The Carter family lived in Blackheath Colchester 1937 -1960....
Emma comes from a Gypsy Traveller family and has been living on the West Meadows Traveller site in Ipswich...
This is my dad sitting at the controls of a spitfire as far as far as I remember, on the apron at...
Mother used to say" don't go up the entry with a boy". People who where pregnant were treated...
The Lady of the house was crying out for my Grannie, calling 'my leg, my leg!'.. In fact, she had...
You could not buy such things as pram toys, so my mother made some little woollen men to hang on my baby...
My father William & his brother Gilbert were in the air force... Gilbert was a flight Lt. & was...
My Uncle Denis had a farm. quite a big one with cows, sheep, pigs and horses. the horses were lovely,...
My Mother and I were the only remaining survivors of the Raid on 29 Hogarth Street, Duncairn Gardens, my...
I was born on 5 December 1920 in the village as it was then of Longridge, and i married Jack in 1942....
I remember the Germans once over flew the city and dropped incendiaries on a large hill known locally as...
A particular thing that I remember about the mask was that the children's ones had a little orange flap...
As told by Esther Berman. There was a vicar's daughter: guess what she did: she had a baby....
My Grandmother, Mrs Ann Mansfield and her three children went down to their air-raid shelter in the evening...
She gathered up what food she could find, including some precious custard powder and some prunes and she...
We bought a Spitfire named ‘Hadleigh’ but unfortunately it only flew a few sorties before it...
Age 18 had to join the forces or work where sent, so worked in chemical factory all day and did fire...
During an air raid my mother had forgotten to take something to the shelter so she asked my brother and I...
Slowly, he untied the string, and carefully removed the brown paper to reveal a large bunch of bananas....
I was an air raid warden in my spare time my husband was a bulder so he was repairing air-raid shelters....
My Dad was aged 30 when war broke out and after initial training was sent to Malta where he was a Royal...
Aircrash in North Bedfordshire...
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