NEAR Croke Park where the Black and Tans opened fire of the footballers and spectators killing and injuring...
Another friend, a medical orderly, obtained Willie's address and I wrote to his parents telling of my...
And — as I said at the beginning of the Occupation I was supposed to take the exam, I didn't, I...
Mum was a weaver and worked long hours, I went to be looked after by a family called the Holmes’,...
I had married Ron Murrell after meeting him at the Dorothy Ballroom in Cambridge on New Years Eve... After...
My mother sister and myself had a wonderful afternoon — very nostalgic, a little tearful-...
My Dad, like many Ex-servicemen was unemployed for some time, before getting a job at Fort Dunlop, which my...
The Russians were closing in and all the bridges had been bombed over the River Elbe. I never went back...
When my sister was born, in 1935, we moved into a brand new council bungalow, at Avon Road, South Stanley,...
The family met together with their offspring to dedicate the old Cemetery of the Family von Thadden in...
His lads were William, Arthur, John, Harold, Albert, Wilfred, James, Fred and Frank. Between the years 1940...
We had an evacuee - a little boy who wet the bed - but he didn't stay long and then we had...
My Mom was a housewife, my Dad a bus driver and my sister, Pamela, and we all lived in a semi in...
I was working at the Izal paper factory, based at Newton Chambers Industrial Estate in Chapeltown...
Going back again to when I was ten years old, I can recall Alfie and I strolling along Plymouth Hoe with my...
Of the Arle men who gave up their spare time to be Wardens or Home Guards, we know of Mr Raechell, Mr...
Within sight and just a few mins. walk away from them. and Stefon, a lonely sole, was not very happy with...
I lived in the district of Wolyn in Poland on a farm with my parents and my five brothers and sisters. My...
And we met lots of friends, stood by the harbour, and on the harbour bed, it was low tide, there was an...
When her father died they came to Barnard Castle to live and her Mum went out to work to keep Irene and...
My family got lots of fruit and vegetables and meat thanks to Granddad and Mum! Mum and Dad didn't see...
Evelyn's next door neighbour worked at Southall's in Birmingham and there was a job going in the...