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Memories of School Days in Wickford in WW2

Unfortunately the shop had to close, and we moved up to number 8 Victoria avenue, a bungalow where we also...

A starry night in Swansea 1941 Part 2

Another Friday night in Swansea, my mother and I went down the hill on the little red bus to a dance in...

Mrs Saunders and Me

Just outside our station was a green grocer's run by an elderly lady, Mrs Saunders - Old Mother...

Re-Cycling During the War

The whole family who weren't ‘pig sitting’ scrounged on abandoned demolition sites for old...

The Mark of Zorro: Buzz Bombs and Near Misses in Ealing

Between me sleeping through separate blitzes and being excited out of bed by a maverick buzz bomb in very...

Growing Up during the War

Another plan was put into action whereby we, the older girls each had to take two younger children out of...

My Wartime Experiences

When I was about eight years old and things were getting worse, Mum and Dad took us down to Bournemouth,...

My Childhood during the War (Ferndale)

My Father visited many Countries Jerusalem,Beirut,Gaza and many more to many to mention.My mother was a...

My War Memories

My grannie bought special cord and my Uncle John would decorate the shells and fix them onto the cord to...

Working at the Co-op and Village Life: In Barugh Green, Barnsley

We had one day for weighing up the rations of butter, margarine and lard, sometimes 2 ounces of butter, 4...

Dorothy Fisher-Childhood memories

What I do remember is when the air raid sirens used to go and we were all tucked up nice and warm...

Childhood Memories: In Ipswich

These coupons which were a pound and a half a month.IE 1 e =a quarter of a pound 1 d = 2...

Through the Eyes of a Child: Biggin Hill, Radar and WW2 Food

The front door was blown off and shot up the hallway, the ceilings came down and the windows blown in....

Through the Eyes of an Ossett Girl

I was then a pupil at Spa Street Primary School down Baptist Lane, Spa Street, Ossett and one of my...

Frances Bush

I attended there until 1945, so after my higher school certificate, I went to teacher training college in...

Lily's Story

During the Siege of Stalingrad we had a carnival - we begged , borrowed and stole and collected £98.00...

Without Dad

In Wales, in a house on a hill near Mold, we had a clear view of the searchlights as they swept the...

A Quiet War

Rural Wharfedale was the next valley to the industrialised River Aire flowing through Leeds... My cousins...

Childhood Wartime Memories:In Luton

I well remember on one occasion waking up to find no Mum or Dad there and feeling very responsible for my...

Memories of World War II

I can still recall vivid images of George Lane STation ablaze after an air-raid as we travelled home on the...

Growing Up In The War Years

At age 7yrs I went to a Convent school ran entirely by French nuns who listened in to the free French radio...

Childhood in War Time Fishponds, Bristol

My earliest memories were of coming out of the infant school by the park in Manor Road and the siren...

Growing Up during the War

I carried a lamp, we all sang songs till the all clear went, if the siren went on a night we would...

World War 2

Priscilla's father was a special constable, her mother worked in a munitions factory and her brother...

Baby Days

Our warden couldn't find his helmet when the bombing started so my mother gave him the brass rose...

Childhood Memories at Guildford

My family lived in the North Lodge that had originally belonged to Langton Priory and part of our large...