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Keeping warm with the oven

When it was cold at night my mum used to take the oven shelf out wrap it up in a blanket and...

Serving in the Navy.

I Born India 24th April 1919, I came to Tiverton when I was 3 years old, when I was old enough I...

Fire on Ship

We were going to America to take prisoners, then two days out they set fire to the ship. We were taken off...

Hitch Hiking

Standing at the roadside lorry drivers would stop for us. At one time at the transport cafe in Gloucester...

Courting

Later I was stationed near Moira. Visits to pubs and families went on the same as ever and the uncertain...

RADIO

It was all radio,we used to like Dick Barton and the "Man in Black", Jimmy Clitheroe, Flanagan and...

The Radio

I was six when war broke out and twelve when it ended and could scarcely remember not being at war, with...

Under the Table

My grandmother Ethel and her sister Joan were living with their mother at the time as their husbands were...

Army Story

He always told the story about the Americans who were flying to one of the soldier's hometown and gave...

Villige Boy

It was dark and it had loads of spider webs. What was the food preperation like....

Occupation School meals

Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays we went all day and the Sisters provided soup... And they couldn't...

Lamb for Dinner

In 1940 when rationing became a problem, some of our neighbours would issue an invitation to dinner, saying...

Bombed out Grandparents

My Grandparents were bombed out when they lived in London in 1941....

Growing up in wartime Kingswear

I have placed the story of Reg Little growing up in wartime Kingswear between the ages of 12 and 18 on...

Green Pyjamas

We went to the basement in the middle of the night in winter; my father was smiling at me and wearing green...

Travelling the worl

My grandfather Victor was a tank driver in the second world war... My grandfather couldn't speak any...

Mother's Embarrassment as told by Sally White

My mother Irene Wheeler told me that when we had to go to the Police Station when the siren sounded I was...

Elizabeth Watt's Pictures

Me at about 6 months old with my mom and dad in Crowther Street in Kidderminster. My dad is wearing his...

The "graves" of Uncle Charlie

This is the story of Uncle Charlie's graves... Uncle Charlie was the hero of the Town of Gavere - he...

Jersey child

I was on the last boat to leave Jersey with my Mother Father and brother I was 2 nearly three.We came to...

The Peoples War

Both I and Harry Levine were anxiously awaiting 'demob' when this photo was taken in India just...

Coping with the war in Anglesey

My brother had two little girls of 5 and 7... And Huw, my brother, lost his wife, so I brought his son,...

Ferndale Road

Was working night shift during world war two when bombs narrowly missed Gas Works but hit recreation ground...

An unexpected Meeting

In about 1941/42, Brighton was a restricted area and I remember that my father and my brother went on a...

Sweets

I can remember the day the dinner ladyhad our sweet coupons and then a few days later bringing this big bag...

Brief encounter

I lived in Port Erin from 1936 ... and I went to sea in the merchant navy in 1939 ... we had...