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A Good Shot - Part 2.

A Good Shot - Part 2. We were given a quota of potatoes and grain - I ploughed a lot of fields...

Memories of Leeds

I was evacuated to Caistor in Lincolnshire for about eighteen months, but when I returned to Leeds there...

A Wartime Schoolgirl

At the time of the Rockets, my classroom had no glass left in any of the 5 large French windows. A fairly...

City Children On A Kent Country Farm

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

Knapp Road school

YOU CAN CHECK THIS BY RINGING THE GIRLS SCHOOL AND SEEING THE REGISTER FOR 1943 YOU WILL SEE THAT MY SISTER...

CHILDHOOD MEMORIES OF WORLD WAR 2

THE AMERICAN TROOPS WERE SENT TO THE RHONDDA VALLEY TO TRAIN FOR D/DAY. SO OF-COURSE THE VALLEY WAS ALL...

Rationing

They also owned land in the Fylde area so could grow food and supply eggs, bacon, etc... When there was a...

Queue for 2 Oranges

I was evacuated twice as we lived in Dagenham and the bombs came down one after the other, they were after...

60 Years Ago Today

Then we saw the placards and the headlines 'The War With Japan Is Over'. Our first reaction was a...

School canteen ceiling falls down

She remembers being at school which was Bodsham Primary, one time at 12 o'clock which was lunchtime...

A Narrow Escape

2 My Aunt owned a Tobacconist shop, called Phillips in Broad Street, Reading. After the People's Pantry...

Rudolf Hess's plane crash

In 1942 I was only 4 years old, but I remember going to see the remains of Rudolf Hess's plane,...

Coincident

With that the lady in question came over and said to my wife, 鈥� I'm sorry for staring at you but...

Life on the Farm

I had to walk a long way in the dark on my own to get the bus to take me to my...

School Trilogy 2: Still Unfit

This time the teacher thought it would be fitting To have me help her teach the clumsy lad Who shared my...

Ship ha'pennies

When I was five, we were all asked to save 鈥淪hip Ha'pennies鈥� to help towards the war...

Two Ounces of Butter.

I remember about the rationing; there was two ounces of butter!.. I remember going down early and standing...

A Poem called TEN

I felt the fear of a child, the insecure hate, of Dunkirk that Dad was in, whilst we were left to wait,...

The Bombing of Burngreave School

"During the Sundaynight/Monday Morning air raid on 15 December 1940, Burngreave School was bombed......

War Memories of Brenda Shaw 'Custurd Cream Biscuits'

A absolute luxury during the war was custurd cream biscuits....

Moving from shelter to Shelter

I was a child but I can remember the night of the eleven hour raid and moving around from different...

My experiences in the South Hams

It was a large house with about 3 other girls in my dormitory. I remember on several occasions we were told...

Barrow emergencies in WW2

On the 16th of June 2005 Natalie and Alex interviewed Alec and Edith. Alec and Edith told us that the...

Air Raid Drill.

On one such drill we were walking to the shelter when the local siren went off.My friend and I who were...

Mrs Slack and the Slag Heap

In nineteen forty one after spending eighteen months wondering why some very angry Germans were coming over...

Scouts spot German plane

In a matter of minutes another German bomber plane joined him! A Spitfire came just as the Germans were...