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Growing Up in War time: In Rotherham Part 1

Dad dug the hole for it into the clay ground of the garden and when it rained the water drained into the...

A Visit to the Doctor

During an air raid the local clinic at the top of Union Street became a casulty centre - as far as I...

From East Acton to Palestine and Back

The Germans were bombing London. Most factories had good canteens selling good solid British food very...

Memories World War Two at Wyke Regis

So with the Weymouth bay and harbour, the Portland harbour and the Torpedo factory, the area was of great...

Wartime Childhood in Cottontown

A bare light bulb, such luxury when most had cold noisy gas, lighting a dark pegged rug in front of a...

Women In Wartime

The Womens Voluntary Services issued us with wool and we made socks, scarfs and jumpers, mainly for the...

A wartime suburban childhood

A few yards away, there was an iron gate which led into an alleyway, which seemed about the safest place to...

How I Thought it Was: Excerpts from My Story

On the opposite side, stood the remains of three or four houses, blackened stumps, crubling with decay,...

The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Guard at Birley East Colliery

Introduction The articles on the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Guard and the Bevin Boys plus its follow up chapter The Overseas...

Dover "Hell Fire Corner" - Family Life

Throughout the second world war the family lived in Dover and the diary recounts such diverse events as air...

Pamela Johnson

They were all so different, the Colonel about Ike's size and the Captain a big bear in the Jeff...

Boyhood Memories of the War in Bedford

My maternal grandfather, William Ford, became caretaker of Bunyan Meeting, Kempston and then of St Pauls...

Lilly's Story (part 1): Leaving Austria for London

Lilly's Story: Leaving Austria for London. My husband, John, who had been in the Socialist Republican...

I was a war child

I was born the youngest of ten children in a Victorian house in Hawksley Road, Stoke Newington in North...

Rosemary's Tribute

I was born in 1935 in Mottingham SE9 into a family called Phillips, a happy extended family with...

Nazi Treasure

My first recollection of the war was of being huddled in the cellar of the terraced house with my Mother,...

Memories of the War in Aylesbury

My mothers brother and wife lived in Stockwell, London with two children Alf and June. Air Raids I once...

One Woman's War

Earlier of course we had been issued with gas masks like everyone else; a Mickey Mouse for the little boy...

Story of a War Time Loss and Friendship - Vi Smart

Peter was born at the Barrett and one of the nurses called Nurse Lockertop because she was always saying...

Hazel Hiam: War Memories from Northampton

He then had a spot of bother because besides his demob suit etc he had to have a travel permit which of...

My Wartime Memories of Bedford as a Schoolboy Part 3 - The 'ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Front'

My wartime memories of Bedford as a schoolboy Part Three — The ‘ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Front’ Now another...

One Child's War:In Essex

My mother, ten years younger than he, began her war by taking into our little house first of all evacuees...

WW2-Life in Kent

An old rotten Oak was dug out, following a great deal of chopping and rotten chips all over the garden......

Rosemary's Tribute

I was born in 1935 in Mottingham SE9 into a family called Phillips, a happy extended family with...

Mother's letters - 6

Pat & Willie went for a night to Edinburgh to visit the theatre but, though they sat through the show...

Leslie Johnson Chepstow memories

A bottle of milk was issued each day, one third pint and school lunch was provided at the school canteen...