spam & powdered eggs...
This is my mother's National Savings Card, you collected sixpence stamps....
Motor Fuel Ration Book...
My sister and I were born at Crailing, a small village between Jedburgh and Kelso. Away from parents and...
FOOD ON POINTS: Sold by weight: Sold per tin: Rice 8; Sardines 2; Sultanas 8; Skimmed Milk 5; Currants 16;...
Another of my mum's strict standards was that the front step had to be cleaned and rubbed with donkey...
We had very few cases of Enemy Activity in Leamington in comparison with places like Coventry and...
Mrs Marion Carrington originally wrote the story of her war years for her family. Marion's story...
At the beginning of the war the Girl Guides were asked to do voluntary work at the Town Hall when the...
Those houses were built for soldiers after the battle of Messines in WW1 That's where the only bombs...
His materials were also crucial to the success of the bouncing bombs, designed by Barnes Wallis and used by...
I came to Derry from Ardara in Donegal 1940-1, to be correct... And that's how we settled down in...
And he worked in various … he worked in the transport, and Mr McDonald, and Englishman, he had a...
Of course, with typical Derry humour there's jokes told about the Russians 20 yrs after the war,...
Mum used to buy four ounces at a time and I can see her now counting them out on the table in...
Rationing was introduced in 1940 for Bacon, Ham, Sugar and Butter and later that year meat then tea,...
When the time came to kill the Christmas poultry, Dad killed the birds by picking them up, tying their feet...
CHURCH Our own church, St James' Free Church of England, Hollinwood, housed an Air Raid Warden's...
CHINESE CAKE 1 and a half lb haricot beans salt and pepper 1 lb mashed potatoes 4 oz boiled bacon 2...
They used the taxis a lot in Moville, going to Derry and there's a standing stone down above...
Now the Germans had U-Boats that went underneath the water, as you know, and they could attack shipping, so...
Anyhow, back to November 1941, it was a nice day on Saturday the 29th and the wedding was timed for three...
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