Nan Hatton's family home was in Mountnorris, Co... An Australian Air Force member — she thinks he...
I was four years old when the Second World War broke out, and attended Wyvern Avenue Infants School in...
There was a knock on the door, and when I answered it there was a telegram boy, probably about 14 years...
My father was serving with the RAF, my Aunt's husbandwas in the Army and my unmarried Uncle John was at...
At Christmas we'd kill some of the birds for the Christmas dinner, my sisters and myself used to pluck...
Our next-door neighbour had to share our shelter because she only had a table to provide cover when the...
We all survived, yet my best friend Eddie Edwards, who lived just 6 doors away was killed along with his...
Dad was like a stranger to us all and I have to confess that given the chance to spoil me, he did!...
My husband, Ted, was working at the Cranes factory, working from eight at night until eight in the...
My grandparents kept a large public house called "Fultons" on Oxford Street, opposite the market at...
I remember girls who worked in the munitions factory - they all had yellow faces, from the sulphur, I...
So my brother's pram was a primitive affair but it did the job. My Mother would proudly take out my...
This picture was taken when Alan Woodward was on leave from the Royal Navy in 1942. His wife Irene is...
I remember the farmer's wife telling us to get under the kitchen table when the planes flew over and...
I remember seeing young evacuees waiting on the platform at the railway station, just like sweets in a...
We didn't like to go to the air raid shelter and leave him on his own, so we stayed in the house...
We want the King. I was taken to the gates of Buckingham Palace on the 8th May 1945 where a crowd gathered...
As father was the gamekeeper we lived in the keeper's cottage on Sherbourne hill. Father's petrol...
I was 5 years old and I remember the huge effort to blackout all the windows in the street where I lived......
Can anyone else remember their mother saying "sh!it that one of ours? I don't know how she could...
I was 4 and half years old when World War Two started.My first memory was the talk of men being 'called...
My Grandad in WW2 was a medical student at Great Ormand Street Hospital in London... My Granny was also a...
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