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Black and White

By kind permission of the Author. If They don't paint the pavements’ edge In stripes of black and...

Making Hay - and Black Bullets

The young man in the photo is Noel Rutherford, later to becaome my brother-in-law.Then next is me, Doreen...

Missed Opportunity For Bullet Search

After being bombed out we moved to a semi-detached house in Chastilian Road, near Dartford Heath. I used to...

CHILDISH IMAGINATION

My Dad worked all day at GKN making screws and bolts and then at night he was firefighting. We didn't...

Big Bang!

I was leaving my home in Catherine Street, Cambridge, I can't remember if I was going to work or out...

Wartime Memories

I was evacuated during the war to Rhosmedr near Wrexham with my sister who was a year younger than me. I...

Before War Broke Out

Tragic death caused by Dispatch Motorcyclist

She was told a dispatch rider was speeding with an urgent message he had lost control and crashed into my...

I was a young lad......

I was awalking home one day when hitler and his young scallywag friends came a driving past me, in there...

War Time Memories of A Ten Year Old

No-one had a TV so on 3rd September 1939 everyone crowded into houses which had a wireless to hear Neville...

The day war broke out

Everything was thrown into the car. We came back to Ashton Street and sat downstairs in the basement...

Kathleen Boyle page 1

The great aunt that we lived with in Nelson terrace was recuperating from a heart attack and staying with...

Saved by a snowball

Our family farm was close by to the satellite field for Alconbury.One day as a boy of five i had to come...

The Return of the Tanks

I was a schoolgirl living at Dagnal during the war and I remember the tanks coming through the village...

Doodlebug Chicks

My Mum and Dad lived at Hilders Bungalow, Redding Street on the Appledore Road out of Tenterden. Dad was in...

Peter's Schoolday Recollections 1940

I remember when I was in my early teens, because of food rationing, standing in queues before going to...

My Dad

I nearly said that it was my dad but didn't. Mum worked at Thames Board Mills, so I stayed at my...

Post Office

Already in the Post Office was Mr O.G Harvey of Connor Downs. I remember my father, Mr Lawrence and Mr...

Doodle Bugs & Exams

During our School Certificate Exams which was after D Day, the Germans sent Doodle Bugs over....

An Edmonton Street Party

Coming in on a Wing and a Prayer Look below there's a field over there With a full crew aboard And a...

White Marguerites

As a little girl of 9, I lived at St Erth Station. My father was a Special Constable at St Erth -...

Jitter Raids

On odd nights whilst we were on perimeter guard duty, the Japs would suddenly appear, fire a few flares...

A 'Yank' at the Circus

The circus had come to town and a marquee went up on the reci. When we got in the circus tent there...

The unexpected bomb in Islywn Valley

I was living in Islywn Valley, South Wales during the war and as a child I wasn't really that aware of...

German Spies

I lived at Leonards-on Sea opposite Hastings pier... Lord Haw Haw and the Germans knew this and the bombers...

Working as a female farm worker in Shropshire

I was in Shropshire, at Whittington, in a little village called Perthy... There was a school of blind...