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The Familiar Sound

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

The day war was declared

On the day of the 3rd of September when war was declared I was with my aunt visiting some friends to...

No Shoes

Andrew Davis, the conductor was born at the same time a few miles away. We lived with my grandparents and...

THE ICECREAM

We had all gone to Maidstone West railway stationthat day, my mother and father,my brother and sister... A...

Hop picking at Manor Park

In August 1940 I was hop picking with my mother and Patrick 18 months old, in part of Uckfield now know as...

Spitfire collision

Then there was a Lancaster bomber that crashed after limping back from a raid and didn't quite reach...

VE Day

People were organising street parties and I remember tables down the middle of the street and somehow or...

My story-as a ten year old

With my friends we too saved pots and pans, papers and any old scrap we could get hold of. 3. the same...

Evacuees in Leicester!

I remember having 2 young boys from Rotherhithe in London stay with us - they were about 7 and as they were...

Feed The Starving

I was a schoolboy in short trousers; I remember the war and early post war years. We often went hungry, so...

Play Time

I lived in the heart of Liverpool throughout the majority of the Blitz... Our street was bombed and the...

Baffle(ing) Walls

Children running straight out of the closes right into these 'baffle walls '. There were more...

Colleens VJ Night

What I can remember of VJ night at the age of six years was my mother making celluloid hats for my three...

Singing for Eggs!

This story was told to me by my Nanna, Barbara Jones, She was born in 1919 and was married at the age...

New Coat

My Dad decided he needed a new overcoat, which involved a lot of saving up as money was in short supply and...

My Grandfather’s Memories

My Grandfather leaping over the back yard gate on seeing a German plane shot down over Sunderland... My...

"When The Lights Come On Again"

An ‘enlightening’ memory was when both my parents took me for a late walk on the night after...

Re Dunkirk Evacuation

In 1940 when thousands of our troops had to be evacuated from Dunkirk we were so sorry for them that we...

Ashbury War Time Memories as told by Eunice Gigg nee Pill.

A few memories - 1Every Sunday the soldiers used to come down from Ashdown to evening service at the...

Evacuees in Trowbridge

I was born and brought up in Nottinghill Gate, London and was evacuated at the age of four to Wiltshire,....

BARROW SCHOOL BOY AT WAR

Derek was bombed out and his Mum and Dad went to live in Marton. Derek went to Marton to sleep but went...

Mother goes out to work

Mother tried to go out to work but that lasted one week, our Jack the lad and Terry got into some argument...

pea and bean picking

On several afternoons towards the end of 1943 about harvest time,the girls of Worthing High School were...

Ringing the bells.

In those days churches were never locked so we were very brave and went in and rang the bells! I must admit...

War life with my Cornwall 'Aunt' and 'Uncle'

I was born in Hull but we stayed on a farm at Mullion in Cornwall for about three years during the war...

That Bellowing Siren Made Me Cry

I had just got back from my auntie Janes when my mum said to me "Dorris, go and put those blackout...