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War Memories 1939-45 - Mrs W Wright

I remember neighbours of St Davids Road Kingsthorpe gathered by their garden gates rather subdued when the...

My War: Pig Bags, Rationing, and D-Day

My earliest memories in the war are of him as an ARP warden in his tin helmet checking the blackout and...

One Child's War Part 2 A New House in War-time by Elizabeth Chapman (nee Goodwin)

Food rationing had now become compulsory and Mother, in common with every other British 鈥淢um鈥�,...

Growing up in County Fermanagh during the War Years.

During World War Two Edith Sheridan was a teenager in rural County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland on the...

The Second World War, through the Eyes of an Eleven-Year-Old Boy

Yours sincerely Deborah Devonshire The following is a transcript of a letter from Eric Oliver to the...

WWII Childhood Memories of Three Women in Newcastle

On May 4th, 2005, at Newcastle's Mary Magdalene Retirement Community, the 大象传媒 Unigroup met with a craft...

From Bullets To Buttons

My dad was with us , he had waked over the fields from Loscoe Miners Welfare, where he was the steward.We...

Goodbye Father, Hello Stranger

Also the butcher would sell or give away bones with quite a lot of meat on them... Lentil and meat bone...

My Name is Lisa

The Steppes were all around us and the battle was raging, the thunder of cannons could be heard every...

My War at School and at Home

During a raid on Bromley on the 16/17th April 1941, I remember laying awake in my bunk and seeing the house...

A Quiet War

One boy achieved hero status by going into the pulpit at church and shouting 'Heil Hitler'. He then...

Further Memories of an Irish Schoolgirl

Shortly after the outbreak of war my father's eldest brother, who lived in Wembley and worked in the...

The Winter Of 1944 - 1945: Childhood Memories of Amsterdam

Field kitchen May 9th or 10th, I do not exactly remember, the food of the soup kitchen was completely...

Rambling Reminiscences of WW2

We lived at the time Mum, Dad my elder sister and me in 2 rooms in Packington Street. It seemed prudent at...

Schooldays in the War

I also remember the night Bradford was bombed... My best friend Margaret Walker went but I stayed in...

1939-1945 Some Memories of a Teenage Schoolboy

We never had any bombs very near us although we sometimes heard them and the anti-aircraft guns firing from...

A Child's War

Blackout was declared which meant no more street lights. Vehicle lights were reduced to a slit and we all...

War memories: A Child in Chesterfield

I can't remember exactly what we had but mostly it was half a pound of: Sugar fats, meat, cheese,...

Life of a Retailer In Dunstable

Although the introduction of the Delco factory increased the population of Dunstable, the biggest increase...

'I Suppose They Think I'm Dead!'

I lived in the married quarters of Aldershot with my husband, Reg, who was a soldier... Reg was stationed...

Memories of when the bombs passed over.

My home town is Buxton in Derbyshire were I spent my formative years living with my Mum, Dad and sister...

Wartime in Widnes: My Memories

Wartime in Widnes, My Memories. My name was Muriel Coombs and I am one of five children, two girls and...

Staying Together: Family Life in Wartime Dudley

When Dr Doyle came and looked after Mum, Nan said, 鈥榳hat do I owe you? Mum or Nan would cook it with...

A Country Life For Me

We arrived in Bellingham, where all the pupils were housed, except my brother and I. We were taken over the...

Graham's School Memories during Wartime

I started at local Grammar School in September 1939 where an enthusiastic master taught PE and sport and...

Wartime Experiences: From the Suburbs of Sheffield to Bradwell

Until September 1939 I had lived in a pleasant tree lined road in the suburbs of Sheffield and had many...