George was a member of Much Wenlock Town Council for 30 years and served as Mayor in the year before the...
A Belfast Protestant's friendship during the Second World War with the nuns of an Irish convent outside...
His rounds took him all over Chesterfield, and they all knew him as Fred Bargh, chimney sweep of Vincent...
Reading the article by Peggy Youell entitled ‘The lighter side — Life in Darsham’...
Doris and Virginia both came to England in 1961. Although Doris and Virginia were glad they didn't meet...
Now, Marion and I knew Rothesay well, it had a lovely dance hall, large and almost new, The Pavilion....
When Walter had to go back to the navy my aunt Minnie moved into Walter's mothers house in Ashdale...
A Tribute To A Belgian War Heroine: Marthe E. Janssen-Leyder: After the War. Marthe's funeral was held...
My next move was to Berwick on the Scottish boarders, where the people were very nice and I would have been...
As for myself, the first two years were very exciting, lots of new boy friends from various parts of...
My dad , Frank Mallett, was a Bevin Boy during the war, called up to work in the coal mines... Dad suffers...
On the day I took Jean home from hospital, my husband, Les, received his call-up papers and when Mum, who...
My father was a Naval Family Welfare Officer with an office in the Naval Barracks. His lady welfare worker,...
I would have been christened into the Catholic church had it not been for the local priest telling Dad that...
This was reported by the Swindon Evening Advertiser on the 8th May 1940 We never heard anything more of...
Sometime before December 1942, Jack was home on leave and had said to his Dad that he thought he would take...
After securing the lid he took this precious little bundle and left it at the gatekeepers lodge at the...
We had a circuit that began at the Gaol, went down English Street, up Irish Street, took in a water...
I am the daughter of William Tom Sparkes who joined up with the RAF soon after marrying Alice Fryer in...
Grandpa is serving the Christmas pudding. Poultry of every kind is very hard to get hold of, rationing...
I used to watch the dogfights throught the window at the factory betwwen the RAF and Luftwaffe bombers......
My mother worked for Murrays shop in Brandon at the time and my grandmother when she found out he was alive...