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When the air raid siren went off during the day the teacher would instruct the children in times tables or...
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Our convoy sailed out across the Atlantic and we headed toward Greenland to avoid enemy U-boats, passing...
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The whole family who weren't ‘pig sitting’ scrounged on abandoned demolition sites for old...
Our food ration was one egg, two ounces of butter, four ounces of bacon, two ounces of cheese etc. A...
During the raids he woudl play with his brother and sister to the park but when the bombs started had to...
The village church at Littleham had a tomb for the Nelson family and I suppose some thought my young...
Another plan was put into action whereby we, the older girls each had to take two younger children out of...
Burnham was en route to London so we saw lots of bombers going over. The float was made of balsa wood, and...
We lived in Cleves Road named after one of Henry VIII's wives as were all the roads around us, e.g....
The air raid warnings were a daily event and bombs dropping, as Enemy planes flew overhead en route to the...
From Finsbury Park Station we went to Huntingdon North Station. Huntingdon Grammar pupils had attended the...
My Father who grew fruit and vegetables and sold them to his customers in the Chapel area of Southampton, I...
Stone steps led down from the back door into a yard with an outside lavatory and a coal house... I remember...
My dear Mum at 8 Carrill Drive, my sister in Macclesfield billeted with the family of the Town Clerk of...
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