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15 October 2014

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The following WW2 memories have been collected by People's War Story Gatherers who have been trained by CSV / 大象传媒 Radio Nottingham.

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Stories contributed by nottinghamcsv

In the country near Liverpool
War In Nottingham
My experience in Long Eaton, Nottingham
Happy Christmas Doctor
Memories of Air Raids in Norwich
First Day Light Raid in Britain
Doing Jobs for the Yanks
Crashed Planes and Oranges
FASHION CONSCIOUS
Missed Opportunities
Wartime childhood memories in The Meadows
Memories of gas masks and chocolate
Wishing I could join up
my evacuation experiences
Anna's story
Signalling to the enemy!
Experiences from flying squadron 201
Survival in a Dinghy
The Night They Bombed Nottingham
Wartime Memories from the Farm
Pte Tom Marshall's Escape From Italian P.O.W. Camp
Childhood Wartime Memories
The Egg Saga
Repulse Bay
The Warden
Air Raid on Nottingham
1940-1945 Through the eyes of a Child
Italy
The Moving Food!
The 1st Cinema
Ice-Creams & Atom Bombs
"Survival in a dinghy"
"Experiences from Flying Squadron 201"
"Signalling the Enemy !"
My Experience of War
Knitting for evacuees
Working at Boots in the War
My Family in the War
Living near the Gun Factory
No school thanks to the War
memories of evacuees
"Coming to Nottingham"
An accident at lunchtime
Adopting ships
My First Air Raid
"V.E. Day and after"
"Wartime Bournemouth"
Memories of bombing in Nottngham
Being Evacuated
Lack of Stockings
Nights in the Shelters
Memories of Shelters
Rationing
Memories of My Son and I during the War
Collecting Shrapnel and lots of Knitting
Jamaica during the War
Recruiting Men from Jamaica
Experience at Dunkirk
Frightening Memories
"Mickey Mouse Gas Mask"
Scouts had rationing too
Celebration Bonfire !
'The Germans are Coming!'
Boys at war
Giving birth during the war
Friendly Fire Joke
Meeting with the Americans
Doing lots of washing
Special gifts from abroad
Fun times working in Chilwell during the war
Bomb on Chilwell
Good times spent with my husband on leave
In the shelters every night
Memories of rationing
Black Outs
Working at Players
"Sunday was a day off!"
Chilhood Memories
"Creeping up on the enemy!"
Factory Life
Evacuated
Nottingham City Transport
"Barrage Balloon came a knocking !"
Anti Gas mask cream
Planes flying over Birmingham
My War time wedding dress
"Lincolnshire Fire Service"
Mrs Purves's wartime recollections in Nottingham
The battle for Casino
An encounter with a boxing champion
Recollections of the St Nazaire raid
Joyce hollingworth's Red Cross experiences
the importance of Penicillin
No sweets
Collecting Damsons
During the War
The Yanks Had Gum
Memories of planes
Church roof blown off
Smelly shelters
Born during the war
Jobs during the war
Memories of an air-raid over Stanton
Plane crash over Stanley Village
General Life during the War Years
Transport in the smog
Entertainment in the War Years
Mines
Cables
Shooting a fatally injured comrade
Hearing
Meningitis
Buzz Bomb
banana turnip
3 piece suite
Air raid in Hyson Green
Breaching the blackout
German air raid
War time clothes
Fake stockings
Lost family of evacuees
Black market
Coal
Strange Tobacco
American soldiers based in Nottingham
Leslie Dexter鈥檚 VE Day celebrations
War Memorabilia
Meeting German POWs
Stewart Parry, When War Was Declared
Stewart Parry Keeping Informed During The War
The Morning After Bomb Raids
Florence Brown's First Job
A Wartime Wedding
Travelling With The Air Force
The Japanese - not as enemies but as Prisoners of War
My time in the forces
Working during the war
Feeling poorly on Air Raid duty
Anderson Shelter in our garden
How school was affected
The Wartime Band
No Siren Warning
Billeted Soldiers
The Flying Bomb
Cheese Gravy!
Life in Venice
Something on the roof
unexploded bomb along the Embankment
Evacuation and Battle of Britain
Fighting in the air
School time in the war
Reminders now
Memories of Dunkirk
Neighbour gone
Food Memories
Gas Mask Memories
Evacuated to Nottingham
Everyone was the same
Teenager in the war
Works shelter hit
A school boy in London blitz Part one
A school boy in London blitz part two
A school boy in London blitz part three
My fathers contribution to counter-intelligence during WW2
My experiences abroad during the war
Getting married during the war
Why we had black outs
Moving to Nottingham From London
Going in the Shelters
Birthday Cakes and an Ice Cream Treat
Christmas time, bathing costumes and games
Everyone Pulled Together
Breaking coal for Granddad
When Peace Came
Mothers amazing dresses
The Best Christmas
The Talking Trains
One night in the black out
Resucing Meat
A young winner
Joining Up
The Pig Platoon
Early War Memories
Nottingham Blitz
Working as a nurse
No medals and no youth
The unhappiest period of my life
The Firs Maternity Home (Nottingham 1942)
Life in war in Woodhouse
Raid on Peenemunde
Invasion of Norway
Life at Plessley Vale
Evacuation from Crete
Nottingham 1939 - 1944
Food points and rations
The Land Mine
My husbands experiences of war Pt1 'Calling Up Papers'
My husbands experiences of war pt2 'The Desert Rats'
My husbands experiences of war pt3 'Escape by sea'
My husbands experiences of war Pt4 'Egypt Again'
The dangers of 'careless talk'
The mystery Canadian nurse
'Destination unknown'
Bombing of Coventry
Making Do at Home During the War
Advance to Monte Cassino
AWOL in Norwich
Bombing in Nottingham
Bombing of the Munitions Factory in Newark, Nottinghamshire
Bombing of Wesel
Empire Morn Stranded in Murmansk
End of War Service in Norwich Cathedral
Escape by Boat from the Germans
Growing Food - Market Gardens in Nottinghamshire
Helping Each Other in Nottinghamshire
Hosting Evacuees and American Soldiers in Nottingham
Making Bombs in Nottingham
Making Underwear in Nottingham for the Forces
Military Police Work in Colchester
Military Police Work - German Hospital Ship
Training Accounts Clerks for Wartime Duty
Bombing the Bakery in The Meadows, Nottingham
My Wartime Experience in Holmer, Hereford.
Operation Pedestal
Operation Torch
Mining Accident at Blidworth and Farnsfield Plane Crash
POW Camp in the UK
War time in Southwell, Farnsfield and Edingley
Plastic Surgery on Airmen's Faces
Making Bombs in Nottingham
Ploughing Fields - My War Service
Wartime Wedding in Holmer, Herefordshire
A Teenager During the War Years
My Father's Experience in the ARP
Life in London - Managing on Coupons
An Office Worker's View of the Bombing in London
A Boy Seaman on HMS Ramillies
An Able Seaman on HMS Peacock
Too Young to Enter the Forces - My Early War Years
Women's Land Army
Medical Miracle
"Fire Watch or Card School !"
"And the baby stayed asleep!"
Wartime Life in Oxfordshire
Village Life in Rural Hampshire
Wartime Memories of Nottingham
Remembering the Night Nottingham was Bombed
Hand - me - downs
Shot At
Wartorn Teenage Years
What might have been
A Teenager's Story
Childhood Memories of Sheila Rowland
Mrs Cholmondley / Mrs Bottomley!
Wath on Dearne War Weapons Week
A 13-year-old's story
The unexploded bomb in Ashford Common
Vicker Armstrong Aircraft Factory
Experiences of a medical officer at Arnhem.
Railway working in Nottingham
Volunteering and made to measure trousers
Our Lucky Escape
My RAF postings
War time work
Dangerous Women's Work
Meeting my husband and war work
Memory of the war
In the ATS and our wedding.
18 during the war
Working during the war and other memories
An enjoyable childhood
Having a baby during the war
Strict Parents
Money for the Doctors
Working at a cardboard box factory
My experience as a Signals Man
The Chicken Story
Voyage to Egypt
D Day and the Dockers
Aspects in the life of a school boy WW2
Plane spotting
Dresses
Rabbits
Shooting at the Germans !
Ransom and Marls factory
School or Potato picking ?
Dropping bombs anywhere
Evacuees
My father's day
My wartime games
My first job - Petrol pump attendant
Helping Mum buy beer !
'Being bombed with Daddy'
"Sleeping on desks"
Victory Queen
Life on a Gunsite
From Ireland to Nottingham
"Change of Shopping Plans!"
"A Luxurious Evacuation!"
my wartime memories part 1
my wartime memories part 2
"Children's bomb experience"
"Ice-cream for V.E. day !"
Memories of World War Two by John Carter
My special Dad (one of the many who came home to tell their story)
WW2
I was 10 years old at the outbreak of war
"Wartime Humour !"
"Sink Penelope"
"Elsie and the Shop Dummies!"
From Notts to Normandy
WWII Minesweeping
"Grace's Tale"
My wartime experiences. Chapter 1 - Call to war
My wartime experiences. Chapter 2 - Norway and Capture (part 1)
My wartime experiences. Chapter 2 - Norway & Capture (part 2)
My wartime experiences - chapter 2 - Norway & Capture (part 3)
Premonitions
"A memory of the Exeter Blitz"
"D. Day"
"She saw the picture (by chance)"
Watch out Jerry - Here I come (part one)
Watch out Jerry - Here I come (part two)
Watch out Jerry - Here I come (part three)
Watch out Jerry - Here I Come (part four)
"Guinea Pig Porton Down"
Watch Out Jerry - We're coming back (part one)
Watch Out Jerry - We're coming back (part two)
"My experience of going to the Far East"
Get Off Home Quick Jerry - We're coming after you (part one)
"Water Shortage!"
"Poem for Antonet"
"Life in the W.A.A.F Jan 1942 to August 1945"
"Southampton Salvour (salvage Ship) on its way through War 1944 - 1946"
"The War Years"
"The Southanpton Salvour (Salvage Ship) on its way through War 1944 - 1946"
"School"
"War Years at Royden Hall Farm, Shardlow, Derbys."
"Memories or War in a mining village"
Get off home quick Jerry - We're coming after you (part 2)
Get off home quick Jerry - We're coming after you (part 3)
Get off home quick Jerry - We're coming after you (part four)
Start running Jerry - We're ready to come back, fully trained fit and efficient.
WW2 Diary of Winifred Sarah Elizabeth Middleton (part one)
WW2 Diary of Winifred Sarah Elizabeth Middleton (part two)
WW2 Diary of Winifred Sarah Elizabeth Middleton (part three)
WW2 Diary of Winifred Sarah Elizabeth Middleton (part four)
WW2 Diary of Winifred Sarah Elizabeth Middleton (part five)
WW2 Diary of Winifred Sarah Elizabeth Middleton (part six)
WW2 Diary of Winifred Sarah Elizabeth Middleton (part seven)
WW2 Diary of Winifred Sarah Elizabeth Middleton (part eight)
WW2 Diary of Winifred Sarah Elizabeth Middleton (part nine)
WW2 Diary of Winifred Sarah Elizabeth Middleton (part ten)
WW2 Diary of Winifred Sarah Elizabeth Middleton (part eleven)
WW2 Diary of Winifred Sarah Elizabeth Middleton (part twelve)
WW2 Diary of Winifred Sarah Elizabeth Middleton (part thirteen)
WW2 Diary of Winifred Sarah Elizabeth Middleton (part fourteen)
WW2 Diary of Winifred Sarah Elizabeth Middleton (part fifteen)
WW2 Diary of Winifred Sarah Elizabeth Middleton (part sixteen)
WW2 Diary of Winifred Sarah Elizabeth Middleton (part seventeen)
World War 2 Recollections of a small boy.
Memories of the War as a child
Leading Signalman P/JX.158613 Leonard Henry Mitton Royal Navy
VE Day & VJ Day
1944 - 1947
My husbands WW2 experiences
My cousins letters
Attack on Breville Batten and village
"Mum's War effort in the birth of National Savings"
D Day with "the Queens own Rifles of Canada" & poem 'My buddy'
That Special Place
Ranville
Normandy
The day I had to go
"War time in a Norfolk Village"
The forgotten one
The last farewell
Why?
The admirality at War
No escaping or messing with women
Wartime Heanor
Bombing Mapperly Village, Derbyshire
Early Childhood in Beeston
A School Boy's War
Wartime Guide and Ranger Movement
You can't blackout the moon
RAF Memories
Just a Country Girl
Firefighting in the War
One Didnt Get Home
An Air Raid Warden's Memories
My War in the ATS Chislehurst, Blackdown and Leicester
"Childhood memories of the Forties"
"Whar difference did the War make to me?"
"War saved my teeth"
"I was one of the Lucky ones"
Poem In Nagasaki
"Armentiers"
"First Encounters"
Meeting my future wife
Bert Browns Wartime Experiences
DIARY OF LAC 1497538 WILLIAM ERIC SAVILLE WHILST OVERSEAS (Part one)
DIARY OF LAC 1497538 WILLIAM ERIC SAVILLE WHILST OVERSEAS (part two)
DIARY OF LAC 1497538 WILLIAM ERIC SAVILLE WHILST OVERSEAS (part three)
DIARY OF LAC 1497538 WILLIAM ERIC SAVILLE WHILST OVERSEAS (part four)
DIARY OF LAC 1497538 WILLIAM ERIC SAVILLE WHILST OVERSEAS (part five)
DIARY OF LAC 1497538 WILLIAM ERIC SAVILLE WHILST OVERSEAS (part six)
My Childhood Memories
Childhood Memories of World War II
Wartime in Cropwell Bishop
Remembering the War 1939 - 1945
"War time Nursing Memories"
"Getting Old"
"War Service"
"A Signal man travels to Canada and beyond"
What difference did the war make to me
One of the Few
'High Noon'
'Going out on Air Raids with my father'
'Tin Hats'
'Outside during an Air Raid'
The story of a German Soldier
Life In War
The plot bottle and the Glider-Fields
Photographs of my husbands experiences of war pt1
Photographs of my husbands experiences of war pt2
Photographs of my husbands experiences of war pt3
Photographs of my husbands experiences of war pt4
Photographs of my husbands experiences of war pt5
Photographs of my husbands experiences of war pt6
Photographs of my husbands experiences of war pt7
Photographs of my husbands experiences of war pt8
Photographs of my husbands experiences of war pt9
Photographs of my husbands experiences of war pt10
Photographs of my husbands experiences of war pt11
Photographs of my husbands experiences of war pt12
Photographs of my husbands experiences of war pt13
Photographs of my husbands experiences of war pt14
Photographs of my husbands experiences of war pt15
Photographs of my husbands experiences of war pt16
Photographs of my husbands experiences of war pt17
Photographs of my husbands experiences of war pt18
Photographs of my husbands experiences of war pt19
Photographs of my husbands experiences of war pt20
Photographs of my husbands experiences of war pt21
Photographs of my husbands experiences of war pt22
Photographs of my husbands experiences of war pt23
Photographs of my husbands experiences of war pt24
Photographs of my husbands experiences of war pt25
Photographs of my husbands experiences of war pt26
Photographs of my husbands experiences of war pt27
Photographs of my husbands experiences of war pt28
Photographs of my husbands experiences of war pt29
Photographs of my husbands experiences of war pt30
Photographs of my husbands experiences of war pt31
Photographs of Sydney Barthorpe Wartime experiences pt1
Photographs of Sydney Barthorpe Wartime experiences pt2
Photographs of Sydney Barthorpe Wartime experiences pt3
Photographs of Sydney Barthorpe Wartime experiences pt4
Photographs of Sydney Barthorpe Wartime experiences pt5
VOLUNTARY SERVICE IN RAF WITH 鈥�80 SQUADRON
Wartime school and living
A wartime romance
Photograph linked to 'A Wartime Romance' pt1
Photograph linked to 'A Wartime Romance' pt2
Bluecoat School Bomb
Wartime in Beeston
CHILDHOOD MEMORIES
MY FIVE YEARS IN UNIFORM
The lighter side
Cruelty under the sun
鈥淲ounded鈥� in Action, November 1943
HUCKNALL AND NEWTON AERODROMES
MEMORIES OF LEAVING ENGLAND, DESTINATION UNKNOWN
A WARTIME CHILDHOOD
WARTIME MEMORIES
My Wartime adolescence memories
THE BLACK 40鈥檚 - GONE
RECOLLECTIONS AND MY JOURNEY WITH R.A.F. 1943-1944
Mary McClean's war memories
The Sadness Of War
The Way Home (chapter 8)
Civilians at war
Civilians at war - part 2
Yes there were carrier pigeons 鈥� highly trained
Meeting Home While Away
Royal Navy Seaman 鈥� HMS Cowdray 鈥� LST 414 鈥� LST 405 Jan 1942 鈥� 1945
The Timber Corps
Women's Land Army
Beryl's story
Lily Goldman's war

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