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Sharing the bus!

Sharing the bus. Plymouth City Transport loaned Western National their open top bus to tree lop on Sundays...

How the War Affected My Taid's Family

When my Taid was in the 8th army the Germans hit him in a truck so he had to go to the...

An Exciting Childhood - Photograph

What We Did As Past Times

My sister Catherine used to go dancing, but I didn't. I used to visit friends and listen to the radio....

MY DAD.

HELLO OUT THERE, MY STORY IS THAT OF MY FATHER, HE WAS VERY BADLY INJURED AT DUNKIRK. HE LAID IN A DITCH...

Me in the war

They were sitting on the beach eating ice-cream and a police man on a bike rode by telling them that war...

Getting Married

You couldn't get the ingredients for the cake but a caterer could so you were obliged to use one....

Elizabeth's Parents Wedding 1

This is a photo of my parents wedding 3rd June 1940 and it took place at St John's Church in...

Giving birth during the war

I was in the Airforce in 1942 in Cornwall. I got an urgent wire telling me to come straight home as my...

Our Car

My father was in Inida so we went to live in Belgrave, Leicester with my grandmother and for a few weeks...

Dorothy War Life Getting There

2dorothy you ARE GOING TYO MISS THE TRAIN you siutcase and bags are down her,and dolly vera to",her...

Petrified Petty Officer

He was on a big battle ship and was a Petty Officer....

Dillon Family Memories

The seven sons all went to war and Uncle Tommy Dillon was captured. Uncle Tommy's wife who was Aunt...

My war memories

My boyfriend was taking me home and shrapnel was coming down. I had a 3 tier wedding cake made with dried...

Eggsaggerate!

Home Guard, on behalf of Kathleen Geering and has been added to the site with Mrs. Geering's...

Gas Masks and Home Guard

One day Emma from two doors away came rushing in. She was very hot and explained she had been under the bed...

Shelter at Portland Walk

I was about 7yrs old and I lived in Portland Road at Diglis, Worcester....

Growing up in the Isle of Man

The day war was declared we were having a new triplex oven installed... I was standing in the oven with my...

Meningitis

He got as far as the railway station, but began to feel unwell, and then collapsed... He was diagnosed with...

Airforce

In January I was stationed. I went to Yarmouth for 15 months and then Gloucester and then looked after the...

Queueing For Food

I recall queuing for food.With both parents working Saturday morning, my brother and I had to get in the...

The Firs Maternity Home (Nottingham 1942)

I was born in the 鈥淔irs鈥� in 1942 and when the sirens went off, all the babies were taken down...

The Holiday Camp that was Sunk?

This story was told to Christine Barker at the VE Celebrations in Beverley in 2005 Beverley by Elizabeth...

Hilda and the blasted cake

Hilda now retired to Church Stretton, Shropshire recalled her wartime experiences - For my 21st birthday my...

Christmas Blackeye!

On the Christmas she took me to join the Girls Training Core... She had a lovely black eye for Christmas....

School Dinners

I stayed at school for dinner one day... My mum couldn't afford for me to stay at school for dinner...