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Earliest Memories. As told by John Turner.

He would come for mum, brother, sister and myself on some evenings to take us down to the shelters. After a...

DAILY LIFE - rationing

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

Oil Lamps, Night Lights and an Earth Closet

A Tick In time Save Nine

During the 1942 part of the war in the early hours of the morning.A Frank Webber, came knocking on my...

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A song we children sang during those war years

Whistling bombs They must not scare us....

The Mysterious Yellow Thing

The story that my partner and I liked the best was about a banana! The story of the banana starts in Mrs...

Under Miss Fielding's Table

We was a St Michaels School in Maidstone. One morning a bomb dropped in Tovil on the railway sidings....

Last ones chosen

They used to choose people in the hall and my sister and I were one of the last ones chosen because we...

No School for Me!

As this didn't materialise, a gang of us, used to scavenge around - selling firewood, jam jars, things...

All the servicemen returning from Dunkirk

I was stood at Drake's statue, in Tavistock and i saw all the soldiers, different nationalities, all in...

Bottoms Up.

We all sat at the large round dining table drinking tea when after an air raid warning , a bomb was heard...

Bomb in Melton

A bomb was dropped which landed on the shelters... The only windows affected were in a Classroom vacant...

A Twelve Year Old's Memories Of VE Day

Mother and son took the bus to the West End to celebrate, but could get no further than Whitehall because...

11 plus Day

The evening before V E day I was anxiously waiting for Winston Churchill to announce the end of the war in...

A Childs memory of Dunkirk

I was in Dover at the time of the evacuation from Dunkirk... I was taking trays of tea to the survivors, I...

Porridge and peeling tatties

The morning shift was always hard becuase we had 150 soldiers coming in at the one time, all looking for...

My Dad.

My Dad was born & grew up in Chesterfield Derbyshire,is name was Peter Wood.everyone called Him...

Sisters evacuated

Two sisters were evacuated in 1939 to Southport from Bootle Liverpool lived with a family of four quite...

Experience of WW2

You had salt tablets you had to take 5 everyday.They were all getting sun burnt....

Priory School ‘Three for the price of one’

Mr Jones the woodwork teacher proceeded to put the stick across their backsides, he came to this lad who...

THE SAFE CITY

WHEN WE QUESTIONED THIS MY MOTHER POINTED OUT THAT SHE WAS AT WORK AT 14 AND THAT SHE SPENT MOST OF THE...

Memories of Liverpool

We had an Anderson Shelter in the garden.My father was in the Army and we used to stand outside watching...

My father - and the London Blitz

Fed was an orphan of Gypsy Rose Lee Smith and was left on a doorstep in Porthcawl. He was picked up by...

1939-HMS Rawalpindi-and Life of an evacuee

I was born in 1937 and in 1939 my father was called up as a Naval reservist to serve on HMS Rawalpindi-an...

Evacuation

Gladys Lloyd recalls being evacuated to Shropshire:-. We put the kids’ beds down there and as soon as...

Sweet Smell of Chocolate

As we went along we saw a Cadbury's Chocolate wrapper on the floor in the street... One of us picked up...

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