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Real American Friends

It was Christmas day morning and they told me and my friend to go around the town and see if there were...

V E Day in Berkshire

There is a bonfire on the green, Vera Lynn is singing on the gramophone which is perched on somebody's...

St Dennis and Goss Moor - Blackouts

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

Playing with Fire

Sometime in 1943 three of us young lads went into the local woods in Castledawson to collect some firewood....

'Coincidence'

The first night in the hotel, we went to the dance hall and my wife danced with another guest... However,...

Schooling for Evacuees

We were evacuated from Belfast to place like Enniskillen where the danger was much less. In the country...

school days

Each morning before leaving home for school my friends and I would go into our gardens to collect schrapnel...

A child's memories

Joseph Diable was my father adn a Royal Naval Gunner servng on HMS Coringa... She became a mechanical...

Childhood

I can also remember being carried intothe Anderson Shelter at the bottom of our garden... The awful sound...

A child's life in Latchford, Warrington

I was at school, living at a place called Latchford, in Warrington, on an estate....

A child's memories

Joseph Diable was my father and a Royal Naval Gunner servng on HMS Coringa... She became a mechanical...

A Tragic Recreational Imprint

Stanley Harry Broome Location: Gold Street Northampton. During the war a bomber, a Lancaster or Stirling,...

Daffodils mark the plane crash site

The pilot was a Canadian called Anderson; he was trying to make an emergency landing at Bonickson's...

My Evacuee Story

I was seven years old when I was evacuated from North London to Newmarket, Suffolk... I went with my sister...

Early Germ Warfare

We always went to the air-raid shelter as soon as the sirens sounded, were given barley sugars to suck,...

Edge in the War

It was known as Paul Camp and the tyres were delivered to Stroud station by rail and ferried to the camp by...

Memories of an 11 year old

I lived close to Ringway airportwhich was a training airport for the Paratroop Regiment... I was not...

Waking the Dead

My name is john cairns I was born in Glasgow in 1934 I was only about 5years old when war was declared...

An Essex Boys Experience - Whe I Was Bombed

I remember the siren sounding and the doodle bug coming over and heard the engine stop and a shushing noise...

The first German plane shot down in England?

A plane had been shot down and had crashed into the Bishop of Chelmsford's garden in a place called...

Mountain Retreat

Our village of Cervinara was surrounded by mountains. We found the safest place to be was at the top of the...

Forgotten Gas Masks.

His story was given to the Trebah Video Archive, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2004. We all had...

The school board man came after me

We had to boil all of our water. our Aunt Glad lived in Tunstall,dad arranged for us to go and live with...

Places of Play

Not far from whree I lived on the Melton Road there was an area of waste land. These stacks wre as large...

Evacuated to Fleetwood

There was lots of aircraft activity, and Jessie wonders if the seaside was such a logical place to be...

The meaning of war to a child.

There was rationing, the sound of aeroplanes going overhead every night, there were convoys of tanks and...