I remember laughing at my auntie who was petrified of spiders frantically flapping her arms trying to get...
I remember being woken up when sirens went and put into my beige siren suit with fur round the hood... My...
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On another occasion, there was a great red glow in the sky - it was the London Docks on fire. But I...
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Siren suits, Vera Lynn and doodle-bugs. I made the children 鈥淪iren suits out of old coats 鈥...
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We were rationed,of course,but before my father left he had made contact with some Scots Guards who were...
I remmebr all of the younger members of the family making Christmas decorations, the thin bits of card...
At the back of the local Co-Op there used to be a mini poultry farm, and we used to rake out the...
It blew the local curate Clean off his feet, the while it flattened out The Infant School Assembly Hall......
My mother comes from the Republic of Ireland, although, being Protestant, she identifies more with...
Dennis my husband, was a child during the war. During the early part of the war, Dennis and his family...
I was 3 at the beginning of the war and lived just outside London in West Wickham....
"In 1944 my brother and I were evacuated to Vinton just outside Eccles Lancs. Everything was going fine...
I remember on sunday morning 3 september listening to the Prime Minister Nweville Chambetlain announcing...
In the garden there was sprouts and potatoes, so the sergeant cooked us a roast dinner!.. We had another...
Sweet Coupons. I seem to remember we got issued with sweet coupons at the beginning of each month....
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If you took the lid off a few inches and swung the whole thing round your head it made a noise like...
I was sent away from home to a safe place away from the bombs that fell on our town Newcastle to a...
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