After experiencing the Bristol blitzes my father decided we should seek the safety of the Gloucestershire...
Somebody at the door said “I've got two girls out here, can you give them accommodation? Watching...
Whilst waiting around on the platform, a very lengthy train pulled in, when it had stopped, all the doors...
It was lovely — when I first saw a banana I didn't know what it was like but I thought I would...
They used to let me take a ride On the milkman's cart The afternoon delivery, of course, Two seats at...
When war broke out I joined the Womens Land Army and worked on a farm at Ringmer near the Green Man pub...
My brother was a prisoner of war in Japan in a place called Hiroshima, that is where the first Atom bomb...
Norman lived with his widowed father on the London Road, and he was our Methodist Sunday School Teacher...
One sunny day in May 1944, my pals and I were having our lunch break at school, when a great convoy of...
When we reached Guthrie Street, my Mum kissed me and went. So I sat on my case and cried so the teacher...
Later on in the war we had the V1's and the V2's, and the doodlebugs. The damage caused by the...
My sister, Eva, joined the Land Army at the age of 15 in 1944, quite illegally. And they kept saying:...
The farmers’ wives sometimes invited us in for dinner otherwise it was sandwiches in a tin box,. One...
My mum had the sense to stay on the bus and pushed me to the floor. I remember getting 2oz of butter,...
Mr. Corbridge remembers the Sheffield Blitz and said, “I remember the explosions when we were in the...
My grandmother, who is now 94, recently told me of the story of the child evacuation programme. It seems...
The only real memory I have is of being woken up and carried by my mother outside the house to see a...
We had my cousin up from Colchester as an evacuees - my Mother gave them tripe and onions for tea. If you...
Which brings me to the short story concerning myself as a five year old child in approximately 1949 in...
Iwas 10 years old when the war ended, we lived in three different houses through out the war years, I was...
I am Lincolnshire born and bred at Walesby and my husband was born at Middle Rasen, Lincolnshire... We...
I was in an orphanage in South Wales and I can remember being taken for walks along the sea front and...
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