Going with my Mum to visit my Dad in Barrhead hospital in Scotland and the train being full of soldiers......
When I was about Six And a bit we lived in London east end and one night some time in 1940 we...
On a different theme, Burslem had four cinemas, the Coliseum, the Palace, the Palladium and, up in Moorland...
My sister Audrey and I were at college together in Essex. A lot of people in the Shelton area went to the...
One spring day in 1941, or so I think, I was playing in Oxenhill Road, Kemsing with several other children,...
We eventually found transport, it was a fish lorry and we travelled to the outskirts of Coventry on it......
On one occasion my mother my sister and I were walking in crocodile fashion with all the rest of the...
We were both very home sick and only stayed a week,my mum mrs edna burton came to collect us both, and took...
Behind our back garden fence was the main rail link between the Channel Ports and Woolwich Arsenal so we...
I went to fetch groceries including eggs One day as I walked down Penkhull bank to Wharf Street I saw two...
We used Earls Court Underground Station as an air-raid shelter... When ever the siren went the air-raid...
In December 1940 my husband, Sid, who was on leave from the army, and I had been visiting his mother in...
Royal Naval Barracks a scene of activity, firemen, rescue workers, digging, probing, somebody remarks...
One night during a particularly heavy period of bombing, my grandfather was out and my grandmother in bed...
I lived in 33 New Street, I always came to the shelter at the Cathedral when there was an air raid, my...
My mum and I lived in Juno Street near to Edge Hill Station in Liverpool, where there was a large...
However, after this had happened once or twice, most of the patients found it so nerve-racking with the...
My parents and I lived in Hayes Middlesex, which had a few factories, which seemed to attract the German...
As a young child, my dad remembers how food was rationed, incuding sweets and fruit.He always laughs when...
We were taken to Ararat Church, Whitchurch Common for the night and next day, taken to Coryton Lodge,...
My father was the Sergeant Mayor of the Home Guard in Crumpsall and my mother was the switchboard operator...
At 3pm Sunday Torquay was attacked by 21 Fokker aircraft, each carrying a 1,000lb bomb and armed with...
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