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Working at Boots in the War

I used to put together gas masks, I was a Charcol Filler — filling in the gas mask containers......

Hearing the siren go

Before we could get there, we all heard the sound of a plane, and on looking out toward Bolton Road saw a...

War posters

Yes when we went into the town centre with our parents there were big sign boards hanging along the road...

Childhood in Wartime Reddirch

I also had my first orange and it was a blood orange. I told my mum I couldn't eat it because it...

Air raids Under the Table!

Between Seacroft and Crossgates on the outskirts of North East Leeds was a tank factory manufacturing...

Life near a prisoner of war camp

The prisoners used to come down and take water from my Grandma and the Germans came down and made me...

Elsie Hughes my story

My lasting memory of world war 2 is being evacuated at 12 years old to Blackpool what a great time... We...

Posh Girls

I remember when we were at Bletchley Park there was an awfully posh girls who were — we were placed...

tree rescue

My granny Margaret Watson lived in London during the blitz and one night when she was in bed her house was...

Rabbit Pie

My grandmother was in the middle of cooking a rabbit pie as my uncle was due home on leave, but a bomb...

Everyone was the same

There were publications of how to make cakes without eggs etc. There were black outs and we weren't...

School days in Wigton, Cumbria

As the school was closed down, all of the pupils were sent to the Primary School in Wigton to continue with...

Belgian refugees in Brixham

There was a new unused holiday camp, the Dolphin, in Brixham that was being used by Canadian soldiers who...

A toddlers memories of Occupation - MILITARY EXERCISES.

Mr. Basil de la Mare of Courtil Blicq Farm, St. Andrew's told how, without notice, a group of soldiers...

My alternative use for gas masks

The whole time I spent at the Grammar School was during the war, I can remember using our gas masks in...

Fish and chips

Just befor and during the war, my mum and dad had a fish and chip shop. During the war when everything was...

Childhood Memories

My first memory is of seeing a plane on fire flying near Carlton le Moorland towards, maybe, Waddington......

Childhood Memories - Chewing Gum from the G.I's

You see I had been given chewing gum before when the G.I's were marching along to the dockyard and my...

Liverpool to Llanelli

I was evacuated from Liverpool to Llanelli in Wales... I had brothers and sisters in Liverpool....

At School

One day, my teacher loaned my cup to another pupil and when I told Mum, she went to the school and...

Somewhere to Sleep

The lady in the house had a pump in the front garden and we would pump the water out from the ground...

On my way to school

An ARP warden shouted "Where are you going?" and I said "back to school!...

Memories of VE Day Celebrations

This account was related to Denis Price of The ´óÏó´«Ã½ People`s War Team, The ´óÏó´«Ã½ Open Centre, Hull. He said,...

Evacuation Day

Myself and my sister were taken to Central station in Manchester, by our mother, we had labels pinned to...

My First Foreigner

Home Guard, on behalf of Cynthia Wigley and has been added to the site with Mrs. Wigley's...

Life in Leeswood during the war

The nearest bomb that dropped was in Pontblyddyn, and I lived in Leeswood... An airplane came down in...