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Memories of childhood in Todmorden

My name's Jean Cridge....

OK you can Join Up George

My brother, George Metheringham was only little, really little in the war but he wanted to go into the Navy...

Dad's Near Misss

In 1942 my Dad, Steve Nichols, was an engineer working at Blackburn's Aircraft Company at Brough......

My husband was shot down

His name was John Davies... But the co-pilot died, but John walked, and eventually he got back....

Wartime in Fife

The things I remember are; Anderson shelters, Being wakened at all hours of the night and taken to the...

A father away for the birth of their children

Whilst he was away in Italy, his daughter, Jeanette Williams was born in her grandma's front room in...

The Perrys War Time Wedding

The Perrys War Time Wedding...

Re: Washing For Monty

Margaret as a young girl in 1940-1941, was in a convent, cared for by the nuns at St Michaels convent in...

Japanese pits

My father was in Burma - I presume he was fighting whatever the Japanese were doing... The Japanese were...

Life on the homefront

All of a sudden a whole German uniform fell out. They took it to the police expecting to get a reward...

American soldiers and entertainment

Entertainment had to be provided for the troops and my father used to run dances for them at weekends in...

My life during the war

I came down to Teversham because I had a sister who was in the Woman's Land Army... I spent 4 and a...

Saved by a scarf!

I was out taking a walk wearing a very long scarf when I heard a rumble which turned out to be about...

Fire Watch

On this particular evening, the sirens went and Dad went off fire watching telling my Mother to go to the...

Joining WJAC

Violet Harris, nee Critchley, remembers joining the WJAC, which she did after leaving school... After her...

When War Broke Out

His eldest son was killed in Normandy, he had been wounded/gassed in WW1. I joined the Army Cadest and...

Anecdotes of WW2 Part 1

A British Secret Agent stood on a street in Nazi occupied France intending to cross the road he looked to...

Attempting to bomb Brymbo Steelworks

I can remember when the Germans were trying to bomb Brymbo Steelworks, near Wrexham....

1945 - a Family's Tiny Tot

1945 - a Family's Tiny Tot...

Freedom of Speech

Our parents had been the children of the first world war and were not in the habit of talking about what...

Recruiting Men from Jamaica

So they recruited men from Jamaica — my father went and worked on building ships....

The "Special".

A brother doing war work My dad in ARP My mother on the Home Front And our evacuee. He didn't know my...

Interned at two

Mum and Dad didn't tell me much, but one thing I do remember was that we stayed at the Belle View hotel...

Japan

I assisted an old Japanese lady up a flight of stairs to the temple where my friend Nori was engaged in...

4½ Year Wait to Marry

I got engaged at 19 just before my fiancé went abroad. We got married within three weeks of his return...

The first memory of my Dad

I remember my Dad coming home from leave....