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15 October 2014
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The Best Forgotten Years of My Life

That butcher's basket was very heavy to carry from the shop onto a bus and then walk in Halifax to the...

Life as a Young Mother

The coal was 1/6d per hundredweight. My mum could put milk money out on the window ledge and have no fear...

Five Guernsey sisters in the ATS

There we met a member of the A.T.S., as we did not know anyone in England, we determined to join the...

"WARTIME IN BIRMINGHAM"

My eldest sister Lily died in 1942; my second sister Stella worked in the basement of the Cadbury's...

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Neutral Ireland

NEAR Croke Park where the Black and Tans opened fire of the footballers and spectators killing and injuring...

A strange encounter

Another friend, a medical orderly, obtained Willie's address and I wrote to his parents telling of my...

A Stolen Bicycle and its recovery

And — as I said at the beginning of the Occupation I was supposed to take the exam, I didn't, I...

Tom Norris' Story

Mum was a weaver and worked long hours, I went to be looked after by a family called the Holmes’,...

Once In a Lifetime; A Little Boy Lost

I had married Ron Murrell after meeting him at the Dorothy Ballroom in Cambridge on New Years Eve... After...

My War time memory

My mother sister and myself had a wonderful afternoon — very nostalgic, a little tearful-...

Memories of One Birmingham Family

My Dad, like many Ex-servicemen was unemployed for some time, before getting a job at Fort Dunlop, which my...

Anna's War

The Russians were closing in and all the bridges had been bombed over the River Elbe. I never went back...

PRE-SCHOOL LIFE

When my sister was born, in 1935, we moved into a brand new council bungalow, at Avon Road, South Stanley,...

The von Thadden Family in Pomerania (part ten)

The family met together with their offspring to dedicate the old Cemetery of the Family von Thadden in...

Albert Findlow-A Family At War.

His lads were William, Arthur, John, Harold, Albert, Wilfred, James, Fred and Frank. Between the years 1940...

Alice Seed's War

We had an evacuee - a little boy who wet the bed - but he didn't stay long and then we had...

Saying our goodbyes to the family (including the cat)

My Mom was a housewife, my Dad a bus driver and my sister, Pamela, and we all lived in a semi in...

hms ramillies

I was working at the Izal paper factory, based at Newton Chambers Industrial Estate in Chapeltown...

Alfie

Going back again to when I was ten years old, I can recall Alfie and I strolling along Plymouth Hoe with my...

The Day War Broke Out and Beyond

Of the Arle men who gave up their spare time to be Wardens or Home Guards, we know of Mr Raechell, Mr...

STEFON SWERGE'S WW2 :- A Poleicon for Story with photo

Within sight and just a few mins. walk away from them. and Stefon, a lonely sole, was not very happy with...

Maria Dejnowski's Journey from Poland to England

I lived in the district of Wolyn in Poland on a farm with my parents and my five brothers and sisters. My...

American friendship results from advertisement for rubber pants.

And we met lots of friends, stood by the harbour, and on the harbour bed, it was low tide, there was an...

I was in the Civil Nursing Reserve!icon for Story with photo

When her father died they came to Barnard Castle to live and her Mum went out to work to keep Irene and...

My Granddad thought he'd arrested a spy!

My family got lots of fruit and vegetables and meat thanks to Granddad and Mum! Mum and Dad didn't see...

A cosy distraction from the War

Evelyn's next door neighbour worked at Southall's in Birmingham and there was a job going in the...

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