The cottage Miss Pugh lived in had no running water and no indoor toilet. A gang of us used to walk around...
The whole village gave pots and pans and donated food, bags of potatoes and cabbages. Where we lived near...
I can remember what is now the Heartsease Estate being an airfield and there being all fields around where...
He crashed at Holwarth Farm, 1 mile south of Overmoigne, near Warmwell, Dorset returning to the airfield...
Home memories My father was the Civil Defence Controller for the Chepstow area; he had an office in the...
One of my mother's memories, which annoyed her for her lifetime was the fact that when she went to...
We had no bombing in Chester but the planes went over for the bombing of Liverpool and once they offloaded...
She grew up in Shildon, Co Durham, and received her secondary education at The Girls County School, Bishop...
One of my first memories of WW2 began on Sunday morning Dec 1st 1941, when the Post Office Telegraph boy...
She had to make do with two odd shoes. Spent 7/6 of her 10/- on ‘Digs’ and workmates helped her...
During that time my Mum had survived the many raids by Nazi bombers and Doodlebugs, Joyce had been involved...
It was around the time of Dunkirk and a policeman knocked on our door... The policeman said, 'Hello...
My Father must have been working on the night shift at British Celanese Leaving Mother to look after us.We...
Midland Red buses, which ran from Leicester Street in Walsall to Birmingham along Birmingham Road, were red...
My parents had been living in a flat in Cumberland Park and had been bombed out and found a flat in Larden...
We played all the big towns but my first debut was in Broadstairs followed by Brighton where my brother was...
Mackies Foundry was a Munitions Factory during the war and the little streets of’ two up two...
My father and mother spent the war years at the market town of Banbury in Oxfordshire. My father had a...
My father, Ernest Samuel Payne, was captured in Thessolonika Greece. We lived in Goldington, near Bedford,...
This was the start of a fantastic relationship for them both and Alice and Jim later became Mr and Mrs...
Because of the severe bombing I was evacuated to Guildford, Surrey where there was no bombing and as I was...
The first night of bombing in Norwich there were no guns for protection, but they then put one up at Nelson...
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