In early January 1942 my grandmother and auntie were in our old house in Folkestone when it was hit by a...
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I remember being evacuated to Rhyl with my mother and sister. We moved into a Prefab in Belle Vale where my...
When England had its back to the wall in early 1940 expecting a German invasion, my parents accepted a...
He rented the meadow behind Palmer's Garage in Tollesbury, Mr George Brand, who was in charge of the...
Her brother Roy must have stories to tell of his younger time and how he was educated... My Dads friend as...
Leeds was actually fortunate during the war. I can remember walking across East End Park and the ack ack...
In August 1939 we went to Weymouth for the school holidays, my mother, my two younger sisters and I. Father...
His eldest son, my brother Tom, had left home as a civil servant and then joined the RAF as a pilot. My...
In the Autumn of 1939 I was sent to Yorkshire, to live with my aunt in the small mining village of Crofton....
My grandfather always said that the fighter plane he cut in half was a spitfire but my uncle disputes...
And the two ladies that we were evacuated with, because my mother actually came as well, were the Misses...
He and his wife already had 3 of their own children, Norman, Mary and Ruth and we all lived in a small...
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