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A Civilian’s Angle on the War Pt 2

We then had to go down to Chipping Camden to Northwick Park which was owned by a cousin of Churchill......

Strangers in Uniform

Military uniforms issued during this period featured from the top: a forage cap fore-and-aft and worn...

A Wartime Romance - Fifty Years On

We were married in Scarborough on October 6th 1945 and spent our honeymoon in a lovely hotel in Princes...

Burma Star

It was early evening time and in our little kitchen in Croydon I was in my pyjamas ready for bed, my...

Bicycle repairing under difficulties during the German Occupation

One morning, when I was working down at the Model Yacht Pond, that was when they bombed the harbour, they...

The resourcefulness of ordinary people

Fuel for the fire was hard to come by and Dad used to cycle down to Tynemouth to pick sea coal off...

Wartime dances at Rushton Hall, Northamtonshire

Whilst in the Land Army I attended parties and dances at Rushton Hall, near Kettering, Northamptonshire,...

MAKE DO AND MEND

Sometimes you would cut the top from a summer dress and use that as a top, but the majority of them had...

My life in memories

I also joined the WVS and the 'Kitbag Club'. This was down an alleyway near the Crown and Cushion...

CHILDHOOD IN GERMANY

We were bombed out of our house in Koln in 1943 and were evacuated to Turingen. We were very short of fuel...

Survival

I was a diabetic on insulin from early at birth... Well, mad or not I was the only diabetic to survive in...

Mother went first

I was still at school when I received a telegram cancelling my attendance at a Civil Service exam in...

Orphaned before I was born

After he got his GCEs my brother joined the Navy, following in dad's footsteps. In my case, because of...

My memories

We moved into Darlington and my husband was sent to work at Harperley Prisoner of War Camp.I was really...

An explosive party - VJ Day in Slough

You could see across to what is now Heathrow airport, and there were always searchlights, and tracer...

A FEW MEMORIES FROM JOYCE AND HER HUSBAND

Joyce was born in 1923, and at the age of 18 she decided to join the Land Army, and went to Cadburys...

A HARD ACT TO FOLLOW

During all this time Mum continued to work hard on the munitions, working overtime when possible to save up...

Nursing for the Royal Australian Army Nursing Service

MARGARET STREET ROYAL AUSTRALIAN ARMY NURSING SERVICE....

Memories of a Teenager During the War

I was fourteen when the war started and lived in Lowestoft with my dad, mum and brother Leslie who was two...

Wartime House Auction

It was a hamlet at Hayle — High Lanes and quite a number of properties belonging to an estate that...

B Company, 50th Battalion Wakefield - Yorkshire Home Guard

My father, Peter John Haskard Pickles, was only 7 years old at the time and was living in Normanton at his...

Village Life of a Farmer's Daughter

My parents, Fred and Vi Dance, with my two brothers, were on holiday on the Isle of Wight for the week...

Childhood in a Japanese Concentration Camp

It was Lady Louis Mountbatten that come to collect us and take us to Singapore. But this lady took me under...

A Healthy War in Sunderland

Dorothy Hodgson was born in 1936, Raymond Hodgson in 1934 and Anne Slater in 1931... Both Dorothy and Anne...

Tin Hat for W.C.

We supplied the lads with tea, coffee, sandwiches etc, and huge slices of bread pudding “just like...

The Telegram

and went on to say that my husband, Alec, who was serving in the RAF at Scampton, had been seriously...