George VI broadcast to the commonwealth “We can only do the right as we see the...

Welcome, Researcher 240392

Their was going to be an announcement on the wireless by Neville Chamberlain the prime minister at...

Childhood memories

Luton is a town in a hollow of the Chiltern Hills... All around the town there were burners which burnt old...

My Life In The Land Army.

Although unmarried women of 18 years and over had to register in order to help with the war effort, at the...

Collectors Items

These were mainly pieces of anti-aircraft shells that had blown up being fired at enemy aircraft during the...

Blackpool in 1940

Blackpool had only had one air raid, and I remember being very exited about going to the shelter. In the...

Sheffield

My story My war was spent at my home in Sheffield in Yorkshire....

hmmmmmm

I can remember when the grocers in Queen street, Ramsgate suffered from a direct hit from a bomb which,...

Childhood memories

Luton is a town in a hollow of the Chiltern Hills... All around the town there were burners which burnt old...

1943

This was the day that Ashford expereance its worst bombing of the war, when the raid by enemy aircraft...

Say a Prayer

In about 1944, I was called up and billeted to Waddon near Croydon with a retired lady who lived in an...

The Camouflaged Picture-House

I always remember and was rather bemused at the fact that one of the biggest cinemas, a former theatre was...

John parker — World War 2 memories.

World War 2 memories. Was Born in Chipping Norton and I never joined the army though I remember one day me...

VE day

I lived in Deepdene Close Cinderhill Nottingham ,there was twenty houses in the close.Thirty eight children...

When the Gas Masks were given out at school.

We lived in the hamlet of Unthank, near the village of Gamblesby at the foot of the Pennines in north east...

My Memories of the War Pt1

My uncles were in the Home Guard and they went twice a week to Medstead to the Village Hall. Canadians and...

Memories of the Gas Mask by a child in PENGE

We were all given small cardboard boxes in which to carry the gas masks, but my mum managed to get me a...

Moving to Nottingham From London

Friends of ours in London were blown by the force of a bomb at the end of their road from their front...

Grantham tales

Jack turned to mother and said "the best thing to do missus is take you bed clothes and go to the...

A plateful of bacon!

For my days out we went to visit Aunt Ivy's brothers, who owned farms... I was sitting there for a...

Mr Mowll and the Slaithwaite bomb

My wife's godmother, Edith Haigh, would tell the story by mimicking the way Mr Mowll had himself told...

Nuneaton Blitz

First of all we hadn't got an air raid shelter but my dad reinforced the pantry... We met my sister and...

Childhood Memories of Wartime in Antigua

I lived with my grandmother Ella Wright, and sister, Gwendalyn in Antigua... Food was scarce in Antigua,...

Stinging nettles

We could see our Mother about a hundred yards ahead,who was standing at the front gate, when suddenly there...

My memory of V.E. Day

The cheers went up as the lads in full military regalia marched proudly down the streets into the arms of...