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Yes, so long As there is wrong to right, Wail of the weak against the strong, Or tyranny to fight; Long as...
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Later in the night air raid wardens came round saying they felt the whole area was unsafe as incendiary...
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The Canadian Red Cross sent baby clothes, I remember the first doodlebug on Wimbledon Common, and the...
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I am aware that Bradford was not a main target for enemy bombs, although the one time when a bomb hit the...
They then returned to open up their Kirriemuir house in Ogilvie's Close and remembers they first had 4...
This was the armoury which was built as a facility for the local Home Guard of which my uncle was C.O. It...
On the Saturday morning of the Battle of Britain we went to work at the Henry Hughes factory in Hainault...
We had a dressing-up trunk full of old beaded black shawls and rustling taffeta petticoats and we would...
Mum, my sister and I were standing by the wide-open bedroom window watching Ack-ack explosions and tracer...
We lived at my grandmothers, one night she said ‘Get up the Germans are bombing Derry. My uncle said...
The saltpetre was pushed into all the folds and holes where the bones had been removed, then the whole...
The offices, situated at St Katherine's Dock, were heavily bombed on the 12th May 1941 — many...
Without me knowing when she got off the train at Seven Kings station apparently Joyce went round to see my...
The only products that weren't short were the products of Jamaica like sugar and bananas and citrus...
My aunt, however, had been trained in the methods of food preservation and so, during the weeks before...
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