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The Red Cross and GIs: Wartime Memories of Leamington Spa

We had very few cases of Enemy Activity in Leamington in comparison with places like Coventry and...

Memories of a Wartime Childhood, part 1

There was an unexploded bomb near the rear entrance to Ewell Court Park... Dad worked in the City of...

Ambulance Driver

Because of the heavy bombing of London, Coventry etc. we were considered a high risk area and if a major...

Margaret's Story - An Evacuee in Stockport

Cousin Edna had six children between eight and eighteen months with her and her widowed mother was also...

The Barkes Family's War

'Lady' my dog was always looking for George. George arrived home from the War at 9pm, I was...

My Boyhood Wartime Memories: Luton

Various ramshackle buildings were constructed with my reluctant help, to which over a period of time,...

Collaborative Article: Rationing

Wartime Memories, East Ham and Herts

My friend and I both worked for the insurance side of the business when I was not on audit and we girls...

Bournemouth, Bombs, and My Two Brothers

I remember sitting on the floor in the dining room of our rented house in Winton with my two brothers...

A Whitehaven 'Screen Lass' Remembers World War Two

Introduction This article has been submitted on behalf of Mrs Annie Ferguson from Whitehaven, Cumbria who...

The Homing Pigeon that Became Pigeon Pie

Fire watch groups were formed by local businesses to maintain watch for incendiary bombs on the roofs of...

Chemistry and My Recollections of my Father and the War

His materials were also crucial to the success of the bouncing bombs, designed by Barnes Wallis and used by...

Courting, the Blitz, Rationing - and Victory Celebrations - in Sheffield

Wedding day Anyhow, back to November 1941, it was a nice day on Saturday the 29th, and the wedding was...

War Work at Aylesford Paper Mill

I worked at Aylesford paper mill and we used to cycle to work. By then there were only the three of us;...

Malnutrition Milk

It was not, as might be imagined, more and better food, but a disgusting concoction known as...

A Child's War: The German Occupation of Guernsey

I told her 'yes' and informed her that during the war I had lived two hundred yards away from the...

FOOD for Thoughts

Well, with tinned food rationed for many years - and rarely seeing the tasty sardines - I ate three tins...

WW2 in Southern Ireland

Yes death did visit Wexford at the hands of the nazi regime.I am not sure of the year but on a Sunday...

Wartime Hardships: Rationing in London

We ate basic foods at the British Restaurants which we were told 'nourished the masses'. These...

Strange Things on the Dinner Table

Grated carrots replaced fruit in a Christmas or birthday cake, while a substitute almond paste was made...

Memoirs of the Occupation

The following day, dad had a milk delivery in Town and I went with him and he had given me strict orders...

Let's Walk Down Memory Lane

Aye, them six-inch squares of paper Cut from Daily Mail Hole poked in and string thro' Hung on a...

Clothes Rationing and Other Things

Dresses and coats cost 25 coupons each, costumes the same, shoes 20, blouse, shirts and jumpers 18,...

Its Rationed - Just how did we manage in Trowbridge?

There was still some meatsuch as pigs heads, trotters, tails, hearts, liver, etc., which mum would make up...

Just 48 Hours to Get Married

Muriel made all the arrangements for a marriage licence, wedding ring, and a car to take them to church. As...

A Teenager's Memories of Wartime Penang by Cheng Bee Parker

There were in the early occupation days, horrific tales of Japanese cruelty, of rape, which threw all...