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Train bomb

Marjory and her daughter Ann, then a baby, were on a train in London... The train was bombed and only those...

Bugs in the Back to Backs!

Bugs in the Back to Backs. We had iron bedsteads because of the bugs — they couldn't get in the...

macindoes men

macindoes men...

Sheila Holley nee Fenn with Her Father

The photo was taken just before war broke out and Sheila and her 2 brothers were evacuated - all to...

'Being bombed with Daddy'

I said to my mother "I want to go back to London and be bombed with Daddy". So we went back to...

Letters From The War

We raffled it to raise money and sent it to Mrs Churchill... I still have the letter and she wrote that she...

ABOUT ME

Bill's School Day Memory at Gorse Hill School. as told to his wife Enid.

Bill's School Day Memory at Gorse Hill School. as told to his wife Enid. School days, 1940, Bill...

War experiences

During air raid, an incendiary bomb fell through the roof of our bungalow, through ceiling, through bird...

Evacuation to Little Bytham, Lincs.

Evacuation to Little Bytham, Lincs. "I was evacuated to my grandma's in Little Bytham, Lincolnshire...

My V.E Day Dress

I had a blue dress with red spots and a white collar for the V.E day and I also had an uncle...

Planes on Display

I don't remember too much about the details but do remember seeing a German plane on Braunstone Park...

Taunton story

I had lots of friends in the war but one particularly good friend. I was 20 years old when I was stationed...

My memory of V.E. Day is

I was in the WAAF's, arriving back into camp in Yorkshire at midnight, after having delivered materials...

Cards from Italy

I remember having Christmas cards from Italy, the envelopes had Italian stamps. One brother sent a sack of...

Walney Island Air Forces

At first Evelyn went to Morecambe do her squarebashing and then she was posted to Walney Aerodrome. Evelyn...

Taped Memories by Deanne Roberts

He was called Elisher Roberts....

Freedom of the borough

It so happened that I lived in Winston Churchill's parliamentary constituency and had the honour of...

Was this a query?

Later we had Australian airmen billeted on us and they were always friendly to us children. Whenever people...

No school thanks to the War

When I was about 9 or 10 years old we didn't have to go to school for lessons we had to go...

Personal experiences during the war

By: Roy Kerslake 6 at the time, lived in sampford peverall. I can remember we had a girl from London...

Maths with Masks

1940 — We had to put the gas masks on in school during maths for practice and sat like that through...

Raining sweets

I can remember being taken by my Dad into the town... Dad said to me 'Wave to the soldiers....

Life on Oxclose Farm during the War by Helen Young

My parents were farming there during the war and there was one occasion when the air raid siren hadn't...

My first air-raid warning

Before the war started we had a holiday at the seaside as we always did and whilst at the seaside the...

Germans in Bradford

I lived in bradford, and was a nurse when Bradford was bombed... One German told me that he had bombed my...