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My Wartime Memories of Bedford as a Schoolboy Part 2 - Bedford Modern School in wartime

Again I think it's quite illustrative that I remember one morning, it would be a Saturday morning, I...

Excerpts from a 'Memoir'

Hitler repeatedly declared that "Germany had no further territorial aims". Actually the policy of...

Childhood Memories of an Old Norfolkboy of WW2

Childhood memories of an old Norfolk boy of WW2 by Alan-Arthur I lived in the Village of Old Buckenham...

Primary schooldays WW2

Chelsfield was only a few miles from Biggin Hill which was a fighter defence air station guarding London....

Childhood Memories -Cox Family

My father had, however, anticipated the outbreak of war and insisted some weeks earlier that my mother...

Memories of WWII By: Daniel Banks, an English School Boy

We kept abreast of the news from the front by newspapers such as "News of the World"; "Daily...

My Childhood War

Next to the scullery was the 鈥榦uthouse鈥� which had a coal fired brick boiler for the washing of...

London in War Time

I do not remember our trip to Scotland to see Dad before he was taken away to the war in Algiers but...

My War - Chapter 1

Before too long Mrs Harley introduced me to her church, Saint Mary's, I don't think I had ever been...

Schoolboy at War

Our mum had travelled down to see us once, to make sure that we were being properly looked after, but when...

Childhood Memories

He said that he had heard Miss Williams tell his fostermother that she had received a letter from my...

WW2 Testimony, Childhood Experiences

He was particularly glad after the war to be kept on as a regular police officer, and even after normal...

Fred Cole Part 4: 57 Squadron 1944 and after

On the same raid I witnessed a bomb go straight through the wing of another Lancaster but it just kept on...

War in Kensington

My brother Paul, our friends and me used to collect shrapnel from the guns and bombs. I went with my...

War Baby in Germany

My grandfather was to pay very little maintenance to grandmother although he had an extremely well paid job...

The Depression and World War Two: Part 1: Childhood Memories

On Christmas Day Ma lifted the steamed pudding from the basin, untied the white cloth to reveal the dark,...

From Pillar to Post - Part 2

We saw a torch light and heard voices heading towards us and was jolly well relieved when mum climbed into...

13 Farthings - Chapter 2 part 1

Some men came along and cut down all the iron railings in front of the houses in Digby Road; Boy scouts...

Wartime Aberdeen

Germany had tried so hard to find the shipbuilding industry in Aberdeen, just like elsewhere, and on 12th...

Mimi - A Most Unpopular Dog

That dachshund or that German Sausage dog now target for hostile comments, e gobbets of spit - so much so...

Daddy's Going Away To Fight Hitler

I knew about nasty Mister Hitler, but was a little unsure what Daddy was going to do to him. Aunt Peggy, my...

Joan's War

Now that we had moved back to Tunstall I saw more of Pauline my dads younger sister and my cousins Michael...

The Story of Bevin's Babes: Chapter 3

COUSINS鈥� 鈥� CHRISTINE'S SUMMARY - Now living in America 鈥� she relates, after her birth...

Schoolday Memories of Wartime Years, Chapter 2

He used to ask me to deliver his "date requests" to the young ladies in the neighbourhood,...

98 Brighton Road

We were ordinary middle class of the period - father in his 40鈥檚 having served as a volunteer...

From Pillar to Post - Part 4

Some families were transferred straightaway to spare hop pickers huts at Cowhouse, Buriton only a few miles...