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Dennis Harper's Story

Looking back, Rogiet was very vulnerable since the village had the main Paddington to Wales railway line to...

WAR TIME MEMORIES IN STANLEY

FATHER:COLLIERY MANAGER MOTHER:HOUSEWIFE BROTHER:ROYAL NAVY SISTER:PIT CANTEEN MYSELF:GRAMMAR SCHOOL...

A Childhood War

On one occassion when dad was working, mum had a nightmare, she was convinced an aircraft was on fire and...

Wartime Memories as a Child - WW2

Our larder would have seemed empty to my children and grandchildren because they would have seen nothing...

Please Send The Curlers

However, David did tell me that when he saw Lewis's Liverpool van parked outside a house in the...

Weddings, washing and war work

Mum looked after the boys while Nell was at the factory... Nell was a very gifted knitter, making all the...

Jacqueline King

All the usual children's games “Sally sits a-weeping”, “Farmer's in his...

Fleeting Images

I had no memories of Dad; he was a photo Mam kept showing me, along with photos of other men in the...

My First Memory

The ‘Doodlebugs’ — flying bombs started in 1944... At my brother's school in...

Evacuation from Bethnal Green,London, 1940

It was not until we reached Cardiff that we finally, after many questions, were told we were heading for...

Machine Gunned in Croydon: Shortages, Sirens, Marooned Cats - and the Tale of the Ice Cream Man

Machine Gunned in Croydon: Shortages, Sirens, Marooned Cats - and the Tale of the Ice Cream Man. In due...

Memories of the Second World War and the effect it had on my Family

My very early memories were when I was just four years old, I was living with my mother Mabel Jarvis and my...

Wartime Memories-Family life

Quite often Mavis and I during the bombing, because Mum was working during the school holidays, used to...

The Story of Mrs Hennigan

In London I had friends that I use to go out with, I used to meet a lady who's husband was in...

The Story of Bevin's Babes: Chapter 2

Austria — the “Austrian Auschluss” - in which several of her family perished, she...

Life in Cheshire during World War II

We didn't get a lot of bombs on Chester; mostly the bombs were for military targets and ports. Evacuee...

A child’s memory - Rita Wills

My father and uncle went into the army and my aunt was given a job in the munitions factory near us, so...

Evacuation and a London Childhood

We left on the Ford Motor Company Jetty, Dagenham on the River Thames. My brothers and I handed up at...

Mr Cooper: Memories of Life in Rushden, Northamptonshire

When I woke on the first morning, the pall of snow showed a spotless, beautiful world, still as a painting,...

Wartime memories of my childhood in Bedford Part 2 - Schooldays at Bedford Modern School and holidays.

We used to go on holiday with tents and on one occasion, the first time in 1944, we, I and a friend...

My War Years

Mother and my sister slepy over night at the factory managers house; dad and I slept on the floor of his...

Marjory's War

However in the Edinburgh and Glasgow regions of Scotland armed conflict from the air commenced on Monday...

War life in Northampton - Joyce Smith

One evening, in full summer evening light, my mother, Freddie the air raid warden, his daughter Joan and...

A Village in Wartime

My mother and father served as Air Raid Wardens and took their turn in manning the telephone in the village...

Memories of War

In Totley my brother Paddy and I used to wander around quite a bit. We were told not to accept sweets from...

The Story of One Who Did Not Evacuate

I think Dad hoped that Mum would move out but we stayed. Her Dad was a GI and when we had no...