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Jean recalls watching a dog fight from her Aunt's bedroom, near Dartford Heath. There was the Joyce...
Bath night was Friday and of course nobody had an abundant supply of hot water so my mum would put the...
Both at grammar school, a girl called Janice and. a boy called John, I suppose John must have been about...
Mum packed our suitcases and we got on the coach, called the Royal Blue and headed for Grampound which is...
"Oh yes, from Martin Mill in Dover, right around the North Kent coast, including mills at North...
Together with my two brothers, we eat, played and slept in the room that had been protected by this...
So my mother was organising for me to go to a London school which had been evacuated to Kettering, called...
Not long after the war started mum had to billet two war workers, they were Charles Cooper and Fred Sawyer,...
A group of us were evacuated to Dulverton in Somerset, escorted by a wonderful teacher, Mr Beaumont and his...
She lived on Falkenseer Chausse, a broad boulivard running through Spandau in the NW of Berlin,with her...
I have vivid memories of my childhood throughout WW2.I was born in the year 1936, in the town of Whitehaven...
To introduce myself, my name is Peter Brunt and I lived on a large dairy and arable farm, Sudlow Farm in...
As I was only born in june 1940 my memories of WW2 are scant but still very vivid, owing to the fact...
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I went to Callington first of all, which was an agricultural college, and I think it was nearly six months...
My younger Sister was badly affected by the raids and my Mother agreed that she should be evacuated - she...
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The popular songs of the day were "Run, Rabbit, Run", "Roll out the Barrel",...
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