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Civic Centre, Bedford

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Bedford People's War Roadshow
The People's War Roadshow is a joint venture between the 大象传媒 People's War project, Bedford Borough Council, and other local partners.

The Roadshow will be at the Civic Theatre in Bedford between the 27th May and the 12th June, There will be a lively programme of activities including, dramatised readings, Glenn Miller talks, opportunity to see archive film footage and 1940s singing and dancing. Please bring your wartime stories. Volunteers will be on hand to help those unfamiliar with the technology!

Local residents are particularly encouraged to come along on the 8th of June to meet 大象传媒 3CR who will be running a live show. Please bring your old photos or other memorabilita and take part in our "Bring and Tell" session!

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Stories contributed by Civic Centre, Bedford

spam & powdered eggs
David Langdon Evacuee
Being called up for 'war work'
How My Family Survived the War
The Bombing in Albert Street
German Bomber in the Sky
Seeing Planes as a Boy
Living in Luton During the War
The British Soldier
Podington Air Base
Saved by a Luftwaffe Pilot
The Land Army and The Bennett Girls
Women working in munitions
Bedford War Memories
War poems
A Grateful American ?????
Young War Memories
All Gone!
Bedford Home Guard
A Child of the War
Clothing
Early Childhood Memories
Hartup Wartime History
The Last 8 Months of the War
A Young Boy in the War, and His Baptism With Death
The Eve of D-Day
Me at 14.
A Wartime Childhood.
Wartime memories beside an American airfield
Lancaster Bombers
My Father The Navigator
Thurleigh Airfield
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
My Dad in WW2
Memories of Amercans in Bedford
A Navy Volunteer
Decoding AND Army Life
My Grandad Becoming a Casualty on VE day
Vauxhall Motors
A 4 year olds memory of D-Day
Grandmother Memory
When I Was 5 Years Old.
My Brave Uncle
Happy Endings
Where Is She
The Last Wartime Bride.
Narrow Escape
Happy Endings part 2
ENSA
Happy Endings Part 3
Evacuation: From Leyton to Brentwood
Battle of Tunis
Evacuee in Bedford
1939/1945 My War: In St Neots and Glenridding
Wartime Memories of Patricia Snow
My Father, Barry Lotin: A Radio Officer in the Merchant Navy
Wartime Services: In Bedfordshire
Telegrams at Bedford Post Office
Evacuation to North Wales: From Orkington, Kent
A Boy's ARP Training
The Day I Lost the Family Tea
Dodgy Whiskey!!
The Duchess and the Land Girl
On Being a Uniped or The Leg and I
The Leg and I - Amusing Incidents
Sheila's Childhood Memories of the War
Mary Daniels - My War Experience
Love Knot
Convoy duty
Minesweeping Around Burma
My Wartime Childhood in Gt. Barford.
Bedford-War Memories
Identity Bracelet
From Girl to Woman in Manchester
Old Southgate
Doodle Bug
"East End Birthday"
July 19th 1944 My Wedding
RAF Bomber Navigator
Farming and POWs
Making friends in the sausage que
The doodlebug over Kenton (Nr Wembley)
Clearing Up The Blitz
En Route to Egypt
Doodlebugs in Watford
Motttingham
Doodlebugs Overhead
Cold Nights and Hot Cocoa
Dark During the Day!
Dell Wall
Wax Polish
I Was There
Letter to Son
I Was There - Part 2
My Life Before, During and After the War.
Tea with the Soldiers: Roundhay, Leeds
Memories: Working at Allens Engineering in Bedford
Spitfire over Silverdale
Home on Leave: Childhood Memories in Blackburn
The Royal Observer Corps: The eyes and ears of the RAF
British Soldiers Helping Escapees in 1946
It's over!
Life in the Territorial Army
The Front Door
A Bedford Resident's Memories of Occupied Italy
From Bulford Camp to the Battle of the Bulge
The First V2 Rocket to Fall in Britian
Family Tribute, the Taylors
XV Squadron Navigators Log Book
Evacuees in Wales: Hay On Wye, Mid Wales
American Troops
Captured in Singapore
Return to Normandy Beaches
Exploding Incendary Bombs
My Favorite Horse and Motorcycle Disaster
Mr & Mrs Vasen & Rae- 'A home at last'
Dunkirk Silverware
The Land Army Girl and the Americans
A Young Boy During the War
The WREN in Paris
D-day landings
The Quiet Man
Home Visit
From Beacon Barracks-Bulford Camp to the Battle of the Bulge
Bombs over Bedford
Air Raid
Memories from when I was 7
Memories of My Childhood during WW2: In Cuffley, Hertfordshire
Wartime Effort: Making Bricks in Bedfordshire
War Comes to Welney
Bedford Boys Club Gymnastics Team
Harry the London Evacuee
A Personal Memory: Drinking Out of Glass Jam Jars
Family Visit: Custard Powder and Prunes
Outstanding Memories: A Beer Bottle Full of Paraffin
Getting it Wrong and the Shattered Shelter: An Aircraft Spotter in Bedford
The War in Bedford: Explosion on Midland Bridge
The Practice
Cooking the goose
Growing up During the War
Yanks
The Escape
Childhood Dramas
Early Teenage Memories
Growing up in The Royal Navy
On Patrol at El Alamein
With the ATS in Italy
Climbing the Radar
Biggleswade Memories
Around Caldecote
From Dagenham to the Unknown
Bedford ARP
The Moving Roof
School Air Raid Precautions
Ministry of Labour
A Happy Evacuee
Schoolboy in Rushden
The Western Brothers
Fetching the Pram
Personal Recollections of the R.A.F.
D-Day, a Son's Remembrance of his Father's Launch by Brian Ward.
Memories by Brian Ward
Mountain Artillery
Early Years
Family Pet
Moving
The Chesters of Greyfriars Walk
Explosives, Amunition, Parachute Flares and Thunder Flashes!
Mustang Crash, Wilden Beds
Dereliction of Duty
Aircraft Recognition
Childhood During the War
WWW2 - Childhood Memories of Holborn
Bombed out in Shoreditch
Evacuees from Bethnal Green to Caldicote
A Bedford Resident's Memories of the Deutche Berate in Udine
Unfortunate Civilian Incidents
A Welcome Find in Hamburg
It's Raining Dowstairs
The Diary of Sgt. Bernard Clark RAFVR Nov 30th-Dec 10th 1943
Childhood in Broom, near Biggleswade
D-Day Minesweeper: Onboard HMS Cockatrice
Childhood Memories of War in Bedford
An evacuee from Cricklewood to Elstow
A Student's Wartime Memories: In Bedford
An 11 Year Old Londoner's Memories.
Dear Old Pompey
Gas Identification Officer for Bedford Borough
German in the Garden
Ron Burgess as a Boy in Wartime Bedford
Memories of Sandy: In Bedfordshire
From W Blott & Sons, Drapery to Munitions at Chimney Corner
A Child in Bedford
War Time Land Mine Disaster
A WREN prepares for D-Day
Cardington Airship Hangers
The Diary of Sgt Bernard Clark RAFVR Cont. Dec 11th-20th 1943
War Day 1 11.10 am
Random Memories of a Bedford Schoolboy
Memories of an Evacuee
Living On A Runway
Memories of World War Two
Entertaining in India
Memories of Youngster in WW2
Dunkirk - a Poem
Bombed Theatre
Memories of the Bombing of the Grosvenor Hotel
Mrs Churchill's Aid to Russia Fund
Wartime Landmine Disaster in Paisley Remfrewshire May 1941 - part 2
My Homemade 'Siren Suit'
My Friend Harry O. Jeston
'Do You Know Me Daddy'
'Waiting for the King'
Village Life in Word War Two (the early years)
Experience of Wartime in Grenada
Personal Message from the Queen
German Spies in Bedford
The Bombing of our Sweet Shop
How We Survived
Lidlington in the War
Why I Didn't Get An Irish Passport.
I Came Down Faster Than I Went Up.
Evacuation to Wales
Missing loved ones
Family life at the beginning of the war
Bombs at the tennis courts
Wireless Operator in Chicksands and Germany
Living in an Anderson Shelter
Youthful Memories
Ron Remembers
The Day The Haystack Caught Fire
Michael Wilcox's Wartime Memories of Bedford
A Cage In The Kitchen
Playground Bombsites
Snapshots
It'll make a Man of him
The night the bonny lights fell
Walking Sweet Store
What is it?
Last Supper
Doodle Bugs to Land mine

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