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Light House Spy

On the day, a man was taking photos of lighthouses and the police took him away as they thought he was a...

Home Life

Dad was in the Home Guard and I was given pocket money for polishing his buckles and badges. Mother and her...

Shooting through the window

All of a sudden father shouted and pointed towards the window. We could see an enemy plane coming, all of a...

Purple Pansy

My bed was near the window, one night a bomb was dropped nearby and glass from the window fell in and...

Hither Green sidings

I remember in 1942 when the Germans were dropping incendiary bombs. One night one dropped on the Hither...

Jerrybuilt houses

Luckily Grandad was in there hollering and shouting with the ARP and firemen forcing the door open to get...

Evacuation Mystery

We went from Clubmoor with my sister and mother and ended up in Borth in mid-Wales... Luckily someone took...

Some tyres have short lives!

Timber, tyres and steel all were rationed... Hubert Battands Bedford was allocated 825 - 20 Michelins cost...

FIRST CAR RIDE, FIRST PARTY. (pic.18)

The Kings Message to school Children Which reads as follows:-. TO-DAY, AS WE CELBRATE VICTORY, I send this...

War Time Memories Around Saxilby 3

On Sturton Road near to Saxilby, the government erected wooden huts and about 20-25 Irishmen came over....

Bombing in Heaton woods

Three whistling bombs dropped in Heaton woods. She went to visit her auntie in 1943, walking home in the...

Ex-ray not torture

I , Paul Ridyard, write this account of Jean Barton's war memories in accordance with the policy of the...

Evacuees Were Hard Work!

I had two evacuees and in the evenings I used to go up to the High Post and do powder and that...

Poor Sheep

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

Doodle Bug

The front door came down the hall and the rear door flew off and pinned him against the fence. My brother...

Wartime School Days

One day in the middle of the war whilst I was at St.John's, Junior School, Penge, two or three German...

Black-out and Bombings

I lived at White Moss, overlooking Boggett Hall Church....

Air Raid and Food Rationing

Once awake and alert to what was going on, the children became hungry and asked for their breakfast. No...

My memories of WW2

I recall the night of the Big Blitz in Belfast, as in the afternoon I bent down to pat a dog and...

Apple Pickers

At the onset of the war my sister and I were evacuated to Blackpool We lived in Devonshire Road... On our...

Getting Married

The German bombers used to fly up the valley at ground level,below the range of anti- aircraft guns, on...

Air raids in Dukinfield by Pat Plant

"During World War Two my mum and I went to stay with my dad whilst he was stationed at Cottesmore with...

THE DAY WAR BROKE OUT!

There was a gorgeous sandy beach and massive sand dunes where we kids used to play the usual childhood...

Moral Welfare and bombs in Liverpool?

Moral Welfare and bombs in Liverpool. My late Aunty Win told me a little about her moral welfare work in...

My memories of the War

We were all issued with gas masks and the ones for very small children were shaped like Mickey Mouse... In...

Cottenham School Memories

I went to Cottenham village school during the war, and when the siren went every child who lived near...