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Tina Thorley's Story

We lived near an ordinance factory so we could hear gunfire all the time... There were a lot of epidemics...

Home Guard; Christabell

I remember my Mum and Dad surrounded by Americans at Rougham airfield. The Americans went on bombing raids...

I REMEMBER

I REMEMBER...

The Headmaster and the Vicar

The Headmaster was very interested in the contents of this turret....

Servant Substitute

I was twelve years old and sent as an avacuee to Ripon in Yorkshire to a large farmhouse that had been used...

Absolute chaos

I was at Varndean and there was lots of aircraft activity, we're talking about 1943 I suppose, and this...

Take What You're Given

The following story appears courtesy of and with thanks to The Liverpool Diocesan Care and Repair...

The day the Bomb dropped (Cheltenham)

Bombing of Dunalley Parade - was early in the morning, when people were just getting up. I was about 5...

a tale of lonliness

I was the eldest so I had to look after my brother and sister as we said our goodbyes to my mother...

Mum was crying

I was living in Canada during the war, before I moved to Scotland....

corned beef

The adjoining houses were showered with tins of corn beef and salmon....

Miracle Baby

One of the most amazing stories I've heard about the war concerns a lady, just a baby at the time, by...

An Evacuation Incident

My sister Lizzy and i were evacuated to Duloe Cornwall... Quick" my sister said, "hide behind the...

Boy Messengers

I would like to bring attention to the members of the "Boy Messengers" who never receive any...

German Pilot to Police Station

If we saw one, we would rush to the Police Station in Lady Well in the centre of Dover....

Wolsingham War Memories

The village I lived in saw the arrival of what was left of the Lancashire Fusilleiers arrive from Dunkirk....

Living with the Germans - the not so good

I remember one day in particular I went up there, I was allowed to go that day and this German officer that...

A Child's View of the Second World War

Everyone in the neighbourhood pulled together and many nights were spent with the children next door all in...

Late night walks in the blackout

One of my clearest memories of the war was going to the post office in the night with my Aunt Anne. All...

A Holiday in Berkshire

But along with my brother Dennis who was three,my sister Doreen who was about one and our mum, we ended up...

Clowne Photographs No. 7

Photographs of the VE Day Celebrations at Creswell Road, Clowne, Derbyshire. I remember these photographs...

Put them on show

I remember the odd German bomber that had been brought down and was in reasonable repair- that is, if it...

Memories of a child's war

I don't remember any bombs but do remember bomb sites everywhere in London. When Mum said that she was...

Evacuated with my Sister Pearl

My mum said we was going to be evacuated and my sister Pearl, who was about nine came so she could look...

Nineteen Forty Five

But was it the day in the history book, Precisely the eighth of May... And if it was later in the year...

Jean Chalmers' War

On one occasion she threw herself on top of me on the bed, it was that close, and they dropped their bombs...