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The next morning, after a cooked breakfast, we were placed into coaches and driven away, the coach in which...
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All the children slept up on the boards and all the bigger children like me plus mum and dad, slept on the...
The organisation of the Wesham fire station was rapidly changed by the transfer of two regular Blackpool...
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My father, George Henry Cornish, had anticipated the bombing of London, and especially of Poplar, in East...
It has to be said that those involved did an excellent job, but this could not alter the fact that after...
My first memory of the war was after I left St Bee's School in 1939 and came back to the Prince of...
My friend johns parents I believe were Tories, I quite liked them, but they did make the comment that...
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