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Mr Sonny Jolly — The Guard man

I joined the army in 1949 and was in the Coldstream guards... I went to a school at Riddlesworth School in...

In retrospect I was very lucky

I remember one particular road called ‘Hurstfield Crescent’ that's where the doodle bug...

DOODLEBUGS AND THE CORRIDOR

There was no danger from flying glass in the corridor of our flat as the front door opened onto a landing...

EVACUATIONS

In 1940 my sister, her friend, my brother and I were evacuated from Nelson Street School, in Manchester, to...

Looking Back

A vivid memory I have is of the choir at my school... There was to be a great concert in the town...

V.E. Night at Blackpool

Donald Pearce was there and he was singing round the bonfire all night... When that was finished everyone...

Cynthia's story

When I visited a couple of years back the ammunition factory was still there locked up. When I was 10 years...

First air-raid siren

My first ever memory as a child of 4yrs was being taken to see, in my parents bedroom, my newly born...

If You Smell Geraniums

Leaflets were distributed around the time of the Coventry bombing full of information on possible gas...

Mock Dog Fight

One day I heard a commotion in the sky directly over our house, and rushing outside saw a spitfire and what...

A Curious Thing happened to me as a Child during the War

I was very young during the war so I remember things from the perspective of a child under 5 years of age...

Rabbits

My father was a fireman on the L.N.E.R. and the trains were not infrequently machine gunned - they we...

Beating the Bosh

I was about five at the time, at home in Elson, Gosport, near Portmouth... I just hoped they'd shoot...

Flying Bomb destroys the school

On August 27th 1944 at 7a.m a flying bombdropped in the playground of the Council Infants School which...

American Solder.

Lived on a family farm in Sidmouth, Higher Pinn Farm. Remembers incendiary bombs falling around house and...

Our Dad

We had an Anderson shelter in the garden and we had a hot water cistern that rumbled upstairs... Mother...

My Poor Mother Never Lived That Down

The drill was that I had to meet my friends at the corner of Larchfield Avenue and Firwood Road, where we...

America's Entry in the War and Grey Suits

I was a child during the war but he was a bomber command officer, a Flight Lieutenant, and he trained in...

I Wish I Had Gone With Dad

At that moment a V2 rocket landed 200 yards away and it blew the whole wall and window down on me... My...

"Dunkirk - we were evacuated too"

In May/June 1940 in Folkestone we knew that our troops were coming back from France. Take them to Radnor...

My Fear

The fear of German Paratroopers landing in our street... The fear of seeing that my grandparents were...

William Vanston story

My lasting memory of world war 2 is I was evacuated in 1939 To Lowick Near Ulvaston... My lasting memory of...

Stalybridge Childhood Memories

I lived in Stalybridge as a child, and when bananas were unobtainable, the bananas which were grown in the...

Saving Dads Suit

I can remember my Mum telling me that she used to dodge bullets whilst walking down the street with two...

A Little Girl in Hull

I do remember my Mickey Mouse gas mask, it was pink and blue they'd obviously made them specially for...

A child's war

I saw the bombing of Chelmsford in 1943, the large raids on Germany, and the gliders going over to, I...