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Making ends meet and whale meat - but not again!

My father was a carpenter and undertaker and when Victor, who came from Cranham, and I married we first...

The War Years in Monkwearmouth

Craven A cigarettes 10 for1/2d Brook Bond tea 1/7d per half pound Eve soap, Eve shampoo, Drene shampoo...

Life for Civilians during the war

On his leave, my husband brought home the overflow of our cheese ration to his family who were bombed out...

A Teenagers War

I lived in South West London and when the Docks were bombed we could look across and see the whole sky...

A Boy's own story of Donegal during the war

That was always a ceilidhe house during the winter and there was always this big bright cheery fire and...

2nd lot of stories of rural Lancashire childhood

I spent a lot of time at Ingol Post Office as Mum always had to help serve in the shop. Mum would...

An Local Defence Volunteer Protects the Perimeter Fence in Eglinton

You managed with the food rationing and everything.... but we had no problem with food rationing in Derry,...

WAR BABY

Helen and her glamorous friend Gloria were always short of bath cubes which they referred to as...

Chepstow Memories

Bert Benjamin I used to work for him, well work for him in the sense that I went round with Raymond,...

Ackworth People's War

I remember the first soft spreading Stork that came out in a tub, my Mum had got some and my Dad came...

A Wren in Derry

You managed with the food rationing and everything.... but we had no problem with food rationing in Derry,...

Family Life

The ladies in the bottom two flats would open their doors and put their kitchen chairs out so that the mums...

Formative years

Though only three years old at the out break of the war, I have still some set memories of the aura of...

Austere Years

There was queuing for cigarettes — a neighbour would come to my granny and say, “Mrs. Ashmore,...

Formative years

Though only three years old at the out break of the war, I have still some set memories of the aura of...

Childhood Memories of World War 2 by Jean Dutfield

When we look at the Supermarkets of today it's hard to imagine that there was ever a shortage of food....

Childhood Memories - Sheila Polson

I remember being told that Mum and Dad were going visiting with my young sister and we had to stay at home....

Second World War - Through a Child's Eyes

Over the other side of the road was Turks/Gurkhás stationed in prefabs/Nissen Huts, they wore turbans...

Wartime Memories Interview (Part 3)

For example the battle of the Atlantic allowed the Merchant Navy to parade in Liverpool… But I do...

No custard, thank you

Our local authority of the day, the Sunderland Rural District Council, was responsible to the Ministry of...

Schoolgirl wartime memories of Turvey, Bedfordshire

Wartime schooldays at Harrold Priory School, Harrold There was the main passageway and the Hall and five...

Working for the Ministry of Food

My name is Betty Harris and towards the end of the war I was working for the Ministry of Food in an...

The Americans

The cakes had to be made with dried eggs, but sometimes May was allowed a tin of frozen eggs which made...

Wartime memories of Ampthill Part Three - The 'Home Front' in Ampthill

I can remember having some nylon stockings, I used to write to a girl in America and she used to send me...

Armstrong's Munitions Factory

I used to cycle from Hull to Beverley, from Sutton Road, Beverley High Road, to Armstrong's in Beverley...

MY TIME IN THE 1940S

I remember cycling up to The Old Workhouse, which was used as the Food Office. Its belly was slit open and...