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15 October 2014
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Wartime in Holywood

The Holywood waterworks at the time was quite small, enough to cope with the population, but all of a...

My two years in Undy

I was evacuated with everyone else from Buckland School to a little village called Undy in Mônshire,...

The Bombing of Lincoln, 1941

On the 8th May 1941 I was living at 31 Westwick Gardens in Lincoln, Lincolnshire in United Kingdom with my...

Cramped domestic accommodation in Bradford

Throughout our time in Bradford we lived with Mum's sister Hilda and her husband Jack, daughter Betty...

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"GEORGE BROWN'S WAR WITH THE MIDDLESEX REGIMENT"icon for Story with photo

George was a member of Much Wenlock Town Council for 30 years and served as Mayor in the year before the...

THE FRIENDSHIP THAT KNEW NO FRONTIERS

A Belfast Protestant's friendship during the Second World War with the nuns of an Irish convent outside...

Fuhrer's Speech

His rounds took him all over Chesterfield, and they all knew him as Fred Bargh, chimney sweep of Vincent...

A WAAF Radar Operator remembers RAF High Street, Darsham, Suffolk 1944-1945icon for Story with photo

Reading the article by Peggy Youell entitled ‘The lighter side — Life in Darsham’...

From Country To Country, They Lived Similar Lives

Doris and Virginia both came to England in 1961. Although Doris and Virginia were glad they didn't meet...

VE DAY

Now, Marion and I knew Rothesay well, it had a lovely dance hall, large and almost new, The Pavilion....

'Walter's War'

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.

A Tribute To A Belgian War Heroine: Marthe E. Janssen-Leyder: After the War. Marthe's funeral was held...

my aunts during the war

My next move was to Berwick on the Scottish boarders, where the people were very nice and I would have been...

MY TEENAGE MEMORIES

As for myself, the first two years were very exciting, lots of new boy friends from various parts of...

Bevin Boysicon for Story with photo

My dad , Frank Mallett, was a Bevin Boy during the war, called up to work in the coal mines... Dad suffers...

You Bloody Fool

On the day I took Jean home from hospital, my husband, Les, received his call-up papers and when Mum, who...

Our Wartime Visitors

My father was a Naval Family Welfare Officer with an office in the Naval Barracks. His lady welfare worker,...

The War,Family Life and Dad's bottom!

I would have been christened into the Catholic church had it not been for the local priest telling Dad that...

The Spy in Swindon? by Brian Timbrell

This was reported by the Swindon Evening Advertiser on the 8th May 1940 We never heard anything more of...

Fly Away Jack

Sometime before December 1942, Jack was home on leave and had said to his Dad that he thought he would take...

An Eventful Weekend

After securing the lid he took this precious little bundle and left it at the gatekeepers lodge at the...

Downpatrick Duties For An American Soldier

We had a circuit that began at the Gaol, went down English Street, up Irish Street, took in a water...

RAF Photo Squad 165icon for Story with photo

I am the daughter of William Tom Sparkes who joined up with the RAF soon after marrying Alice Fryer in...

A FAMILY TOGETHER

Grandpa is serving the Christmas pudding. Poultry of every kind is very hard to get hold of, rationing...

My Encounter with Japanese POWs

I used to watch the dogfights throught the window at the factory betwwen the RAF and Luftwaffe bombers......

My dad

My mother worked for Murrays shop in Brandon at the time and my grandmother when she found out he was alive...

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