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St Day Childhood

Villages thought airoplanes were coming and there was great panic at the time, however it turned out to be...

Memories of the War

My name is Betty Hancock nee Howard, I was ten years old when Mr Churchill announced on the wireless that...

Glen Miller came to town

My favourite of all her stories was when Glen miller was coming to play at the Corn Exchange in Bedford,...

Why we had black outs

He said that one night they were doing their delivery in their van, they were following another van which...

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My memories

During the service, the air raid sirens sounded and I was a nervous boy who had read a lot about the civil...

Air Raid Trot

When war broke out I had just passed the 鈥渟cholarship鈥 As no air raid shelters had been built,...

3) The table lifted off the floor

The table lifted off the floor I was thrown out of my chair and our dinner was on the ceiling. 1 The...

My first taste of Chocolate!

My father was in the Army, and at Christmas time my mother and I travelled down to Northampton where he was...

The war

As a child of 6 years old when the war started, i lived in air raid shelters and spent 9 months living...

Air Raids and Hair Nets

My grandad wouldn't get out of bed to go into the air-raid shelter - he reckoned he wanted to die...

Young People's National Service

Members used to go around making maps of fire hydrants and places where you could get water, so that during...

Young Mans War

Our transport were 2 lorries which were used to cart gravel to the Airfields and were owned by 2 brothers...

Lost but Found at the Local Picture House

During the news reel there was footage of the English army in canoes in India... She always kept the part...

Terence Arnold's Memories of the Home Front in Oxford

Name Terence Arnold Interview Date 12th May 2005 Subjects covered Blackout, Digging for Victory Location...

Unscathed

When I was a youngster in 1940鈥檚 a family was billeted with us as evacuees, as kids we got on very...

War Time in Tansor pt2

We had evacuees in Tansor and they lived in various houses during the war years and attended local schools....

"Doodle Bugs"

It disappeared out of sight and I read in the newspaper the next morning that the first V1 weapons had been...

Barrage!

During a night time air raid in Surrey, my grandmother Edith was rushing through Victory Park in Addlestone...

Lemonade Factory Bombed in Newcastle

Air raid in Harraby, Carlisle Dad was an Air Ministry Policeman coming off nightshift... The Bombers were...

B24 Liberator crashes on Chichester Laundry

Cycling home with a friend to lunch from Chichester High School we were approaching Stirling Road railway...

Childhood Memories - one day after school ...

I was a child during the War and lived in Weymouth, Dorset right on the edge of the coast in a house...

VJ Day in Abergele by Jean Warhurst (nee Schuster)icon for Story with photo

VJ Day in Abergele by Jean Warhurst. On VJ Day I was attending a Summer School for Sunday School teachers...

War has been declared. (2 short verses + Introduction )

My memories of the beginning of WW2 are fleeting, a series of little snapshots stored in my head, and...

Memories of Beverley

We were German targets in Beverley when Hull was bombed... I remember the bucket vibrating when Hull was...

Moral Welfae in Liverpool + Bombsicon for Story with photo

My maiden Aunt Winifred Cambridge was a bit strict when I was little. In her last trip to the UK in 1992...

5 years old when war started

There was a lack of tasty food... I remember watching Sheffield ablaze....

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