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Uncle Jim's Return

My uncle by marriage,Jim Coffey,was in The Royal Airforce in India and did not get back to England until,I...

The Benefits Of Being Milk Monitor!

I was living in Apsley Cotts, Chartham near Canterbury during the war with my older brother and sister and...

A Mystery at School!

This story goes back to l939/40, when I was 8/9 years of age and was attending Quarry Hill Infants School,...

Volunteering and made to measure trousers

On a Sunday at Bolton Hall, down Bolton Lane. My friend and I used to go down on a Sunday afternoon for...

The Dogfight

I lived in Sheerness with me dad and mum and sister. One Saturday around midday there was a dogfight...

Oversexed! Overpaid and Overhere!

I was born in 1942 and lived in the Meadows area of Nottingham right outside the gates of the Royal...

An Explosive Birth

I was beginning to make my entrance to the world during the London blitz on 7th September 1940, finally...

Shovelling Down Dried Milk In the Cupboard

I used to sit in a cupboard and eat condensed milk with a spoon....

Hitler made my Uncle Bald!

My mother got really tired of this and we went over to stay for a little while with her Aunt and Uncle...

Christmas time, bathing costumes and games

We did lots of things at school, at Christmas all we had were lanterns with sticky paper. We did manage to...

Christmas Shopping in the blitz.

Christmas Shopping in the blitz. The first Christmas of the war, I went into Birmingham City Centre with my...

Children in wartime

My sisters were sent away to the country farms for safety in came any bombs fell in Belfast. I remember the...

A Near Thing.

The rule was that if the siren went during school hours all the children would be put in the school shelter...

pauline wilkinson story

pauline wilkinson story...

V E Day joy in Wigan

When the news of the end of the war came to Wigan, I was 4 years of age and can remember being...

Air-raid carnage in Gourock

I remember air raids in Gourock throughout WW2. All the other families in Gourock had kept their children...

Italian Prisoners of War

A group of Italian Prisoners were held at Little Crosby hall, where they helped on the farms. I used to go...

Growing up fast.

I was the only child at home soon was given a job to do: I sat on top of the Anderson Shelter...

On the Wrong Track

My Mother colected Rabbits from farms in Lancs/Yorks and delivered to the Towns. Once when she had a...

Wee Willy's Wooden Whistle

"Wee Willy's wooden whistle wouldn't whistle"...

The blitz in Manchester

I was eleven years old when war broke out, living in Manchester. My brothers were in the air force and my...

Coming home on VE Day

John Buckley is 85 and originally from Hawarden. My dad met me at Chester Station....

Evacuees in the Village

I was 10 when war broke out and my earliest memory of its effect was when the evacuees came to the...

few memories

When war was delcared my mother lived in a small mining village outside of Durham... When war was delcared...

Spitfire Showdown

Both me and my mother plus my two younger children went to the shelter at the bottom of the garden... A...

Next to the American Camp

The Americans set up a big camp there, and they used to give us children chocolate and other things that we...