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Jeanette's Story

The bay was where a lot of the action was.People was trying to escape from France ,and the Germans were...

Scars of World War Two

Dad had taken me with him to a teacher's meeting in Sheffield, no one was to know that Sheffield would...

Remembering Events in the Vichy Zone of France during World War Two

On 11 November the Germans invade the French unoccupied zone in the South of France. Jean-Pierre was...

WARTIME MEMORIES

I remember sitting with the girl who later became my wife in the dining room of her parents' house in...

The People's War

At Dunkirk they all lay on a sandy beach, while German Bombers flew along the back of the beach...

Changes in Family Life 1939-1941

Lil would marry one of the Chatsworth gardeners, and Doreen would marry the son of the man who farmed the...

School Life in Ossett

I needed 1 gymslip, dark green, with a red girdle, 2 long sleeved cream blouses with a square neck, 2 pair...

The Day We Went to Blackpool

I'm sure, George Thomas, Wilf Riding, 鈥淒ickie鈥� Hartles, 鈥淭ich Jones,鈥� Eric...

Early Days

Then we all bathed kids first Mum Dad then the dogs, Dad then bailed it out before hanging it back on the...

The Effects of the War on Bridport

I and several young people - there was Tony Palmer, who was a son of the brewery in Bridport, , myself,...

The Wartime Voyage of Child

Alan Gibby I was living in Gibraltar when war was declared in 1939, my Father was a master mariner and I,...

Margaret Johnson

Somehow it all happened and Sedbury Laundry became part of the village, and continued to grow as more...

My Mothers' Experience of World War II - Memories of a Young Girl

My eldest sister, Doreen, was working in a factory making tins and I went to work at Carr's Biscuit...

Jenny's Memories

My maternal grandfather owned the Pavilion Picture House in Forfar, and picture houses in Glasgow and...

Wartime in Birmingham

Birmingham was heavily bombed by the Luftwaffe. One thing that sticks in my mind is hearing the whoomph!...

My Childhood and WW2: Bristol

I recall the air-raid shelters, our next door neighbour had an Anderson shelter while in a friend's...

Growing Up in Wartime Coventry

The Spring of 1940 saw me sitting the entrance examination for Coventry Technical College and I commenced...

A Village Policeman's Daughter

The local men from the village formed the 鈥渉ome guard鈥� and my dad, as an ex- guardsman would...

The East End Legacy: My Family Story

My Mum and Dad met when they were just 14 years old on a Council estate in Essex. No, what used to...

Christmas 1939

Please God, make Mum come and take me home for Christmas. Please God, tell Mum to come and take me home for...

Memories of World War 2

We stuck it out in London until the Doodle Bugs started and then my parents gave in and returned to...

Black Bloomers and Blackout Curtains

I started my working life at Friars Croft laundry in Wymondham and later I went to work for the Wymondham...

Why must Joy be Tainted with Pain and Sorrow?

There had been a very frightening moment too, when Mum had opened the front door to see a telegraph boy...

The Beginning.

I had to feed the animals with Mum when Dad could not get home and that meant washing bags of potato's...

Occupied Islands (Part 3)

I'm sure some enjoyed it and a lot of friendships were made but imagine raw recruits from various inner...

Life in London and a Staffordshire Ordinance Factory

I was sent to the Royal Ordinance Factory at Swinnerton, in Staffordshire....