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Memories of Tyne and Wear: Nursing Through Air Raids and Rationing

I was employed as a Junior Nurse at the time of World War II and later progressed on to become a staff...

Reminiscences

I was playing cowboys and indians and took a flying leap over the back of the settee and landed both feet...

Childhood Memories of WW2 in Hinckley.

We had lots of evacuees here, from London, Coventry, Swansea, Birmingham, Scotland and other places... My...

Childhood Memories

Eventually rations books with coupons for obtaining food were issued and you registered with a grocer or...

Book Written At School In 1941.....Part Seven - The Daily Round

There is that special guest towel, and a tablet of toilet soap to be put in the bath-room, for the guest to...

Evacuation No.2 From 1 Danes Place, Bow, London

I do not remember the earlier years of the War but my parents have told me that in late 1939 my mother,...

Farm -Life in War-Time

There was also a ‘Fido’ there, this was a lot of oil drums in a field, these were lit to...

On Humber Bank

The area I lived in, Barton, was a comparatively small town but across the river was a larger town, Hove,...

The One Banana Banquet

With that the sailor placed his small case on the ground, reached behind him and pulled a banana off the...

Keith and Fran Slade's War Time Childhood Experience

I was born in Fishponds in 1937, my father went off to London and repaired Bomb damage to properties we...

Wartime Memories - Part Six

Before I left Ormskirk, I was in the cinema there and one evening a bomb was dropped nearby. The war with...

At School in Wartime

Anyone who had a garden dug up their flower beds and lawns in order to grow as much as possible for their...

A Norfolk Village War

I was nineteen years old in the year that war broke out and I was living with my parents, Henrietta and...

Ireland, North and South - Rationing

Tea and butter, 2 ounces a week of butter up north. You got 2 ounces of butter and 2 ounces of sugar...

Childhood Memories in Woolwich

One abiding caution that remains with me is the empathic instruction not to pick up sweets from there...

When Dad was in the Jamaica Home Guard

The girls from Jamaica got more schooling than the boys at this time... So it was left to the younger boys...

Memories of World War Two and Evacuation to Teignmouth, Devon

I was eight years old when the war started and, living in Plymouth, a Dockyard town, we were destined to be...

Milly Harris' War Experiences

Milly's husband also helped on the D Day Landings, cleaning up e.t.c. Milly remembers being very scared...

war experiences

At night we made a bed behind the piano or went up to the school shelters A tramp joined us and kept...

Monica Hawley -My War

It was a great strain driving at night as their were no streetlights and vehicles had only a tiny cross of...

The War Years in Willington

We arrived in London on the night of September 2nd to a total blackout and had to make our way to...

Living and Working in Bridport During the War Years

This system - using coupons as money - limited the amount of stock you could carry... Tanks and lorries...

War Time Memories of a Schoolgirl

Plots of land were taken over to grow vegetables, although the Merchant Navy saw to it that we had food......

Christmas in wartime

The pie, made from Anglo-American cooperation, was to be Christmas Eve supper for the entire family. Mum,...

Childhood Birmingham

You were either in the forces or working in the armaments in factories, or the Land Army or Nursing. My...

And So War Began..

This was inveneted by MP Sir John Anderson, the Home Secretary, and became known as an Anderson shelter......