I was 12 years old and living in the Bloomfield area of Belfast when the war broke out. I remember thinking...
During this time Grandma Alice had the baby and Grandad lloyd swapped passes with another soldier and set...
My mother made for my sister and I 'Siren Suits'. Siren Suits, so named so that when a siren...
I remember they had a float with a band playing nice music and going round the island of Grenada collecting...
At The Hippodrome Putney, we started our final performance of the day, around 7-30pm in the evening, the...
My mother worked in Brighton where she did fire-watching, parachute packing and worked in an ammunition...
My 2 brothers were with a different family in Leicester, the Mosely's, and they loved it... Dad used to...
My father was serving in the army in Belgium, and he was injured and contracted T.B. He was then sent, in a...
My dad Jim Jennings, youngest of 11 children was in the Second Battalion Grenadier Guards at the outbreak...
The great British Restaurant must have been a life-saver for working mums' kids. Shrewsbury biscuits...
I recall that as children, we were allowed to have half a pint of milk a day to drink which cost a...
Donald Delves' War, Part 2 : Cousin Lost on HMS Glorious, and How I Came to Join the Army. My cousin,...
George and Maria came from Poland but never talked about the war years. George also ended up in England,...
I lived in the Cotswolds during the war, and the only time we ever got bombed was when German planes...
Other people seemed to have much more exciting lives - my best friend Scarlet from Lowestoft was still...
Another memory Dorothy has is when the air raid would go off they would go under the stairs because her...
Although its 65 years ago I still remember the telegram boy stopping me in the street and asking where to...
"The house in Cambridge Terrace was a two up / two down, my parents having one bedroom and my sister...
Then when Sheffield was bombed another bus was commandeered to get the workers to Sheffield....
However, after this had happened once or twice, most of the patients found it so nerve-racking with the...
My father was the Sergeant Mayor of the Home Guard in Crumpsall and my mother was the switchboard operator...
My young brother went to Bromesgrove, which is near Birmingham; he was brought home post-haste when the...
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