When the evacuees arrived in Woodbridge, I and some other people met them off the train... My mother took...
Sylvia and some friends went on a camping trip to Wales. On the way from London they get caught in a...
I remember one journey I made from Lincoln to Torquay. I didn't want to go via London and it took me a...
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Near where we lived in Withernsea there was a Prisoner of War Camp... The German prisoners were brought out...
PARENTS BACK THEN WERE VERY STRICT, I REMEMBER HAVING TO RUN HOME FROM THE ODEAN CINEMA IN CHAPEL BAR ALL...
A trainload of evacuees came to Middlewich Town Hall. My grandparents went there to see if there was any...
Bradbrooks have Bananas. A local greengrocer, Mr. Bradbrook, would occasionally get a consignment of...
Our mother was worried when our father was going out to see if any incendiary bombs had been dropped during...
A wartime cure for a chesty cough and indeed, whooping cough was to wear a "tarred rope" necklace...
In the local Baptist church Elsie Chapman was playing badminton one night and the next night the church was...
The first few years of my life were spent with my Mother and Grandparents as my father was a Japanese...
As told by Nell Aylett nee Newman. I'll always remember a lovely sunny Thursday afternoon, standing on...
One dark winter's night, my sister came home from work and mother said to me 鈥淕o and open the...
Shortly after the ship sailed we all went to Yorkshire, where my Grandfather and aunts lived... Did Mum...
Our mum said that we must sleep under the stairs for the night....
One night, my mother sent my sister, Myra and I to collect one of my other sisters, Cathy... Realising wew...
Children, without their parents knowledge, would collect cigarette ends from pavements and gutters - there...
My brother and I made some catapults using car inner-tube rubber for the elastic part. When the B17's...
That same year there was an old cottage at Run Common that had to be pulled down because of a bomb... The...
However this is my only opportunity of saying "thank you" to all the brave men and women of the...
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