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Mill Hill 41-45

In 1944 during the doodlebug raids I cycled to school with my friend Audrey. I had a sudden thought that we...

Rationing and Bananas

I could only remember the sign on a fruiter's window which said 'A Hand of Yellow Banana's-...

Ireland, North and South 鈥� Black Market

I couldn't get a job because I was from the south of Ireland....

Buxton in the War

There was only one flying bomb in Buxton. I remember that after the war there were still rows and rows of...

Rationing

You got your coupons from the War Office. I used to work at Meldrums in George Street making officer...

Joan Lewis' Story

We used to go to some Common Land called the Westwood and watch the searchlights criss crossing the sky. On...

Anzio Telegram

My strongest memory is of the day my aunt received a telegram concerning her eldest son who was killed at...

Did I tell you about? Wartime Pastry Making

One Christmas, We, the family that is thought that we had cracked it when one member of the family came...

Many War Time Memories

I remember one Friday morning, my brother came in saying 鈥漝on't let Mum out, don't let Mum...

Bananas, Oranges & V.E. Day

My Name is Joyce Raper and in 1942 was a thirteen year old living in Sheriff Hill, a suburb of...

Memories of World War 2

Food was rationed but babies were healthy, fed on cod liver oil and orange juice. ".. Entertainers,...

Evacuated to Retford by Eddie Andrews

I went to stay with a lady called Mrs. Chambers, who was very formidable, at Moorgate Retford... Retford...

Surviving Rationing

Meat was a real luxury at this time so we ate mainly spam, sausages and scrag ends at home. Every weekend...

Book Written At School In 1941.....Part Eight - How To Put On A Print Patch

Jack, then fold back the garment and sew on the patch... Blanket stitch together the newly cut edge of the...

Rationing

You had coupons for things like butter, bacon, sugar, meat, jam and biscuits and tinned fruit. You could...

Food Shortages

But I do remember making a Christmas cake one year - only I had to use normal sugar instead of icing sugar...

Book Written At School In 1941....Part Six - Lend To Defend

Be a self supporting man, Help your country all you can, Dig, Dig, Dig, for victory, And win this war...

A Wartime Bakery

I remember that the Americans from Raydon used to use my grandfather's bakery to make their dough when...

Make do and Mend

We lived in the Country, near Whitstable right on the South East Coast and had seen much activity in the...

My Dual Contribution to the War Effort

I do hope they had a quality control programme in place, or some poor soldier was going to get very cold if...

Rationing Meant Trying All Sorts of Things

The war to me as a child meant that food was always a problem I would queue for hours in food queues...

Memories collected from Bullenshaw Day Centre, Hemsworth, West Yorks

Madam Rosoval from America fetched wedding gowns... Wrote to him telling him that the washer had broken...

Our Experiences in the Land Army

I was in the Land Army, one of the first women in Belford....

Evacuation to Worcestershire

After living for a short while at two unsatisfactory addresses as an evacuee from my suburban Birmingham...

A War Child in Bristol

This happened everytime that the air raid siren sounded and I can remember my mother holding me tight when...

Keeping the Home Fire Burning

Our driver spotting this very large 'nob' of coal lying at the trackside decided he had a better...