DAILY LIFE - washday, boiler, blue bag, starch. Mother had a couple of cast iron boilers, one about two...
The Emergency Hospital during the German Occupation of Guernsey...
One Christmas we had to have a Rabbit for dinner, but I was told it was chicken as they knew I wouldn't...
My Dad was in the army stationed on the Shetland Isles. One day at Sneinton Dale a German plane came over...
In about 1944, I was called up and billeted to Waddon near Croydon with a retired lady who lived in an...
About 1943, my father and mother, George and Jean Bodden, were publicans at The Duke of Wellington,...
My father was a miner and he called me 'Kitty' - he was lovely... There was Bill, Harry, Mick,...
Hilda and I had to marry within two months, otherwise she would have to return to Germany. They are both...
I didn't know this man but found out that his name was Corky. He said that he had met my dad on...
I met a very good friend, through the work I was doing who was French... My friend said to me, 鈥淚...
The people in the second world war did not want to speak much about their experiences, although I did pick...
As time went by, and the war continued, I remember having to carry a gas mask to school, and the sirens...
We used to keep chickens up the garden, many people did during the war, we could have fresh eggs so they...
He'd heard that a bomb had fallen into my aunt's road in Bedminster, so he bicycled straight over...
My mother's youngest sister Rose ,my Auntie Rosie was just a few years older than me... Even at my...
Mum, my brother and I then got on a train to Wooburn Green to meet mum's sister Dorothy, whom she...
My dad, like everyone else, made blackout blinds for the windows....
It was held at St John's Church in Kidderminster... The other ladies are Miss Hopkins on the left and...
My story about VE day, well lets see, I'd only been born fourteen minutes, and my mother christened me...
I remember standing outside the pub when an incendary bomb hit Freeman, Hardy and Willis. My father opened...
I was born in 1940. my husband was also born in Poland and he tells me that in one day more than...
In those days Trauma Counselling were words not even in our vocabulary. For her, the real-life feeling of...