We had German and Italian prisoners of war to help with the work. There were wartime recipes on the radio...
These recollections were told to me by Mr Fox's sons, Barry and Raymond, at Old Harlow library during a...
I was living with my parents at my grandmother's shop at No.23 Nunhead Lane, situated opposite Nunhead...
He was evacuated a few times and my parents told me heart-rending stories about borrowing cars and driving...
As we grew older my sister and I would go to the local cinema, there was always a special children's...
Until my marriage I lived in Fulham Park Gardens, London SW6.My fiance in Barnes... My new husband could...
The Monday morning began as normal, with Dad and myself walking with a hand truck into Darwen town centre,...
Alfreton was hit during the bombing, mostly in fields, however there were casualties, a firewatcher was...
One of her grandchildren, one of my cousins, was in the A.T.S.. She drove 鈥渢op brass鈥 military...
With the Colonel's wife, we scrambled at the ambulance station where we prepared hot water bottles,...
By contrast the railway at Aldridge with the odd passenger train and trains of coal and bricks from the...
Then in March 1941, a German a bomb completely destroyed our home in Luckington Rd, Horfield, Bristol......
At that time there were soldiers from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa coming over to the deserts....
He kept a diary throughout the war years which documented his experiences as a schoolboy living in London...
Rosie had to take her little brother and we big girls were truly affronted when he got a Mickey Mouse gas...
It was one morning about miday whilst at Languard that we observed a sea plane flying in, very low, from...
One other brother was a Naval Commando who survived the war but became mentally ill, i think as a result of...
There was Mum, Dad and our big Chow dog... Rationing came and many a time I queued up 2 hours for 4...
They arrived just in time to replace Redcar Cricket Club lads who had been called up; players included both...
My grandfather was a lorry driver and contracted to London Brick. During the day he would take a lorry load...
Wife of a serving officer posted to Bridport, Mrs Davies arrived in Bridport in the summer of 1941. And...
Because it was dangerous in Derby I was sent to stay with an aunt, Hilda Steeples, a school teacher who...
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