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Stories categorised in 'Childhood and Evacuation'. These stories may contain references to other themes.

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FIRST CAR RIDE, FIRST PARTY. (pic.12)icon for Story with photo

Mums aunt, Ada Maria Saunders, was killed on 21 August. I believe due to flying bomb on the house....

V-weapons

My Grandparents used to tell me about how during the latter days of the war they would sit at the bottom of...

Machine gunned whilst swimming in the sea

I was only 10 years of age when the war started and was bombed out twice and also machine gunned whilst...

Jill on the Land poster: Scotland

Jill on the Land poster: Scotland...

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Eating food as a child

My mother, Nellie Marsden, used to tell us at meal-times that if we didn't clear our plates we were...

Wartime strawberries

Smith and has been added to the site with his permission....

George,make the baby a feed

With regard to my previous story, The church in the story was and still St.Gabriels,Middleton junction.The...

FIRST CAR RIDE, FIRST PARTY. (Pic. 13)

They still fill me with sadness. "Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for...

Gas Masks!

I hated it; it was smelly, tight and uncomfortable' it made me panic and I would not do it and never...

home guard conversation summer 1940

B: Not until we're armed....

Dunkirk Evacuation

I was only 8 years old but remember the troops returning from Dunkirk and being billeted in the local...

Barrage Balloon

Around February 1940, I remember seeing a barrage balloon overhead that had broken from its moorings....

Politics

I hated Hitler. I was inspired by Winston Churchill's determination and apparent confidence....

Stirrup Pump: Scotlandicon for Story with photo

Stirrup Pump: Scotland...

Dancing at The Plaza

I remember when we used to go dancing at The Plaza on London Road, Derby....

VE Day Winterbourneicon for Story with photo

A Party held at the Winterbourne Church to celebrate VE Day May 1945....

Most Bombed Village

High Easter in Essex was the most bombed village....

GB declared WWII on my 7th birthday

I have my story saved as a Word document, as you recommend....

Carol Singing

Pat and I went carol singing and sent the money we collected to Tilbury Hospital. They used the money to...

FIRST CAR RIDE, FIRST PARTY. (Pic. 15)icon for Story with photo

FIRST CAR RIDE, FIRST PARTY. Lorry two joins the line-up....

Scouting

M43 Tunic: Scotlandicon for Story with photo

M43 Tunic: Scotland...

My Memory of VE Day

My Memory of VE Day...

My memory of V.E. Day is

Being awakened in the middle of the night and taken by my parents to join in the dancing and singing and...

Grandfather and Father's War Experiences

FIRST CAR RIDE, FIRST PARTY. (Pic.11)icon for Story with photo

FIRST CAR RIDE, FIRST PARTY. Dads Brother, sister-in-law, and three of there sons, were killed in an...

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