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Thanksgiving

We were afraid he wouldn't come back, you see, Mum and I. Because he was a tool-fitter, he got sent...

A Young Mother in Tunbridge Wells

We were going to live in Greenwich but his Grammar School was evacuated to Tunbridge Wells, so we had to...

A man was peering through the window...

Father and I were in the kitchen, it was a half-basement, making a cup of tea. So she asked if he would...

Marmalade on the kippers, gravy on the rice pudding

As a sidelight to that story, my father-in-law, Herbert Sykes, who was just young enough to be called up...

'Visitors to my house'

Dyfred Street overlooked the Dry Dock which is part of Barry Dock. They had managed to escape from Belgium...

Collecting Herbs

This was an old blacksmith's house that my uncle had taken over and either side of the building there...

DUNKIRK - The Fighting Five

My father went out and found the cenotaph with his brother's name on it, for his mother was a widow and...

When we were Machine Gunned!

At the outbreak of war, my mother Violet Ashton had two small children, and my father was in the army away...

Nancy Burnham's wartime memories

We met a lady called Nancy Burnham who lived in London during the war... Before the war she lived in Wales...

War Work in Llandrindod Wells

I left Manchester to join the Land Army when I was 16, and never went back... I didn't want to do that...

Yeay the teachers are going to war!

With the rationing limiting food and other things, Ellen's family was forced to make the choice between...

That's how we crossed paths

I got married at St Barnabus church in Well Hall Road, Well Hall. I had three girls altogether in the end:...

German restrictions on everyday life in Guernsey

Mrs Stella Le Tissier interviewed by Margaret Le Cras 25/4/05. And when we were going to Chapel one Sunday...

A Family in War-time 1939-1945

Lena- employed by the Durham War Agricultural Executive concerned with the control and production of food...

The beginning of the German Occupation of Guernsey

Clarice Martel and Florence Mahy interviewed by John Gaisford 12/3/2005 Edited transcript of the video...

Memories from the Retirement Home

Wilf was out in the desert, possibly at Ben Ghazi, and guarding a border. Due to move the following day, he...

Meeting at Chilwell

John, meanwhile, joined the army in 1942 as a boy apprentice technician and was stationed at Arbourfield...

Concrete and Dancing

I was in my late teens living in Hull when my parents sent me to stay with relatives in Driffield as the...

Joy and Jubilation: The Day the Sun Came Out

My friend Ellen Young and I lived in Walton and we knew that something would be going on in town... We...

VE Day

My friend Ellen Young and I lived in Walton and we knew that something would be going on in town... We...

olives war

At the begging of the war Olive lived in eggham in surrey with her mother, father and all 6 of her brothers...

My Father's Story

Florence was born after World War II but she can remember stories that her father told her and she has read...

My Mother's War

The stories retold by my mother and grandmother about the bombing of Acton include the landmine blowing up...

First families to Germany after the war

The harbour was full of sunken German ships with their masts and funnels sticking out of the water... We...

Parachute Mine On The Odeon.

But when we got to the Odeon all the seats had gone so we had to go to the other cinema in...

War time Memories

On the farm worked a young woman and it was her duty to go to the Prisoner of War Camp at The...