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15 October 2014
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Volunteers from CSV in Stoke and Staffordshire are helping those who lived and fought during World War Two contribute their memories to the WW2 People’s War Archive. Scroll down to find links to stories and pictures that they have helped to contribute.
If you are a volunteer, find links and information on how to use the site below.

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Stories contributed by StokeCSVActionDesk

Head Banging in the Black out
German's or Rats
Britain's Heroes in Poem
No singing in Hammersmith
Blood on the office floor
Part Texan Part Cherokee
White socks make cream cheese
Canoodling and gas masks
Nylons, Gum and Hop Picking
Fire watching and divvy at the Co-op
Baby in the washing basket
Keeping warm with the oven
Bomb on Downing Avenue
Eye to Eye with a German Bomber Pilot
Badges that shine in the dark
Doll with Wobbly Head
Bursting the Yanks Balloon
Bombs on Chesterton
Babysitting brings the house down
Vicar's own gas bomb
Churchill tank in the living room
Zeppelins from a dustbin
British Shells in the Bath
Wild Women in West Hartlepool
Cooking eggs with an iron
Bananas for the nurses
Surrender in Tokyo Bay
Peach of a weapon
Text Book Hitler
Light Wave Radio?
Lights back on but no beer
The Heroic Story of Captain Perrin Part 1 (by Stanley Jones)icon for Story with photo
The Heroic Story of Captain Perrin Part 2 by Stanley Jonesicon for Story with photo
The heroic story of Captain Perrin Part 3 by Stanley Jonesicon for Story with photo
Mystery Document Found In Bookicon for Story with photo
An Afternoon of Death in Chesterton - Part 1
An Afternoon of Death in Chesterton Part 2
An Afternoon of Death in Chesterton Part 3
The Sirens - Memories of World War 2
A Bit Ear Experience
One Night That Changed My Life
War In Africa
War In Africa II
Dummies
The Steps
Fire Fighters
The night the windows shook
The Night of the Manchester Blitz
On my way to school
The heroic story of Captain Perrin - appendix a (by Stanley Jones)icon for Story with photo
The Heroic Story of Captain Perrin Part - appendix b (by Stanley Jones)icon for Story with photo
The Heroic Story of Captain Perrin - appendix c (by Stanley Jones)icon for Story with photo
A Doodle Bug Through My Window
From Hanley to Naples
Glynn Howe- Reporting for Duty
Red Sky at Night
Letters to David 1
Letters to David 2
I Remember It Well!
Joining Up
Childhood Memories I
Childhood Memories II
Childhood Memories III
Family and Food before Safety
Daughter of the Regimenticon for Story with photo
Daughter of the Regimenticon for Story with photo
A Child's Memory of WW2 in Germany
THE WHOLE WORLD IN FLAMES (Wrenbury Remembers P.2)
SHAKING HANDS WITH AN ORANG-UTAN
THE VASES FULL OF TEA & SUGAR
Evacuees in Middlewich
Nothing to come back to
An Apple A day
Did I Contribute to the War Effort..?Rabbits!
"What can you remember about the last war?"
Discovering an Uncle
"Sam." A POW Story
The Boy on the Garden Wall
How The Bismarck Was Found
Life in Surrey During WW2
Brigadier's talk too much for Jock
Hospitality of Japanese Emperor
Dancing in Nelson Place Newcastle
Swinging Lorries
An Evacuee's Story Chapter I
An Evacuee's Story Chapter II
A Sense of Time (Wrenbury Remembers P.19)
Now Is The Time (Wrenbury Remembers P.1)
Totalitarianism (Wrenbury Remembers P.5)
My time in a Japanese POW camp
D Day at 18
Childhood innocence
Glynn Howe - Off to Sea
Event During Air Raid
Glynn Howe - Back Home
What I Remember of the War in the Netherlands - Chapter One
What I Remember of the War in the Netherlands - Chapter Two
Memories of the War to End All Wars... and Before the Next One! Part 1
Memories of the War After the War to end all Wars... and before the next one - part 2
What I remember of the War in the Netherlands, Chapter 3
What I remember of the War in the Netherlands, Chapter 4
About Mum
Return to Paradise
An Unforgetable Watch On Board
Scorched by the Rising Sun
He Was Only A Small Man (Wrenbury Remembers P.12)
Man is a complex Beast(Wrenbury Remembers P.13)
My First Ship, Memories of it
Around the World in the Royal Navy - Chapter 1: Liverpool - Quebecicon for Story with photo
Images of War (Wrenbury Remembers P.22)
We Have Seen Too Many ruins (Wrenbury Remembers P.35)
One of the desert rats
Why Do We Do It? (Wrenbury Remembers P.33)
The Years Between (Wrenbury Remembers P.36)
Oh Let Us Rest In Peace (Wrenbury Remembers P.38)
War and Peace (Wrenbury Remembers P.39)
Around the World in the Royal Navy Chapter 3: Hong-Kong to Kure (Japan)icon for Story with photo
Around the World in the Royal Navy Chapter 4: Our Stay in Kure (Part 1) - Hiroshimaicon for Story with photo
Tableau (Wrenbury Remembers P.40)
Tents and Bullets
We Have Seen Too Many Ruins (Wrenbury Remembers P.35)
Rear gunner Path Finder. Lancaster Bomber
Strokes of Luck Which Won the War (Wrenbury Remembers P.44) s
Around the World in the Royal Navy - Chapter 4: Kure To Hong-Kong (Part 2)icon for Story with photo
Arpund the World in the Royal Navy. Ch2 Liverpool to Quebec (Part 1)icon for Story with photo
My Dad
Anderson Shelters
A Telegraphist Air Gunners War
Around the World in the Royal Navy - Chapter 2: Qubec to Vancouver (Part 2)icon for Story with photo
Around the World in the Royal Navy - Chapter 4: Hong Kong to Kure (part 3)icon for Story with photo
Deadly Mushroom?Smiling Messenger.
What I Know Of My Fathericon for Story with photo
Around the World in the Royal Navy - Chapter 5: 'Kure to Hong Kong' (part 1)icon for Story with photo
Around the World in the Royal Navy - Chapter 5: 'Kure to Hong Kong' (Part 2)icon for Story with photo
Around the World in the Royal Navy -Chapter 6: Aden to Portsmouthicon for Story with photo
Around the World in the Royal Navy - Picture 1icon for Story with photo
Around the World in the Royal Navy - Picture 2icon for Story with photo
Around the World in the Royal Navy - Picture 3icon for Story with photo
Around the World in the Royal Navy - Picture 4icon for Story with photo
Around the World in the Royal Navy - Picture 5icon for Story with photo
Around the World in the Royal Navy -Picture 6icon for Story with photo
Around the World in the Royal Navy - Picture 7icon for Story with photo
Around the World in the Royal Navy - Picture 8icon for Story with photo
Around the World in the Royal Navy - Picture 9icon for Story with photo
Around the World in the Royal Navy - Picture 10icon for Story with photo
Around the World in the Royal Navy - Picture 11icon for Story with photo
Around the World in the Royal Navy - Picture 12icon for Story with photo
Around the World in the Royal Navy - Picture 13icon for Story with photo
Around the World in the Royal Navy - Chapter 14icon for Story with photo
Around the World in the Royal Navy - Picture 15icon for Story with photo
Around the World in the Royal Navy - Picture 16icon for Story with photo
Around the World in the Royal Navy - Chapter 17icon for Story with photo
Around the World in the Royal Navy - Picture 18icon for Story with photo
Around the World in the Royal Navy - Picture 19icon for Story with photo
Around the World in the Royal Navy - Picture 20icon for Story with photo
Around the World in the Royal Navy - Picture 21icon for Story with photo
Around the World in the Royal Navy - Picture 22icon for Story with photo
Around the World in the Royal Navy - Picture 23icon for Story with photo
Around the World in the Royal Navy - Picture 24icon for Story with photo
It Had Seemed A Small Thing (Wrenbury Remembers P.47)
An Indomitable People (Wrenbury Remembers P.55)
The House Has Gone Anne
How It Was For My Generation (Echoes of War P.7)
Displaced Persons (Echoes of War P.18)
The Bread Of Life [part one] (Echoes of War P.23)
The Bread of Life (Echoes of War p.23)
Fred's vision (Echoes of War P.45)
Eyes of the 8th Army (part two)
Eyes of the 8th Army (part one)
The Factory in a Garden, Ch4-Barlaston. Part 4
The Factory in a Garden, Ch.4- Barlaston. Part 3
The Factory in a Garden, Ch.4-Barlaston. Part 2
The Factory in a Garden, Ch.4-Barlaston. Part 1
My Life In Castletown
Birmingham memories
MEMORIES OF AN EVACUEE

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