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Land Girls at Sibbertoft, Leicestershire

My mother, then Norma Curtis, was a Desborough girl who joined the Land Army and ended up working at...

TREASURED POSSESSIONS

We left just we were, taking nothing with us, as we had promised my father who was stationed in Holland...

Bomb Room

Bomb Room...

Make-shift weapons

They had no weapons to train with so they had make-shift weapons. Fire-Watching and other jobs That's...

The American

This is only a short story but I can remember my mum telling it to me.My mum was 5yrs old at the...

The Mad Hatter — the memory of Keith Potter

I went to Old Bedford Road School Luton there were 9 classes and 300 children... Hats, ribbons, straw hoods...

EDITH'S STORY

Edith was one of a group of 16 evacuees that was brought to an old derelict cottage which was very small....

Evacuees in Yorkshire

This story was related by Mrs. Gillbanks to Denis Price of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ People`s War Team, the ´óÏó´«Ã½ open Centre,...

Here today, gone tomorrow - railings

They took them off and then they used them for the war and apparently a lot of them were melted down for...

Guarding the South Downs

Not only was my dad facng the wrong way, luckily as he may have injured the courting couple, but when he...

Sunday Lunch

I was about 5 years old and walking with my mother to my grandma's house for Sunday lunch. It was a...

Praise the Lord and Keep the Engine Running!

My mum wrote to us where we were evacuated in Wales and she said the bombing had eased up so she was...

WE WEREN’T ALLOWED TO EAT THE CHIPS!

It was a small paper back and was given out at the Co-op... I worked in Abraham Stotts as a cone winder....

Saucepans for helmets

One night my mtoher was not well and had been in bed all day, so when the warning went my sisters and...

What a tangled web we weave

During the period of the Manchester Blitz is the time of the occurrence, the owner of a corner shop grocer...

Anti-Radar Christmas Decorations

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

Evacuees return to Guernsey from Lincolnshire

It was when V.E. day came that arrangements were made to return to Guernsey, we arrived back, and were put...

Fathers Return

My mother, brother and myself had spent the duration of the war in Chester, my father serving with the...

A sad Story

Her son, my father's cousin, was Arnold Ridley — the writer of ‘the Ghost Train’ and...

Evacuated as a Secondary School pupil

For schooling St Philip's shared the Hereford Grammar School buildings -mornings for the residents and...

When My Dad came home

When ww11 started i was 1year 2days old.My Dad joined the Army.And was sent to France.He was in the Royal...

I Know Food Was Rationed But I Wasn’t That Hungry

I think it was the 25th April 1942 and I remember my sister's boyfriend coming back to our house....

My Grandparents

When I was a young girl my Grandmother told me stories of the war and her time as an ARP Warden... Her...

Evacuation from Harwich

The results of our entry exams to High School were rushed through and I went with Harwich County High...

A close encounter

I had been evacuated to Folkestone and later to Wales but I disliked it so much, that I was allowed to stay...

Meeting the enemy

I was just about seven whan war broke out and the village being some 40 miles from London witnessed the...