All the kids from Yarmouth rd. walked together for start of term Sept 1944, the older ones herding the...
Home Guard, on behalf of Phyllis Powell and has been added to the site with Mrs. Powell's...
The pictures show the army camp, later the prisoner of war camp, at Collingwood Farm, on the north side of...
He lived in Dover and there was only one radio set in the street. All the people in the street gathered...
I was two when the war broke out and the day of the evacuation, The Welfare Centre sent us to Gloucester...
We were taken down to West Byfleet in Surrey and we were going to a lady who was expecting two boys... I...
During 1939, brick and concrete air raid shelters were built in the playground of Oldswindford C of E...
There was a large crater in the road about 30 yards from our house. The only damage to our house was a...
In order to share this mars bar out properly, she had to divide it into 8 smalll pieces for everyone to...
Dad worked on the Gladstone Dock, which was frequently alight because of the Germans, dropping...
The church bell was to be rung during the war if the Germans invaded to warn everybody. I was sixteen years...
My name is David Osborne, and I have been searching for my brother, whom I have not seen since 1939. After...
During the war the American army were stationed in the town of Bampton Devon, working on our farm at Druids...
My mother took in evacuees - she would go to the railway station and meet them....
I must have been seven or eight at the time, living in Bexley in Kent with my parents and my younger...
Italian Prisoner of War? My mum was living at Bidborough Hall in 1943 and there was an Italian Prisoner of...
I remember having a label tied to me and my sister with a piece of string at the Railway Station. We were...
On February 10th 1943 the Newbury Canal Boys and Girls modern School was bombed in the afternoon... 15...
I was evacuated from Lowestoft in May 1940 with my brother, Eric and our schools. We went by train to...
It was difficult to keep a family on rations, but if you knew the butcher he would keep you offal or...
Our next door neighbour on the farm was fostering evacuees from Liverpool, so I was going to school with...
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