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Recollections of Ordinary Experiences during Extra-ordinary Times -Part One

It took about 2 weeks for the team to complete the first issue for the whole of Cudworth — we worked...

Don’t Tell Adolf

Did Adolf realize the Morrison was part of the propaganda war designed to show the Germans that we English...

Wartime Memories

We had an Air raid Shelter in our Garth, which Dad and my brothers, both a lot older than me, dug out...

Memories of war

The nozzle of the pump went into the bucket; you put your foot into the stirrup and pumped away, while...

The Story of Mrs Marler

He was asked to take ammunition to the Ports, as although the Milking Machines were innocent items inside...

Memories of Silverdale during the 2nd World War

Alice Askey, née Simms, remembers 7 girls going together as Bevan Girls to make piston rings in a...

Reminiscences from Derry

Paddy... yes we had railing at the front of our house in Strabane that were taken away When I think of Sea...

War Memories: A Childhood in Twickenham

On one occasion I was standing at the back door after the siren had sounded and watched the searchlights...

A War Baby's War

From 1937 to 1939 the R.U.R. had served in 16 Infantry Brigade in Palestine commanded by Brigadier Bernard...

Recollections of World War II

Grosmont is positioned close to the historic old fishing port of Whitby and can be found by following the...

Hitler v Brighton Boy Part 2b

My Boy Scouts Pocket Diary provides a 13-14 year-old boy's view of his priorities at a time when...

My Memories of the War - For my Children and Grandchildren

My sister and I were then evacuated to a farm in Little Horksley to stay with a Mr.& Mrs.Pearce, they...

The Story of Bevin's Babes: Chapter 9

11 THE SUMMARY OF HEATHER'S STORY — tells of my birth at home in Mitcham, Surrey during an air...

Gladys Hudson - My Memoirs of WW2

I also had two elder sisters Rose and Hilda and a brother, John. The war in Europe was drawing to a close...

Memories of the Women's Land Army and Other Wartime Memories

Training at the Midland Agricultural College The trainee Land Army girls who had been sent to the College...

The War in Ruislip Manor Part2

We always had a good laugh at the way the Germans tried to make us downhearted by broadcasting news that we...

A Wartime Childhood.

At a later stage in the war, I was in my Sunday school class and we were told that if a German...

The Story of Bevin's Babes: Chapter 11

In those days, when Wandsworth and Clapham Common were — in parts — still countrified suburbs,...

Bombs, ARP and Home Guards

And they were both lovers of the sea, and Father and Uncle had a sailing boat and a motor boat, but they...

The Story of Miss Boobier (Switchboard Operator)

In Bobby's there was a Restaurant and my father played in the orchestra they use to have a cake trolley...

Some of My Wartime Experiences

Mum and dad took my sister and me to the departure point — a school playground — with our...

Childhood Memories of World War Two

We had two adjoining mid-terrace houses - my Mum and Dad, my sister and I in one house and my mother's...

Tess' memories of World War ll

Despite all the shouting by Air Raid Wardens, Bomb Disposal Officers and Uncle Steve, she calmly went...

Childhood Reflections

I lived with my family in Alexandra Road on Newland Avenue in Kingston upon Hull, East Yorkshire... Whilst...

Surviving the War in Cumbria

Chief among these were Tommy Handley's "Itma", Henry Hall's"Music Night" and...

Farm Life and an Army Cadets' Experiences

We had to take the books out to the car for en to check, and he said 'I can see you're honest'...