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Memories of Being a Guide 1942-45

I can remember a guide rally either in Rickmansworth or Uxbridge where four of use who were patrol leaders...

Our Story

Jean was joined by other World War 2 veterans, who all gave their own input to the interview. Jean had lost...

Liquorice Root

She used to get orange juice fromm the Welfare... The 'Welfare' was in the Epworth Methodist...

Everyday in World War 2

Henry is 90 years old, and is a resident of the New Wycliffe Home for the Blind in Leicester. Henry also...

Rationing?

During the last war my mother was very fortunate to have a very good friend, Edith Ball who owned a grocery...

A Flagon of Soup

Each day brought a scramble for food to feed us all: by about eleven o'clock, mother would have his...

Life at Home

My father was a carpet weaver at MacKay's factory in Durham. Other members of the family were also...

Teenage View of the War

The rationing which from memory, ended up as 2oz of butter, water and margerine, 2oz of lard, quarter pound...

Purple Dye Took Well!

My dolls pram was very old and would be an antique if I had kept it. At home we didn't go to...

Air raids and sweet rations: a war-time childhood in Glasgow

During the day we'd scour the streets for bits of shrapnel which were our wartime 'souvenirs'....

Happy Reminiscences

Dad kept chickens to feed the family during the war... One day we sat down for our Sunday dinner, mother...

"Get That Line Straight Beryl!"

Mum met Dad during the war... When they were going out on a date, Mum would do her legs with gravy browning...

Irene's Story

I lived in Walker near the ship yards were there was lots of air raids but not as many as london had......

Life at home

My father was a carpet weaver at MacKay's factory in Durham. Other members of the family were also...

Childhood Memories of War

Mary Ferguson lived in Gailes, near Irvine during the war and remembers bombs trying to hit the trains...

Schoolboy Memories

We used to get free school meals because Dad was in the army. When bombing in Sheffield started we went in...

A Rare Treat: Sausages in Walthamstow

On one occasion, my mum had been able to get some sausages for our midday dinner... In the shelter we just...

Rationing and a Cow

Peggy Bradley — Rationing and a Cow Even after the war, in 1946, we were still rationed for various...

A Sauce Bottle for the Babby

Kathleen & Ivy came along to the Birmingham Back to Backs 1940s event to tell their story to a National...

Banana

Another boy brought a banana in, his father was in the navy and he had given it to him. The banana was...

The Tin Box

Mrs. Kathleen Nevin was 9 or 10 during the war and she shared these memories with me of her childhood in...

June Martins Memories of a Belfast Childhood during WW2 (garden vegetables and allotments)

Many of these were allocated at Stormont, in the grounds of the Parliament Buildings, where I spent many a...

Beer Rationing (extract from "Hard Times and Humour: Tasburgh 1939-1970")

.......the "Horse Shoes" public house was occupied by Charles Hales, early war work saw a change of...

June Martins Memories of a Belfast Childhood during WW2(Public Transport and Holidays)

As a family we holidayed in Portrush and went for a number of picnics to the seaside at Bangor, Donaghadee...

Evacuees and Stew!

We had evacuees staying with us for the whole of the war — the Grandmother and most of the children...

A Housewife Remembers

These recollections were written by her niece Mrs Dorothy Stenner. The most vivid memory my aunt has of...