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Flying Floorboards

We were hiding under the stairs and the floorboards come up and nearly hit us in the face... My father was...

Hitler's HQ in Oxford!

We were told that this was because Hitler wanted Oxford to be his Headquarters once he had invaded and...

I'll be safe under the stairs

This story has been entered onto this site by David on behalf of John Bennett and they fully understand the...

A1100430 - seeing as a child

A Flying Fortress crashed just short of the runway, there was a large bang as it hit the ground,as being a...

Wartime

When I was 5 in 1942 I was evacuated To Mrs Pindar in Nottingham. prior to that I lived with my family...

Entertaining Evenings

The army came for us and put us all in a big lorry and took us out to Gilnakirk to a big...

I saw a bomb pass my window

I saw a bomb pass my window...

An evacuee in Rutlandshire

I was evacuated to Exton in Rutlandshire when my family were moved to Bearsted, Kent... This little cottage...

Thanks for the chewing gum!

I was born on Derby Road, Burton on Trent. My mother, Gladys, looked after my brother Derek, my sister...

In the Land Army.

I was in the Land Army on a farm until they died I remember being there in Spreyton with the Simmons...

Lost on the 'Athenia'

There was a large evacuation of children to Canada going on, the method of travel in such large numbers was...

D Day

All through the Avenue to Basset Avenue and down Basset Wood Road to Stoneham Lane passed the Stoneham Arms...

I Didn鈥檛 Know There Was A War On

The River Tweed ran past the door, and usually when you get a nice lot of rain, October/November, the...

Irene Greer's story

This is an account of Irene Greers story told to Craig Brown from Millennium Volenteers and written by...

loxwood, fire station, Sussex

The Day I Lost the Family Tea

The owner of the van was Mr Bitchener and he had a helper who would cook while he served... Although the...

Return of the Soldiers

I lived next door to the Beer House, when the soldiers got to it they were allowed to have a rest and...

Work - Camouflage net, dyed, white string

Their story was given to the Trebah WW2 Video Archive, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2004. They...

Going to see the shot-down plane

My friends heard that a German airplane had been shot down on the Cefn Road, in a big field. I remember my...

Firewatching

Both our aunts were in the A.R.P., Initials on tin hats to tell us so... Going to the outside lav, we'd...

The War starts at 6

I remember Chamberlain's words, softly spoken, relayed through our brown Bakerlite wireless... A lot of...

Sticky Bombs verses Tanks

All the others in my platoon were veterans of WW1 but we accepted one another because we had a common...

Tran Siberian Railway

My mother brought me back to school in Eastbourne, than went back to China by ship... She travelled via the...

Doodle Bug Crash at Oak Lane Upchurch

I have vague memories of a doodlebug crashing into the railway bridge at Oak Lane Upchurch just before a...

St Dennis and Goss Moor - Women's Land Army

It is an extract from a book he wrote in 2004 called 'St Dennis and Goss Moor', published by...

war wound

Norwich at that time had been severly bombed,and at the back of my aunts house were a row of houses that...