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Make Do and Mend, Christmas and Readjusting

In fact my worst experience was with one of our own soldiers who had been injured and was recovering in the...

A Wartime Childhood

Left on her own in an uncertain London my mother returned to her Darlington home and lived until 1947 with...

Working for the Admiralty in Bath

When war broke out, Mum and her mother moved from Southhall, Middlesex, which used to be country and is now...

Lambert's War

My father served in the 8th Army REME and his rank as shown on his release certificate, was W/WOI I...

Living and Working in Kidderminster

My sister was weaving blankets in the local Carpet Factory and I was employed at 25 MU R.A.F. Hartlebury in...

Wartime Margate

There was quite a few children evacuated and when my dad came out of hosiptal and we had to move forward...

My Wartime Treasury of Memories

Dancing was a very popular pastime and Loughborough certainly had its share of venues, including the Town...

V.E. Day, Sirens and Maggie's Teeth

This women and her family heard the sirens and ran in for the neighbour next door and they said to her,...

A Canadian Boy's Account

This boy was 11 when war was declared and its immediate effect on us kids was a rush of patriotism, God...

I Like Butter !

One thing I do remember is I never ate butter all through the war. You see my stepfather would not eat...

Bombs, ARP & Home Guard, Part 2 War Work and Rationing

And I can remember going down, when we'd raised the money for HMS Bridport, to the ceremony outside the...

Life in Hemel Hempstead during the War

Outside of school hours, these children were housed in wooden huts at Pixies Hill. The next morning we...

Make do and Mend

Every lad in the village would have had trousers made by my mum, from the lower legs of his father's...

What Mum and Dad told Me after the War

One winter's night my dad ran into one with his car and my mother who was sitting in the front...

World War Two

Needing a chicken for Sunday lunch Mum didn't do a very good job of strangling the oldest bird and the...

My Memories of Wartime Coventry

The First Air Raids After we had been there about two years the first air raids on Coventry started on the...

Mother On the Home Front

I was living with my Mum at the top of an old-fashioned house in Birkenhead when I had my first real...

A Child of the War

My mum and dad picked me up and we got down into the dugout in our back garden as quickly as we...

My Memories from the 1939/45 War

Due to the number of large engineering works in Leeds, which would have been a prime target for enemy...

Sheena's Story

In Kirriemuir a community air-raid shelter was built in the centre of the town, but I was never in it. His...

Life as a Child in Silfield

Another bomb landed near Silfield Street on Mr and Mrs Bond's land. Some were taken to Tibenham and I...

Recollections of the War: Derbyshire

Their drone was very different to our bombers, and we could hear theirs come over Shirebrook, turn and go...

Wartime Revisited

The Home Front My dad Archie served in the Home Guard and was on duty in the Castlewellan area when Belfast...

Stockport Express Christmas 1945

The Stockport Council of Churches had organised Community Singing of Christmas Hymns and Carols in the...

Memories of WW2 from Shieldfield, Newcastle.

German bomber targets were the Tyne Bridges and factories, but they also hit churches hospitals and houses....

Kathleen Bean-Things I Remember

When the siren went, she used to come to our house because our cellar was bigger- it had an arch over and...