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World War 1

At the time of the WW2 Flossie, her husband and son were living in Fulwell, Sunderland. Mrs Routledge has...

Wartime memories of Bedford

The aircraft factory was J P White's on Bromham Road, Bedford....

My Dad's Coat

It was a saturday night and there was a church parade the next day....

How We Survived

My memories of the war are that food and clothes and even bicycles were rationed due to the war and U-boats...

We gradually began to realise

Everybody seemed to come out on the doorsteps, I don't know why but I distinctly remember everyone...

My war

It was my dad, he had just landed from Dunkirk - my mum passed the phone down to me and I said...

General De Gaulle was down the road

I remember when we had the ‘Free French’ here and General De Gaulle was down the road in...

Crown Street factory story

I attended school when I was a child, but as soon as I turned 14, I had to go work in the...

Girls from Guildford

Two girls called Doreen and Mary....

My view of the war

I was born in Aldershot in 1931, and grew up in Camberley. My father was working at the Sanders Academy,...

My Dads Sunday Lunch

My father worked at the Chatham Dockyard and he liked his routine... I got off it one day and the siren...

"Under The Stairs, Quick"! Related by Enid Middleton nee Villis

Related by Enid Middleton nee Villis. I remember sitting round the breakfast table in Manchester Road I...

My first job - Petrol pump attendant

If you were say a farmer, you got green coupons, if you were a traveller you got red coupons. diffrent...

Baby Memories by Paula Rands (nee Roylance)

I remember being in my pram, my Dad was going back from leave and we were waving him off on the tram....

MY teenage years

My parents were in business in Birmingham, I lived with my Aunt and Grandmother... I worked voluntarily at...

My war

It was my dad, he had just landed from Dunkirk - my mum passed the phone down to me and I said...

School days

When I first lived in Nottingham, we were bombed out at Chilwell, so we had to leave to come back to the...

Treat of the week

My father was not in the services due to disablement but worked for The Ministry Of Works... A regular meal...

My War Experience

The hospital then decided that pregnant mums should be evacuated to the Isle of Wight and so on September...

Life off Bravenvale Avenue

He was a Sherwood Forester on the east coast....

Survivors from Dunkirk

At the time of Dunkirk I lived in George Street in Reading....

'Mother's Memories' as told by her daughter Gillian Goldsmith.

'Mother's Memories' as told by her daughter Gillian Goldsmith. She stopped work briefly when...

3 Lancasters going over Redruth

I was born in 1940 and as a child can remember 3 Lancaster bombers going over Redruth - they were probably...

Eire and Rationing

I spent some time with my unit in Portadown. We went to a grocer's shop in Portadown to get her usual...

Hearing

None of the soldiers were given any protection and both of Arthur's eardrums burst... When Arthur tried...

Marching through Bodmin

Ths photograph above shows us marching through Bodmin on the 21st February 1942. Behold the Dawn Sticky...