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Making our own entertainment

Cowboys and Indians was a favourite game and after viewing many of the war games we played English and...

Working in the Jam Factory

When I was 14 I left school and went to work in a jam factory owned by the CWS... My sisters went...

Setting Fire to His Own Plane

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

Finding the German

Herbert kept in radio contact with the rest of the Rushden Home Gaurd... So they returned to Rushden adn...

An embarrassing episode

It was the time of the Atlantic convoys and the papers were full of the Liberty ships. Where's my...

When The Engine Cut Out, You Knew Someone Was Going To Cop It

In 1940, we got evacuated to Leicester with my sister Sylvie. I remember being caught under a table with me...

Evacuation to Bacup in 1941

We went by train to Manchester for a stopover and then to Bacup, a small town - which was very...

First Aid! — Broken back and gassed!

I was in the St. George's 2 Scout Group... I was put in the Circle of the old Gaumont Cinema with a...

Out of the Frying Pan....

My Pa thought we'd be safer in Bristol, so we lived in a 6th floor flat in Clifton Court. However,...

A wartime childhood

My Mother worked for the P.O. in Dunstable and we went to live with a friend she met at the Post Office....

My Grandma's War Story: Evacuated to Middlesborough

Middlesborough was a village near York....

Childhood war memories of Mrs Greta Moody

Dad ran a pub in Maidstone and I can remember all nationalities of soldiers. We stayed in Maidstone...

Doodle bug souvenirs

Behind our house there was a along garden there was a golf course, then two reservoirs and Staines...

A Sea Cadet in WW11 Dunstable

During the Second World War I was in the Sea Cadets in Dunstable. One evening someone came to our Unit in...

A short story

Pat Doyle was 18 years old and lived in Liverpool, by the racecourse in Fazakerley on the edge of...

Family Recollection

Army pay was not good so we struggled. My father was killed 3 months after signing up, he was in Germany....

Towards the end of the war

Mrs Hurst's memories A friend of mine told me, who is 100 years old now, his brother was killed in ww1...

Bursting the Yanks Balloon

The story was originally recorded by members of the Brampton Museum Newcastle Under Lyme Towards the end of...

St Meryn Evacuee

I have always lived in St Meryn and at the time of WW2 a 9 year old evacuee came to stay with...

newport pagnell evacuee 1939

The father of the family was the choirmaster and church warden at St. Lukes, his wife and one daughter were...

Ride in a Sherman Tank

An American friend of Joan asked if she would like to go to the Pictures, the Grand Cinema on Smithdown...

Schoolboy Memories

I was in Swandean Hospital over Christmas with Scarlett Fever... We also used to watch the fighter planes...

Run over but alive

A long convoy of Army trucks were driving through the town, but, on seeing my Mother, I walked across the...

The Last Performance

It was the early 1940's and Connie was working with a number of young girls in Carr's, a...

The fairies did it!

One particular day, it was a day of really bad blitz in Manchester, and as they dropped the bombs the house...

Alice's war time memories

I was 13 when I was evacuated from Liverpool to Bridgenorth... We were placed in a hotel for a while then...