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Valerie Parry (Lintern) & John Parry

Both John and Valerie remember - Dried egg which was delicious could make fantastic omelletes with chopped...

Eileen's War

On nights when the air-raid siren sounded my mother insisted we came downstairs fully dressed and went into...

Toys Games and Occupations

My uncles used to make me toys like dolls houses, monkeys or clown acrobats that swung between two sticks...

'A Banana A Day Will Keep Hitler Away'

When we were sent to the shop before the war we were able to take a torch with us to see our...

Broseley Guide Company

It was at the start of the Second World War when the Headquarters of The St John's Ambulance Brigade...

A Schoolboy's View of Food Rationing - Veg and Hot Puddings

Vegetables were not rationed and the supply of these was eased by many people digging up their back gardens...

Home Front

My father was employed in a ‘Reserved Occupation’, working for a company in Acton that made...

Memories of Life in Wartime Stockport by "Peasticks"

In case of an alert the spotter pulled a piece of string and a piece of cardboard flapped up and down on...

Making Do in Wartime Norwich

When they bombed and fired Norwich I went to stay with my mother because she had a cellar to shelter in. It...

Quality Street in Short Supply!

Mavis, " I thought that my father had been killed at one point as bombs had been dropped very near his...

My Grandparents War Experiences.

When war broke out my grandfather, Richard Elliott was 16, and he enlisted himself into the army, and was...

Memories of World War II

My father was in the Merchant Navy at that time, working on the Belfast to Heysham ferry “Duke of...

I Worked in the Post Office

I had a cousin in the Merchant Navy and he told me all about the ships that got bombed. There were two...

Helston during WW2

I lived in Helston, west Cornwall, the home of the Flora, or Floral Dance. As I recall, the weekly...

Little Snippets From Newcastle upon Tyne

Walking from work you saw planes very low, could actually see the pilots, he dropped the bombs, hitting the...

Wartime to a Child

I remember one when the four of us children rode in an army lorry full of paper with a big notice, "ALL...

War Life in Norwich

I was at home in Norwich with my two children during World War Two, while my husband, Cecil, was away with...

My Experience of War Work

We only had cold water taps, so a boiler was used and we would use a steel jug to fill the sink...

An Unusual Place to Store Food

My elder sister and I slept in a shed that was decorated and parked behind the caravan and my younger...

Young War Memories

I can remember workman arriving at our house and digging a trench accross our garden and next doors garden...

Tales from Childhood

You did anything you could in post war Wales to supplement your rations, the idea was we would sell the...

Working for the Ministry of Agriculture

I went to Bridport Grammar School in 1936 completed the five-year course and did o one year in the sixth...

Family Life in the War

My Mum made dinner, one Auntie looked after the children and the other Auntie sewed. Another Auntie was in...

Springbourne Ladies Remember (Betty & Moira)

Betty lived in Swansea during the War. After the War, Betty moved to Birmingham to work in the BSA factory....

Memories of World War Two

Everything was rationed; food, clothing and we had ration books with slips of paper for butter, cheese,...

Childhood in County Durham

We had for a week, 2oz bacon, 2oz butter, half an ounce of sugar, one fresh egg each or egg powder which...