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21st birthday - August 1940

I bought a cutlery set for my parents 25 wedding anniversary. Every time the sirens went out my mum put the...

War Memories

I remember my mum buying furniture and I had to run errands to buy the fruit. We used to have to queue...

Brothers

My brother - Arnold - ran back to help... My brothers did send photographs and letters back to us but it...

Life and Marriage during the War

I went to the dancing in Paisley... He was in the artillary and went to the Anzio Beach....

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Special gifts from abroad

My husband was away at war and he used to send me lovely things from abroad — nylon stockings with...

A Wartime Childhood

I was born at 47, Balby road,Doncaster,Yorkshire. The son of William Kennnett, a schoolteacher at...

3 piece suite

Nellie was Patrick's mother and someone who would not be in debt... But Nellie did not want to take the...

My new husband called up

I started working in 1943 in the Co-op grocery until my husband was demobbed in 1946. I was very lucky...

The Tragedy of War

Jack got engaged just before going off to war, he was the most friendly, nicest person you could imagine......

Hilda Ross' Story

A neighbour on leave from the Navy, asked me if I would go to a dance at the Carlton Ballroom in Rochdale....

Remember that You're A Brummie!

My Gran was a Catholic and my mum was a Protestant — dad switched when it came to school — we...

VE Day Street Parties

As a teenager I remember the wonderful street parties and the euphoric atmosphere with the flags and...

Chocolate

When sweets first went on ration, my father put away some Cadbury's Milk Chocolate in the loft and when...

Like father, like son

After being billeted in France in 1940, my brother Alf came home on leave... In later correspondence the...

Looking for a Lost Relative

Looking for a Lost Relative...

My Grandads experience in World War 2

My Grandad served in the world war for a long time but he didnt do the killing he was part of some...

Two on a bike in Bicester, as told by Ronald Haynes!

Two on a bike in Bicester, as told by Ronald Haynes. Ted Goble was a Special Constable and on duty over...

My Two Auntsicon for Story with photo

My aunt, Linda Hibberd is on the right. She died crossing a level crossing whilst working driving a lorry...

Banana sandwiches

My mother had two young boys as evacuees and they loved her banana sandwiches which she made by boiling...

Only Bomb in Hereford

It was the only bomb that dropped in Hereford....

A family in Hyde

I was living in Hyde all this time, and I remember the air raids well... And once two bombs dropped in...

Alfreton 1941`

One night in 1941 bombs dropped on Alfreton. Mr Olen Renshaw of Prospect Street, Alfreton was killed on...

U-Boat at Nevis

I was stationed in Nevis, an island next to St Kitts in the West Indies. One day the local doctor came to...

War Teenager

I was a lad during the war... We used to grow our own stuff, get permission to kill our own pig for...

Hand - me - downs

I was the youngest of 7, Irene, Marjory, Jack, Wilfred, Lavender, Trevor... I was a whipping block for them...

Coventry

My Auntie who lived in Coventry was in bed one night when an incendiary bomb through the roof, she jumped...

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