Mother got us out of bed when the air raid sirens went and put us all under the long wooden kitchen table...
We then went to Wilmslow in Cheshire to stay with the Chadwicks. We also went to Wilmslow to visit the...
We danced in Piccadilly, went to Trafalgar Square, all on foot, and finally ended up outside Buckingham...
On her return she said she had rented the corner of a field from Mr Ford, a farmer, along with two chicken...
We trooped up the garden to survey their handiwork, and found the pit full of water. When my stepfather...
I was born in Thornton Heath, London, in 1936 and my younger sister, Jean, was born in 1938....
One memory of the blitz which sticks in my mind was the night of September 7th 1940 when the German planes...
It was at the start of the Second World War when the Headquarters of The St John's Ambulance Brigade...
From listening to the radio we soon learnt that if the planes went to the right of the sugar beet factory,...
THE PLAYTINGFIELD ACROSS THE ROAD FROM WHERE I LIVED WAS TAKEN OVER BY THE ARMY AND BARRAGE BALLOONS...
Two North London schools were evacuated to Abbots Langley, and my father suggested that my mother to accept...
All the children from seperate schools had to stay in chalets but they were in short supply so my Grandad...
On a lovely summer morning we all arrived at the railway station,wheeled our bicycles into the guard's...
That night, just after we all got settled to sleep, the familiar sound of the air-raid siren went off so my...
Although Birmingham was regularly bombed and aircraft droned overhead we were not attacked and soon gave up...
This meant the railway was a target for the German aircraft to bomb during the blitz. One of my most vivid...
My mother told methat after inspecting the new station my father was to leave in an RAF Wellington bomber...
Vegetables were not rationed and the supply of these was eased by many people digging up their back gardens...
During the Summer holidays a number of us had gone to work on a farm at Paglesham, a few miles from...
At the precise moment when mum was reading about a bomb dropping in Granny's bedroom, our own house...
All outside around windows, Brickwork over Front Door Replaced, Plastering etc Sitting Room, Small Bedroom,...
Both the British and Italian Soldiers used to come to our house and use My Mum's piano... As a child it...
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