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The Life of a Child on the Home Front 鈥� Part 2

One large bomb landed in HM Prison at Wakefield, in an old disused gas holder, which had to be made safe....

Memories of a Girl born into a Police Family [Mrs.Welch]

Covent Garden opera house cleared out all the seats and turned it into a dance hall. Ivor Novello was a...

May's War

The bombing of our cities started with London during August and then within a week Birmingham, the first...

Walkley in War. Wartime Childhood in Sheffield.

Friday, Dad's pay day was always special we would have tripe and onions with mashed potatoes and what...

My Childhood Memories of World War II, Cambridge

Our sports lessons were taught by the young lady students from nearby Homerton College who took us to their...

Comradeship and Companionship

There were lots of changes due to the war which meant my Mum and Dad having to work very long hours,...

Wartime Memories of a Norwich Girl

When the air raid was over, my sister and I walked up Old Palace Road and saw where a pub had taken...

A Little Boys Memories

At the bottom of the street, where the fence was, is where we spent most of our time after school and...

War Damage and Repairs

Local air raids damaged Falmouth's Wesley Church, Lister Street and the Boscawen Hotel. In fact Lister...

War Years in Collyhurst Manchester

Many a morning I and my brother Michael, have joined my mam queuing at Dennis`s which was a local cigarette...

Evacuated, Returned, Then Blitzed.

There we were with bombers flying over head, a bomb which may explode any minute and water getting higher...

Birmingham at War.

The island down the road by the Golden Cross pub got bombed one night and Mrs Swan next door was Air Raid...

Cod Liver Oil and Malt and Horse Stew

Uncle Bernard, in Montreal, Dad's oldest brother, sent seeds, food parcels and bright red apples from...

What the War Gave and Took Away

My father volunteered for the Royal Air Force and that left me and Mom alone, and, as she suffered acute...

Growing Up in War time: In Rotherham Part 1

Dad dug the hole for it into the clay ground of the garden and when it rained the water drained into the...

The Story of Bevin's Babes: Chapter 4

4THE SUMMARY OF OLLIE'S STORY 鈥� With her Father away in the 鈥淩.A.F鈥�, working as a...

Memories of the Second World War

All around Corby they were installing antiaircraft guns with a searchlight crew manned by soldiers and...

Childhood Wartime Memories - Part One

Also the other side of Finsbury Park near Highbury Stadium was the main line out of Kings Cross so these...

Memories World War Two at Wyke Regis

So with the Weymouth bay and harbour, the Portland harbour and the Torpedo factory, the area was of great...

A wartime suburban childhood

A few yards away, there was an iron gate which led into an alleyway, which seemed about the safest place to...

Joan Taylor -Reflections

We lived where Westtown started in a yard, bordered at the top by a road called Webster Hill and at the...

War Memories: A Child in Norwich

She and her brother came to stay with two maiden aunts opposite in our road and I was told I had to...

Chiristmas Dinner Dash

At the time of conjunction between the cat with the pork on one side of the door and Kate on the opposite...

The Mournes and Me: Kath's Story

I can remember watching the people walking along the Dundrum Road, people who had walked the whole way from...

War Memories of Derry

I was born in a quiet and rather sad town that was Derry before 1939. Fortunately, Derry escaped attack,...

Childhood Memories from Rayleigh, Essex: School Life

We collected souvenirs of every description, pieces of British and German aircraft, German being the most...