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Childhood Memories

These books entitled you to a certain amount of meat, eggs, fats, cheese, bacon, sugar and tea... The...

A Schoolboy's Memories of Wartime Wythenshawe by Alan Riste

The Home Guard was originally Local Defence Volunteers, but we thought of them as "Look, Duck and...

Springbourne Ladies Remember (Doreen & Jean)

At the Corn Exchange in the town, Doreen and her brother were the last two children to be chosen. Doreen...

Jean's Memories of Growing Up

During the war we had German prisoner's at Arbury Hall who volunteered to rebuild the church totally....

Rationing and Markeaton Park

I lived with my mum, Ellen Tomlinson, dad Edward and sister Marjorie and brother Gordon. Markeaton Park was...

We had fish in our bath - by Mike Kimber

Although I now live in Newcastle upon Tyne, I was born and brought up in Southampton, on the South Coast of...

Eating Out at the Civic.

The civic restaurant was opened in the town hall in Worcester to get people to eat proper balanced meals...

Sweet Rationing

After Mick and I were rejected as an inconvenience by Mrs Guy,I was passed on to a Mr and Mrs Parker of...

My Grandma's Memories of the War

My Grandmother lived in Hitchin, in Hertfordshire during World War two. Hitchin was a small town and it...

Childhood in Kent

I was seven years old, school was already closed and I was in the back with dad and mum doing a bit...

My Father's Pig

One morning during surgery he received a telephone call from a pig farmer patient, who asked him to call as...

When I Was Your Age....

They also wore trousers and turbans and utility clothes replaced pretty frocks and hats... Also, although...

The Banana

On one of these occasions, probably during 1944, they came back from the pub very excited and we heard that...

Rationing and Food Shortages

I remember the nightmare of the Welfare food office where my mother sent me for bottles of concentrated...

Civilian Life Through World War 2

Molly Maughn was in her early 20's when it all started, World War 2... Molly admitted it wasn't all...

Memories of Our Shop and the Rations

The land for the streets off Main Street at Wombwell was given as charity for 1 guinea. The streets were...

Salvage

These included the Victorian cast iron gates and railings from the front of the Edward Street...

Darton War Memories

Going to school between Darton and Barnsley — buses scarce, unreliable and overcrowded. Lighting was...

Growing Food on the Home Front

To combat food shortages farmers were encouraged to plough up more and in order to grow more corn and...

Never going hungry

Mrs Roberts our neghbour was a Diabetic so she gave her sugar coupons to Mum in exchange for fresh eggs...

James Nash - A Tale of my Small Minimal War Contribution

When I was living with the woman at the pub, myself and the lady and another evacuee were doing a stage...

Life for Evacuees in WW2

Dorothy's family ran the New Inns pub in Madeley, Shropshire and because they had plenty of space there...

Mars Bars and Silk Knickers

I also remember the German POW's, based at Stoughton, they laid the concrete bases for the prefabs on...

War Time Bride

My fiancé was serving in France with the BEF in 1939; he came home to be married on May 4th 1940... In...

from school to university

She went to school in the South Kirk vestry to be taught Latin and French by Peter Watson, as Webster's...

War-time Memories, Reading

My sister and I slept in a bunk bed in the pantry with my brother on a small bed by the sink....