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air attack

With my mother being older she had the sense to pull her brother out of the way.She pulled him down an...

Did you read the Beano or the Dandy?

"Fireworks over Cardiff". As told by Dr. John Phillips

I remember as a child in 1940 when I was 7 years of age looking out of the bedroom window with my...

Sheila's life as an evacuee

It did get a bit dangerous and so I was evacuated to my Grandmother's house in Littlehampton, Sussex,...

Evacuation

This Picture was taken of My Sister Mary and I ready to take Train to Exeter We lived in Penge S. London...

VE Day

At the beginning of the war my father, John Orchard, found himself in a Protected job working for London...

Breaking coal for Granddad

One of our best games was breaking the coal up for granddad to make a fire with, coal used to come in...

My memory of V.E. Day is

Coming back to the party, they had a bonfire and effigy of Hitler. I took Chris home and the street...

Cocoa Powder Treat

I remember a treat ... at Highfield County Council School on Wright Street in Chorley, we used to get once...

When We Were Young

My Gran & pop werent very old during the war so they cant really remember alot, but they can tell me...

A free meal during the rationing

A German plane was shot down during a air-raid at night,We were sheltering under a concrete slab! In the...

Dorothy's story

While we were in there one day we heard a big bang which actually came from a "Big Bertha gun" and...

My Memory of VE Day

As a 15 year old building apprentice with a firm in Longsight opposite the Astoria Ballroom. The resident...

"Sunday was a day off!"

I was only six when the war started. I was at church on the Sunday 3rd September, when I got back, my...

Allotments

My earliest memories when I was 5 or 6 was walking across the park to go to Church on a Sunday morning...

"doing our bit"

When I was 14, I had the opportunity to spend a month in the Cotswolds - picking potatoes, plums and...

Knitting for evacuees

My aunt used to do a lot of knitting, especially for the evacuees....

Evacuation

My memories of the war was when i was sent with my brother and two sisters to Kirby ... The family I...

Battle Of Britain

We had finished one hop garden in September when the Battle of Britain, when we witnessed a dogfight in the...

help

Where are you Margaret Roberts. Nevertheless, I ask just one more time - "Where are you Margaret...

hope you never see thia again

I was five living in Edmonton north London with my dad Len mum Rose and sister Rosina I cant remember the...

Living with the Germans - bands and singing

Well, the soldiers used to come down our road a lot, we lived near the major railway junction and there...

Ice-cream...need I say more?

Ice-cream...need I say more. I not only saw but tasted something glorious for the first...

Baby in the Bath

A pice of shrapnel from a bomb which had dropped nearby, came through the window through a wall and landed...

No you can鈥檛 go to the party girls

I remember my self and my sister were going to the VE Day party but then my mum had had a row...

Making underwear from parachute silk

Well I remember making underwear from parachute silk from two landmines that landed not far from my home in...