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Me in My Pram. Part One.

Dixie lived with his mum and dad,his two sisters, Kath and Mary, at number 148. Evacuees were kids from...

My War

We watched as my brother was taken away by an old lady with grey hair and an unsmiling face, but I held...

Surviving Childhood in World War 2

RAF Leeming was known for its Wellington and Halifax bombers which the residents of Northallerton became...

Starting School during the war.

Back at home in Surrey we, that is my parents and my home, had survived the 鈥渂litz鈥� which was a...

War efforts, evacuation, first baby and rationing

Not all the homes were equally suitable: we were appalled to find some children sleeping in outhouses, on...

Life and Love in the ATS :Part 1

One night there was no dance band so Margaret's father, my uncle George, deputised. I was pleased to be...

Snapshots 2

That of course when Dad wasn't on duty at the FAP To enter a public building at night one had to...

A Schoolboy's War

David Houston worked in a torpedo factory on Clydeside and Mary was a Nurse at the local army barracks. I...

Pauline Mottershead Childhood Memories

Of course your Uncle, Neville Mottram, was with the 8th Army at El Alamein and was with the Army when they...

History Memories Dagenham.

One of the buzz bombs, a V1, fell on the end of the houses in Valence Avenue a short distance away from...

A collection of stories from Somerset

On May 11th 1941 a bomb landed in Mrs Gamlin's road, killing a girl and her father....

Maggie Fink Childhood Memories -Part 2

Probably not, thinking about it, and if you kept chickens you weren't allowed eggs, because you got...

Dorothy Taylor- How I saw the second world war part 2

We rarely got new clothes except at Co-op 鈥榙ivi鈥� times, when Mam would collect the dividend...

Betty Bennett Chepstow Memories

I joined the Chepstow Young Farmers鈥� Club where Philip was a member. I was late for my Cardiff and...

The Story of Bevin's Babes: Chapter 6

7 THE SUMMARY OF MARLENE'S STORY 鈥� In London, she details her early memories of being shuttled...

Wartime Memories written for my grandchildren Pt 2

My dancing teacher planned extravagant 鈥楧isplays'. She hired the Avenue Hall in the Avenue and...

Memories of World War Two

Some nights we were up and down several times so in the end Dad put a mattress in the corner of the...

Ruby

He had come from London and started an upholstery factory next door to where we lived and manufactured...

The Diary of Two Nobodies - Part One

My sister Jean was only five years old when the RAF fought the great aerial dog-fights over London which...

The People's War

I was a pupil at 鈥� Barrs Hill Secondary Modern School for Girls鈥�, Margaret worked at the...

Recollections of the Second World War Part 3

Now they had occupied France and the Low Countries, the Germans were much closer to Britain so could reach...

Peter Phelps

I knew quite a number of the Land Girls because we used to go dancing to Llanishen in the crowd you know,...

Personal Stories from Our Family Book,Owen Neal.

Kenneth's first voyage in 1940 was on the Mary Kingsley, an old ship, and because it had been heavily...

The Depression and World War Two: Part 2: Childhood Memories

Sagger called him his 鈥楧ancing Doll鈥� the reason being, when Mervyn was called to the front of...

Effie's War in Lincolnshire - Part 2

We had two sulphuric-acid batteries that were interchanged and charged at Proctors, who had a house, shop...

One Child's Story Part 2

Mum hadn't got back from shopping when the bomb landed on the library but luckily Dad was at home. Dad...