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Hitchin's ARP volunteers

The Hitchin ARP team is seen posing in front of their ambulance outside the Woodside Hall in Hitchin,...

What a day that was

I went out with friends to Newcastle upon Tyne and, with thousands of others, we danced in the streets....

Jean's story

I also remember being in Sutton Park helping to fill sand bags at the age of 18. I became a children's...

Sam's War Part Four by Jane Foster

May and I went back to my hometown of Southampton after the war... Ernest Jones the biggest department...

Treats for birthdays

During the war my mother, Edith Clifford had to leave domestic service, and went to work at a...

Evacuation

In the crowded station,there was crying children clinging desperately to their mums.They had small gas...

why me mr roy died

why me mr roy died...

Hurricane's unscheduled landing in a field

My older brother John saw a plane land in a field near ross on Wye....

End of War

I lived in Cirencester during the war; in fact refugee's lived near by... On this occasion she rang the...

The birth of my first daughter Sylvia

My first daughter Sylvia was born on the 10th September 1939....

VE Night - A memory of bonfires

Having been seconded for a period to an area outside London, on VE Night I had to travel overnight to my...

War Time Memories Around Saxilby 4

Our water was from a well pump which is a well with a pump erected over the top with a plunger adn...

Evacuees

The first batch of evacuees to be sent out of harms way. My recollections of that day was being taken to...

Too Far to Cycle

Story told to Christine Barker at the VE Day Celebrations in Beverley 2005. Mr and Mrs Duffels they had two...

The Night The Bombs Dropped

One night we were all at home Mam, Dad and me and 2 brothers 1 sister... While she was out the sirens...

The Blasts

Vibrations of one of the blasts shook my sisters home and one part of the bedroom fell down so they could...

Chichester Bus Station

I remember vividly standing in a bus queue outside the Bus Station in Chichester, when suddenly without...

members of the airaid shelter

We are Lewis, Kennedy and Lacie. We interviewed joan ford to find out what it was like to be a child in...

Being Evacuated

During the war I was evacuated to Worksop, my whole family was... I went to Berridge Road School....

POWs

At four years old I was warned not to go to the top field of the farm, we lived there to be...

Wonderful Lights

One of my first memories is from when the May Blitz was on. It is being taken down the garden in my...

German Uniform

A German uniform fell out... They took it to the police expecting a reward but instead they were told off...

What? The Wars Over?!

My Grandma was 21 years old and working in Napiers Aircraft Factory on the East Lancs... She and all her...

Living under occupation - wool shortage

My mother used to … sit in the bedroom window knitting, she always seemed to be knitting or...

It's about time he got his VC

Dunkirk and many other theatres of war - please get in touch with him. Mr J Biddle Moseley Old Hall Cottage...

The day the war started

I was eight years old and staying in Edinburgh with my Granny... When the broadcast was over the sirens...