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Hiding the Magna Carta at Lacock

The Lacock copy of the Magna Carta was concealed in the area - I won't say where - and my father was...

'God Bless the Kids'

Mother had her arms up in the air and said ‘God Bless the Kids’....

Childhood in Lincolnshire

I was only a child in Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire, but my Auntie used to work for the local dairy, and...

Pit Bombing by Helen Young

It was German, and low enough for me to see the piolet and stickers on the sides... Later on, we discovered...

"Ice-cream for V.E. day !"

"Ice-cream for V.E. day ! I had to watch the street party throught the window because I had had my...

Sweets in School

Soon after I started school in November 1944 the school received a parcel from somewhere in USA. Much more...

Liberation - Sweets!

When we were finally liberated there was so much joy and excitement, I remember our schoolteacher lining us...

Ten Green bottles

It was Reddal Infants school in Birmingham. I can also remember seeing the sky when Coventry was bombed...

My Tale

My Uncle Leslie was an M.P in North Allerton, Yorkshire. He told me a story of a German Prisoner of War who...

Nearly Evacuated...

My friend Trevor and I were going to be evacuated, our paretns thougth it would be a good idea, and one of...

The gas mask became a fashion accessory

You took your gas mask holder out of the box and put it in your green rexine and put a zip across...

Childhood Memories

My first memory of the impending war, was returning from a holiday in North Wales to find the rows of...

Trapped in a Cupboard! as told by Dr.John Phillips

Trapped in a Cupboard! as told by Dr.John Phillips. In 1940 when I was 7 years of age I can recall that...

a land girl remembers

I have recorded the story of a land girl who served in northumberland and it is approx 10 pages of A4....

Mr Kitchen's Story

Mr Kitchen was in the airforce who decided to make him an instructor, he was then an instructor at the...

Boys at war

My father in law, Amos Bostock was 15 when he was in the war and weas abroad. He came face to face...

Being evacuated

I was evacuated to Lincolnshire with my sister and then I went home and I was evacuated again to Pateley...

The tin hat

I remember one night when I was on night duty; I was on the phone in the passage just outside the ward...

First Ice Cream

My memories of the Second World War were my evacuation in 1941 where l was evacuated to Colchester in Essex...

Lucky Toilet Break

What I remember about the war was when there was an air raid, Mum got us all under the stairs with a...

Being a child in Connah's Quay in the war

I was in the same house during the war that I live in now, in Connah's Quay....

Good times too

There was a serious side to it as well, but we had good times too... It cost us sixpence every Monday, and...

School time in the war

Because of evacuation in 1939 there were very few teachers left, so we'd go to school one week in the...

Early Memories of the War.

I was born in Rangoon Burma in the late 30s... My mother was in hospital having my younger sister and my...

Have You Got Any Gum Chum?

Have You Got Any Gum Chum. There was a convoy of American soldiers outside All Saints Church and we shouted...

St Joseph’s RC Church and School Bombing

My lasting Memory of World War II is…when I was 7 years old, after a raid my Mum told me that St...