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War Pensioner's Son

During a visit by my parents to my wife and family here in Lincolnshire we were passing through the...

How my mother and father met in WW2

He was sent all over England to different camps such as Rissington, Manchester, Tangmere, Croydon and...

World War II Songs

Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey....

A Policeman’s Wartime Wedding

Mum and Dad set up home in the village Police House at 154 Bedlars Green, Great Hallingbury. They soon...

The Beckford Family’s Story

Dad was at work at Brighton General Hospital, repairing shoes for the inmates of the workhouse, when our...

From School to the Royal Engineers

Some of the places we were employed at were Methley Hall Estate which belonged to the Earl of Mexborough,...

Eastend Memorys

Raymond Davison and George Prince have kindly shared their memories of World War II with me... I would just...

Mabel's Friends

Mabel was friends with several Banbow work girls, based in a factory making Lancaster bombers. When Mabel...

"Mum's War effort in the birth of National Savings"

In 1939 a lady came to our parents house, Newlyn Drive, Western Boulevard, Nottingham to ask if anyone...

Living through the war at 11 in Blucher

During World War Two I was living in Newcastle Upon Tyne as I do now... I stayed with my grandparents in...

A Free-State Franciscan in the RAF

I'm a member of the Franciscan order here in the south of Ireland. Based in Waterford, and I'm a...

Bringing up Baby alone in Acton

It missed the bridge it was aiming at in Acton Lane and didn't stop the railway. I had another baby, a...

World WarII 1939-1945

During 1939, before World War II had started my dad, Orlando Harry Tomalin joined the Royal Air Force at...

The Bridges Family

Mum gave up our little cottage and the four of us, furniture and all, moved in with my grandparents and...

Lord Haw Haw

The couple's story has recently been retold by journalist Nigel Farndale, who ploughed through a mass...

Toddler in Scunthorpe

My first memory of the second world war, although I was too young to realise that is what it was, was going...

Wartime Evacuation To U.S.A. 1940-45

Our evacuation was organised by The America Committee for the Evacuation of Children and was known as...

A Childhood Behind the Wire

Once in operation, at the end of each school day our teacher, Miss Clague would escort us to the crossroads...

Nellie's Naffi Story!

As another job Nellie worked in a factory creating detinators for shells but luckily only did this for a...

A Delivery Driver’s War in Portsmouth

Rose had a daily route in and around Portsmouth... Rose remembers driving around some country lanes just...

The Second World War was the Reason I was Born

My mum Leontine or Tina as my dad called her lived with her mum and dad who ran "Café Pilgrim"...

Memories from Gwen Hayton (Bayley) part 3

We were there one night saying all the things we could do, showing how good and clever we all were, and...

A Young Teacher's Wartime Memories

I was also writing to another friend, Joe and he went out to Cairo, N Africa. I married Joe in July 1945...

Memories of Phyllis Rowe of Highertown, Truro (2)

When I told you that I was helping at the station with soldiers after Dunkirk, someone said to me that they...

MY BOYHOOD WAR

After the war a Japanese prisoner advertised for anybody wanting to know about my Uncle, Corporal Alexander...

Lillie Goodall's War

I learnt French at Deans — from a man called Michael O’ Sullivan who had been in France in the...