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16) Little Nurse

Answer this little nurse and you'll get sixpence and an apple鈥�, and so if you answered that one...

Memories of a six year old

There were English boys camped in Bell Tents out at the front of the house and the German prison camp at...

One thing leads to another...

Nearly every Sunday as a child, in that limbo time after childrens' hour and Sunday Night at the London...

Falling asleep in their food

Unfortunately, the town hall was just a stone's throw away, and the big clock chimed every quarter of...

Memories of a WAAF girl from Winnersh

I was then posted to Ottery St Mary women's camp on sentry duty had a wooden baron and whistle if the...

Wartime holiday on the Isle of Man

I was born in 1933 and lived midway between Wrexham and Chester but my grandparents lived in Erin on the...

My Brave Grandad

I am very proud of my Grandad and just the other day he showed me the medals he retrived for being a...

Working at the Chemist

I was working at the chemist so I was able to stay there during the war....

SNAPSHOT OF LIFE IN WW2

She said the second he turned into the street everyone would be on their nerves until the telegram boy had...

Working at the GPO and Getting Married

We went to the Odeon Cinema on New Street in Birmingham. There was the West End 鈥� a cinema and a...

Memories Of A Childhood In Luton

I was living on Bolton Road in Luton, when the landmine struck the bus depot on Park Street. At the end of...

Hairdresser for the troops

There were soldiers billeted all over Lanchester in the Chapel Hall, the Co-op Hall and Green Croft Hall....

broken family

In the kitchen was a recess bed ,or as we called it 'the hole in the wall bed'.My Dad and my Uncle...

Marjorie Jelinek's Story

I left school early, as we did, many of us, in those days, with the wish to join something I would have...

LIFE BY THE COAL YARD DURING THE WAR

The hospital train used to pull into the coal yard station carrying stretcher cases and walking wounded...

My Wartime Recollections concerning the Severn Valley Railway

After our reception at the Alma Hotel in Brierley Hill the taxi took us to Kidderminster Station as the...

An Afternoon of Death in Chesterton Part 2

Casualties of the bombing鈥� Margaret Frost... Wife and Son of Mr J Smallman from Essex....

Upstairs Downstairs Life

During the war I was a scullery maid and it was all stone flags, the passages and everything I used to have...

Rationing without a husband

We were married 6 weeks before he was sent to Rufford park barracks 鈥� I used to bike to see him, it...

Holidays at Home

My father was a comedian and an impressionist,my mother was a singer and dancer as was my sister, and I...

Longstone Local History Group - One family's war Part 2

Longstone was a village which sheltered evacuees and was comparatively unaffected by air attack, although...

Now Is The Time (Wrenbury Remembers P.1)

Some may question the term 'slavery' and object that all it would have meant was that a German...

All of us

Worse than hell at times So many don't realise Spending a well-earned penny Friends together A real...

Names in a hat

Worse than hell at times So many don't realise Spending a well-earned penny Friends together A real...

Belfast Blitz - Cranburn Street

There was Aunt Chrissie, Aunt Alice, Uncle Paul, who was an invalid and my dad, Jerry, who had been born in...

WHY MY DAD VOLUNTEERED FOR THE RAF AT 40

He became a Physical Training Instructor with the RAF although he could have gone into provisions because...