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The Football Strip

I remember that our washing line was always full of football strips....

CharltonVC

Close Those Lights!

I was staying with me grandfather in 39 Standen Road, Southfields, Wandsworth. Me grandfather, dear old...

A brave boy

Tommy trembled but he had to be brave for his little sister... Tommy shouted luckily a neighbour was also...

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Eggs from Poland

We used to eat imported eggs and we had some eggs that came from Poland, written on one of the eggs was...

Aston-Under-Lyne Childhood Memories

I remember being in church with my father when the priest announced that war had broken out, I was five...

Sad but Happy Days

I also ran a group of Sea Rangers. Aswell as that I was recruited for the homeguard-as I knew the morse...

Soap and wool

Mrs Irene Gosset interviewed by John Gaisford and Rosie Mere Transcribed and edited by John David from...

War Childhood

His childhood memories include his parents running a fish and chip shop. This story was told during story...

The library at Dalstonicon for Story with photo

I was waiting with my friend Gwen to go to the library after school... When I had picked my way out of...

A brave boy

Tommy trembled but he had to be brave for his little sister... Tommy shouted luckily a neighbour was also...

Stuck in a bunk

During one air raid my mum went into labour, and my dad's Aunt Ethel came to look after the younger...

Mistake In The Blackout!

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

A brave boy

Tommy trembled but he had to be brave for his little sister... Tommy shouted luckily a neighbour was also...

BIG BERTHA

I lived in Essex, near an Ack-Ack station. I kept saying to my mum "Can I go and see the Big...

Smugglers Restaurant Sompting

SPRING 1944 ,SOMPTING . We moved into The Old Sussex Guest House ,my mother had purchased the property as...

Mum's Saturday Nights

Every Saturday night, my mum would open her doors and the lady next door used to have a piano, and...

A brave boy

Tommy trembled but he had to be brave for his little sister... Tommy shouted luckily a neighbour was also...

THE WOEFUL WAR

1939 aged 1 My mom carried me, and my sister held onto her nightie to go down to the air raid shelter...

Two Days before D Day*

All was calm and normal, when suddenly there was the noise of singing and large troop carrying lorries...

Life at home in WW2 - Bomber County

Thoresby Aerodrome was near and we could hear all the planes as Lincolnshire was full of aerodromes —...

Secret nighttime meetings at Michaelchurch airstrip

The Headmaster was Eric Barker, his wife told me abut an activity that her husband had been involved in...

The Doughnut Debate

Father made doughnuts and smothered them in sugar. He won the case and the village continued to enjoy...

Where I was when war broke out

In 1939 I was 15 and I was on holiday at Studhill in Herne Bay when war broke out... My father had...

The Americans

Firstly I would like to explode the myth about handouts…I never saw any chocolate, chewing gum or...

The bombing of my local school

During one period at home i was in the back garden and a German plane came flying low overhead. Although i...

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