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(Lona John) Cameo of Thoughts

I used to live with my grandparents, Mabel and Jack Bicknell in Fowler St, Taunton. My grandfather, Ernest...

Scouts & a Magistrate at Bicester

Jim Plater, a patrol leader, kept an eye on us as we cycled back to Bicester without lights....

my father and the navy

He did his training in Arbroath, Scotland, and has many funny stories to tell of his training... His...

Memories By Marjorie

My older brother was in the Army working on unexploded bombs. My other brother aged 18 was in Altringham...

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DAILY LIFE - washday, boiler, blue bag, starch.

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

The Emergency Hospital during the German Occupation of Guernsey...

I won't eat the Rabbit!

One Christmas we had to have a Rabbit for dinner, but I was told it was chicken as they knew I wouldn't...

Aron jumpers

My Dad was in the army stationed on the Shetland Isles. One day at Sneinton Dale a German plane came over...

Please God let it keep going

In about 1944, I was called up and billeted to Waddon near Croydon with a retired lady who lived in an...

The First Barrel鈥檚 For Grandma!

About 1943, my father and mother, George and Jean Bodden, were publicans at The Duke of Wellington,...

World War Two Memories

My father was a miner and he called me 'Kitty' - he was lovely... There was Bill, Harry, Mick,...

Marrying a German girl

Hilda and I had to marry within two months, otherwise she would have to return to Germany. They are both...

My dad

I didn't know this man but found out that his name was Corky. He said that he had met my dad on...

SHAKING HANDS WITH AN ORANG-UTAN

I met a very good friend, through the work I was doing who was French... My friend said to me, 鈥淚...

Stories from the war

The people in the second world war did not want to speak much about their experiences, although I did pick...

Wartime Memories

As time went by, and the war continued, I remember having to carry a gas mask to school, and the sirens...

Chickens to Ducks in One Night.

We used to keep chickens up the garden, many people did during the war, we could have fresh eggs so they...

Two Generations Gone in Two Months

He'd heard that a bomb had fallen into my aunt's road in Bedminster, so he bicycled straight over...

Disappearing Auntie

My mother's youngest sister Rose ,my Auntie Rosie was just a few years older than me... Even at my...

Bad News

Mum, my brother and I then got on a train to Wooburn Green to meet mum's sister Dorothy, whom she...

Childhood Memories Of Life In Wartime

My dad, like everyone else, made blackout blinds for the windows....

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It was held at St John's Church in Kidderminster... The other ladies are Miss Hopkins on the left and...

Born on VE Day

My story about VE day, well lets see, I'd only been born fourteen minutes, and my mother christened me...

Our Pub during the War

I remember standing outside the pub when an incendary bomb hit Freeman, Hardy and Willis. My father opened...

Poland in the war

I was born in 1940. my husband was also born in Poland and he tells me that in one day more than...

TRAUMA, WHAT TRAUMA?

In those days Trauma Counselling were words not even in our vocabulary. For her, the real-life feeling of...

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