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WW2 in Jamaica

My school teacher in Jamaica had a daughter who was studying to be a doctor in England. It was during the...

Wartime Childhood Memory

P.S. The target was always Viker Armstrong's Munitions Factory....

My first memory of a doodlebug

Our time in Yorkshire was most enjoyable and I have still very fond memories but always will feel sad that...

V E Day Memories of Mrs. Martin

To have to leave my Mum, Dad, two brothers and a sister, and to see my Mum and others on the kerb...

Bill's Childhood Memories of Swindon as told to his wife Enid

Bill recalls, as a 10 year old in 1940 or 1941,going to the County Ground to play football only to find...

Yes we have no bananas

Gran had a friend whose son came home on leave and brought some bananas with him... On the same day a very...

A bomb in the chimney

I grew up in wartime Thetford and although just a child at the time I can remember listening to the bombs...

War Memories

We didhave a soldier as a lodger and during harvest time the soldiers helped with the harvest... A vivid...

Plane Accident in Brighton

I was avacuated to love with my grandmother in Woodingdene, near Brighton....

Gloucestershire - growing up in the co-op during the war

I was lucky enoghf to go to Sir Thomas Riches, and I was leaving at the age of 17 to join the...

My Evacuation Photograph

This 'story' A4423033 is just to show the photograph taken of me - Betty Bentley as I was - in 1940...

VE Day

I was working in Marks and Spencer's in Northumberland Street, I lived in Hunters Road Spital Tongues....

Early Memories

My earliest memory of WW2 was of being a toddler in arms being carried to the mill at the top of our...

Red Cross And Romance

My friend and I joined the Red Cross which was held in a hall at Page Park, Staple Hill... The G.I's...

memories

We lived near the Drill Hall in Nureaton Warwickshire near Coventry. My father used to provide snacks and a...

Savings and Iron Railings

You took sixpence or 2 and sixpence to school and that was the war effort. We lived in a council house and...

Why did the planes drop silver paper?

The Tragic War

We were a family of 5 children Mom and Dad our neighbours were 8 children and a mom and dad. My mom...

long evacuation

I was returning home on VE day to Manchester because I had won a place in a MAnchester High SChool. As I...

Wartime Exhibition

My story is about a Wartime exhibition, which a team of pensionersfrom our church in St.Albans put on to...

WW2 Evacuees

We are pictured with Alan Langford an evacuee form London... Bet still lives in Cannock, Walsall and I am...

School

We had a play ground and sometimes went onto the Abbey Park and pastures to play rounders. It was All...

Yes, we have no Bananas - or any other fruit!

The only fruit available was apples, in season, and all children were desparate for any alternative....

WAR END - VE Day celebrations, burned Hitler effigy.

His story was given to the Trebah WW2 Video Archive, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2004. I...

UXB and the Two Aunts

Bomb in Melton

However, the senior boys were sent out on lookout to warn of enemy aircraft... The only windows affected by...