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Home Guard jokes in Dumfries

Because of the blackouts even when you were walking home in late afternoon or early evening it was always...

A frightening experience but it was a sight I won't forget

I came down Sutton high sreet once, streamers shutting off the road, I snuck under them to get home... Also...

Evacuees and neglect...

Whilst the majority of stories focussing on the evacuation of children during WW2 discuss only the welcome...

Leaving School Early due to Evacuation

Bombing was so bad, my mum and I went to the country and my dad came on his bicycle. Dad's shop was...

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The three brothers came to sunday tea and they could visit whenever they had a day off and came into...

What is it?

Somehow word got round that Bananas would be available in town. I remember going to Bedford with my Father,...

Evacuated to Lancaster

My lasting Memory of World War II is鈥eing fitted with a gas mask, having blackout curtains and...

Making army shoes

I stayed in London during the Blitz and saw the city bombed out. I used to get sugar from the black market...

Working at the International Combustion

I had to paint them and stensil the numbers onto them. My husband worked at Rolls-Royce from eight in the...

Doodlebugs

I was evacuated from Croydon beside the airport following an accident when I was blown through a...

My Wartime

We were not there long as the farmer wanted the women to work on the farm and the children wre a nuisance....

School days in Erdington

I was a pupil at Slade Road School in Erdington. The casualties from the war were so great they turned half...

Wings for Victory Week

By Jennifer Jane Farmer Home Wood Sidbrook West Monkton. During Wings for Victory Week a Poetry competition...

Everyday Life

We used to go on to night's school three nights a week in those days as an apprentice But I can't...

Mother's ears

Clive Greaves was 3 when the war began... But he did not have a choice because his mother was deaf and...

Announcement of Declaration of War

On a Sunday my father and I used to walk up to Wibsey where my grandparents lived. Very shortly, the voice...

Wartime Day Nursery - Duties

They helped with the beds and furniture and always had to clear up their own toys and help to check pieces...

A thirteen year old battery runner

I was a Park Hall battery runner for the ack ack and search light girls... For the war itself though, I was...

Childhood memories

My father did firewatching and mother looked after the three children. Mum would lie over the three...

Catching Eels

My Grandad lived in Brandon,used to fish for eels in the Little Ouse,made his own eel hives from the local...

Testing the Water

Viola remembers the soldiers using the family well for their water, but before they could use it someone...

Exercising the horses in Lacock

My father had one lorry but two horse and carts, and one of our jobs was to ride these horses from the...

My Mate Ken Smith

My neighbours, Mr and Mrs Knot had an evacuee called Ken Smith....

The Tank with the Savings Stamps

One day we went into Liverpool Town Centre and there were lots of blocks of buildings that had been turned...

Someone Stole my Books

I was the youngest in the family and he was bringing me some books but somebody stole his suitcase and he...

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