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The War in Bedford: Explosion on Midland Bridge

I was just over 5 when I saw a stray German bomber drop its load which I said at the time was...

Flowers from the Grave

I submitted my story under I/D1973919 in November 03 and if possible should like to add a photograph of Bob...

Christamas Time

A few weeks before. a food parcel would arrive from Auntie Margaret in New Zealand, full of mysteries like...

Dunkirk Reminiscence

My experience of Dunkirk, as a young girl, is being told about it by a Mr Sullivan. He was a medical...

Farewell at Doncaster

One day at Doncaster I was seeing my dad off at Doncaster Station as he was leaving to fight. Mrs Margaret...

Gas Mask troubles

One day I forgot my gas mask until I was half way to school... When I got to school I got into...

Evacuees Lived with Us

We had two evacuees in the War from Birmingham... But when they arrived in Tybridge Street and had done the...

Narrow Escape

As a school girl I used to cycle over the Midland Boad bridge to my school in Horne Lane which was the...

The Blitz: Huddled Together - As Told by Marion Hunter

On one particular occasion when the all clear had been given we came out to find my two brothers covered...

A Near Miss

I lived in Reading during World War II — on day, as a birthday treat, I went with my mother and two...

Life in Cumbria: Childhood Memories of Silloth

We had to walk two miles to get there, no matter what the weather was like.We had to do choars and we...

Wartime Swaps

As a child during the war, I recall a regular trade in swaps of bits of shrapnel, foreign coins and...

Evacuee from Birmingham

In September 1939 when I was 8 years old, I went as an evacuee from Sellyoak, Birmingham to...

Our Jim's Sixth Sense

Our dog, Jim, must have known when the raiders were coming along the coast... All our neighbours used to...

Mines!

The bombers came up the river and dropped a mine a few streets away from where he lived... As he was...

My Mum's W.W.2. Experience

My Mum Frances Kelley was born December 1935... One night her mother had just bathed my mum, her sister and...

East Grinstead at War

East Grinstead at War...

Ominous Signs, September 1939

Iwas 5 years old when, returning by rail from a family Wakes week holiday in Southport, Ifirst became aware...

Evacuated

The war was staing and she was evacuated because the town thought that they were going to get bomb.But they...

An 8 year old's view

Memories of a child who was actually at CROFT CASTLE when it was a boarding school during the war years. On...

Bombs over Hatfield Peverel

Some houses along the side of the river had their windows blown out....

A 4 year olds memory of D-Day

One day, I was sent to the local shop by my mother and there was a platoon of soldiers having a smokoe....

Follow That Blimp

A burly, khaki-clad soldier came running alomg the pavement. He was armed with a rifle and chasing an...

Day One

Whilst playing in the street with my cousins, next to my aunts house we were hastily taken into the house...

Evacuee

Anyway, if it wasn't 3rd of Septeber it was soon after that most of our school, together with some...

At Dr Banardo's

In 1941, when I was 7 years old, I went to live in Dr. Banardo's house in Bristol, then later on to...