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15 October 2014
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Graham's Story

I heard him shout and they both started running down the garden path as a German plane flew low over the...

MR DELLER'S WARTIME STORY

Early in October my dad and brother came home in a dreadful state - the factory had been heavily bombed and...

Followed by the War- Part 1

Honey & Marmite Sandwiches

This building housed a collection of wooden rifles and toy muskets, which had been used by the Church Army,...

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Memories of a Wartime Childhood - Anthony George Mallard

In the Autumn we used to go for walks in school time picking Rose Hips from the hedgerows to make Rose Hip...

"FROM HELL TO HEAVEN" (The story of my evacuation from Liverpool to Much Wenlock)icon for Story with photo

I was an evacuee, arriving in Much Wenlock in 1941 at the age of 7 never to return to the filth and...

War Time Family Experiences

When I got back home I was surprised to find the shed had been put in the bottom left hand corner of...

some memories

During the day one could see the dogfights going on overhead between the aircraft, leaving vapour or smoke...

My Childhood Memories of WWII

While we were billeted on a local farm, one of the workers there taught me how to recognize all the...

There's No Place Like ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½icon for Story with photo

Heres where you will be sleeping Rachard" she said, She then told me that tomorrow their son,who was...

Family and Friends

Anything to do with wireless and communications was Uncle George's hobby, and his lively-hood... Uncle...

CIVILIANS AT WAR - CHAPTER TWO

During school holidays, my brother and I sometimes went out onto Bodmin Moor with Mrs Trevains nephew,...

My War As a Child

No one had seen him all the time we had been moving things so Mum told me to go and look for...

Evacuation experiences of the Farmer family during World War 2.

She insisted on taking my mother's family allowance when Mr Wheeler objected and said it was my...

Rita's Wartime Tale as a Land Army Girl part 1

The young lady who argued with her at Truro said to Rita “You have to remember that there is a war...

Memories of WW2

I got an Apprenticeship at Short Bros, the Aircraft Company, working first on Stirling Bombers and then on...

The Trauma of War III

Visits to East Anglia meant seeing - and finally meeting - Germans for the first time - as Prisoners of...

Born to the sound of sirens

Upon returning to our home at 46 Leathwaite Road, just around the corner from Clapham Common, it was to be...

War as a child

He then claimed his sugar allowance which was delivered in CWT bags from Tate and Lyle, so for a few years...

Rita's Tale

The young lady who argued with her at Truro said to Rita “You have to remember that there is a war...

Wartime in 'The Triangle'

The dances at Aldeby attracted soldiers from the local searchlight batteries but they were mainly English...

A schoolboy's perspective

My sister Irene who was fourteen years of age, and my brother David, commonly called Sonny, who was...

Na Den Dee, It's Die Turn! Sheffield Dialect: Now Then You, It's Your Turn!)

Their mother, Mrs Kenneth Lee, her twin sister Mrs Wilton Lee and her children, had decided to move into...

SCHOOLDAYS DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR - part one

My recollections of geography are of a large wall map of the world with the countries marked, another with...

Evacuatiom

"Are you Raymond?" An evacuee in Keswick

Helping my father in his garden shed, going with my friend in the big van to collect baskets of laundry...

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