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15 October 2014
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Escape from China (Part 1) Dangerous times ahead

Nursing Memories

Unfortunately, he was drowned during the war and I wanted to do something different so, when I saw an...

Land Girl Peggyicon for Story with photo

Peggy was now without work, so she decided with two friends Mavis Walker and Barbara Parker to join the...

War babies 1942-1944

In 1942 my mum's brother married the girl he met in Dover at a church in Colchester. Mum described my...

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It's Under the Counter!!

Before WW2 broke out I worked as a Comptometer Operator at Darlington's Co-operative Society's head...

"KEEPING THE HOME FIRES BURNING" (Wartime in Lancashire)icon for Story with photo

Phil was always reminding Muriel that she wet his trousers outside the Tower of London. Muriel's...

MY WARTIME EXPERIENCE

My husband and I went to the same school and when the war came he went into the Navy and his ship...

Post-war friendships from War-time contacts

We got to know Theo's family — there's a photo I must show you after, what I call my German...

Passionate Leave

Harry was a pianist and he used to go into all the French pubs and play, and all of his friends got...

After the War was over: letters from my father

He managed to get out of occupied Prague in 1938 and went to Paris where he worked as a doctor for the...

A Girl Grows Up in War Yearsicon for Story with photo

Whilst there I used to go to the forces clubs, one in particular was the Stage Door Canteen Club for...

Harry Cowley

Born in 1890 in Brighton Sussex Harry Cowley recounts the society he lived in around and during the time of...

Young love one day,Singapore the next.icon for Story with photo

Memories of VE Day

There were many shapes in plasters: legs, arms, torso and all bandages lovely and clean. As the...

"AFTER THE TURMOIL OF WAR"icon for Story with photo

In 2000 my story as a QA Sister in India was printed in the local paper the "Shropshire Star" and...

An Inspiring Storyicon for Story with photo

One that he had been killed at a place called Bon-Rapeux, a little crossroads, and the man who buried him...

To Daddy with loveicon for Story with photo

After this letters began arriving, some with pictures from the prison camps, one signed to my sister and I...

An Office Worker's Storyicon for Story with photo

January 22rd: Went to Dorothy's with Harold and Les... Met and fell in love with Harold, met Les, Wilf...

Just a Country Girl

It was 1939, when I was working as a Ladies Maid to Admiral Maddons daughter, who lived in Forrest Road,...

Tribute to my Mother, War Time Mum

Mum struggling to push a huge pram with two children inside, Margaret aged three years and Bessie just nine...

Wartime Weddingsicon for Story with photo

A friend then covered the nightdresses with the muslin, which she made into overdresses, and hid the joins...

Harrowing Experiences

I had no insight into the pain I would cause my family members by asking my Uncle to speak to you about...

Longstone Local History Group - `There were exercises on the moor' Home defence remembered

Longstone Local History Group - `There were exercises on the moor' Home defence remembered by Ernie...

Mum's war on the home front

As Mum had no coal in the house and Dad was due home on leave, the lady of the house gave her...

Tall Americanicon for Story with photo

I wrote to the Beaver Falls local paper… with my story, some pictures and a request that they put a...

The Story of Biddy Burgum (B. 14th August 1927)

Bombing started in Birmingham and then Biddy went to Coalville. From 1941-1945 while Biddy was in...

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