The oldest sister worked the whole war at the Foreign Office and thus was privy to information that...
Her friend, Mrs Ellis, wrote in the newspapers about the hardships in England. My sister came back over...
My brother, Arthur Hunter, three years younger than me, lived in a Police House, with our parents, behind...
When England had it's back to the wall in early 1940 expecting a Geramn invasion, my parents accepted a...
One bomb fell in the roadway in Seaside close to a number of vehicles, including two buses, the driver of a...
After the birth of my Brother in 1944 children were being sent away from Eastbourne And it was arranged...
However we were taken out in an open back fire engine in all weathers as far as Brighton some nights on...
I had got one cupboard ready as we always found wherever a place was bombed there was always a cupboard...
My parents were in Guernsey, they hadn't been able to get away, so I went up to my aunt in Berkshire,...
Longstone was a village which sheltered evacuees and was comparatively unaffected by air attack, although...
An early memory is of 'Bonfire Night', probably 1940 or '41, when friends, with a shop, found...
It was on a summer Sunday afternoon about 5pm and a wave of German fighters followed by bombers flew over...
I first volunteered to join the Land Army with a friend Lillian Hooper in 1942, we both worked at the...
The schools in Ramsgate were evaucated en masse to Staffordshire, but it was decided that I should...
It was not until well into 1940 that things started hotting up, and in June of that year British troops...
My mother, Edna Kate Jones, was 23 years old and had been married for less than two months when War broke...
Living in the Midlands, our town had only 2 light bombings, both on the outskirts. Sent to work on Bailey...
I was initially billeted with a Mrs D Stacey of Church St, but I stayed mainly with a Mrs Hooper who was...
The house I went to had the window left unlatched because the lady worked, so I was lifted onto the window...
She had access to food for the hens and being newly married she was desperate for some stair carpet... Mum...
Dad passed it on the last day of the blitz on Liverpool but all overdrafts had to be approved by Head...
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