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15 October 2014

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Stories contributed by Âé¶¹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Open Centre, Hull

A Time to Remember
A Thoroughly Disabled War Or I was Britainâ€™s Secret Weapon
Blazer to Battledress
Wartime Memories Taken From â€˜ Wartime Memoirsâ€™
Wartime Memories
My Story: On a London Barge off Normandy
My Memories
When Ships Are Lost
Life on the Home Front: In Hull
A Daylight Raid: In Hull
Jerry Bomber Blues
Ada The Braider
Another Time, Another Place
The Schoolboy and the Rebel
CRICKET VERSUS LUCKY STRIKES
The One Banana Banquet
The Night The Bombs Dropped
Loss of LJ888 Over Norway
Where's my Mam
The Bombing of Lincoln
An Evacuee at Eight
A Life of Graft and Service
From Hull Evacuated to Burton-on-Trent
VE Night - Rotherham
A Long Wait for My Wedding
When Custard wasnâ€™t quite Custard!
Prisoner on Crete
Crete stopped Germany Winning the War
The Bombing of Lincoln, 1941
Growing up in Wooler Avenue, North Shields
Wooler Avenue Victory Fete
Air-mail letter from Australia
VE Day celebrations in Steinbergen, Germany
Battle Ships
German Spy/Agent/Ambassador in Montevideo
Air Raid Shelter in The Garden
V.E. Day card from Germany
Wooler Avenue takes a Direct Hit
Letter from the King
The Corporal
The Blitz on 17/18th May 1942 over Hull
When the Bombing Got Serious. The Blitz.
Hull. Memories of the Blitz
Grandma Seward and Aunt Eva
Poem found in the pocket of an American Soldier in 1944
Poem entitled Our Island Home
Poem 'Don't lock up your Love' by George Smith
Poem 'That Distant Isle' by George Smith
Poem entitled 'Price of Freedom' by George Smith. Written during WW2
Poem.' Men of Courage' , written during WW2 by George Smith.
Poem 'Untitled' by George Smith, Written during WW2
'Two's Company'. A short story.
War Memories of Frederick Oliver of Hull
The plane shot at us on Hessle Road
God Bless them All
OK you can Join Up George
The Holiday Camp that was Sunk?
Risking the bombs to come back to Hull
A Little Girl in Hull
No you canâ€™t go to the party girls
Someone Stole my Books
Ratings of HMMS Wyoming
The Crew of HMSS Wyoming including the Officers
A Brief Resume of the Army Service of Margaret Ashman
Discharge Paper
Poem entitled 'Danger Gas'
Poem entitled 'Malta' by George Smith
Married (eventually) in Beverley Minster
When Custard wasnâ€™t quite Custard!
'The Zepp'
Poem entitled 'We shall not Forget' by George Smith
'Dunkirk - a Tribute' A Poem by George Smith
'My Grandad' - A Poem by George Smith
Being Bombed Out Of Bed
Snow Sculptures in Withernsea
Steak with the Panda Division
'One Girls Story'
Broadcasting the war
Not So Safe a Combination?
Harry and his Military Medal Citation
Ken's Wedding 1941 before Tragedy Struck
Marriage in 1943
Our American Allies
Early Memories of the War in Hull
Paying respect and making friends in Hull
Memories of a Young Child During and After the War
Prisoner on Crete
Crete stopped Germany Winning the War
Very Young Memories of the War from North Hull
A Hull Boy who Survived and Stayed
The Flying Bomb over Hull
Fire on Beakney Street in Hull
Too Far to Cycle
From Hull to School in a Scawby Mill Pub
If Youâ€™ve Never Known Anything Else as a Child the War was Just Normal
A Blast In Willerby, Hull 1941
Evacuated to Rawcliffe near Goole
Horrendous Bombing in Hull
From Battleships to VE Day in Queens Gardens Hull
A Childâ€™s War from Hull to North Yorkshire and Back
Kedah
Carrying Lord Wavell from Singapore by ship
Prisoners of War Singapore
Back to Singapore
Evacuation of Family and School Children
My 2nd Birthday May 8th 1945 (VE Day)
Meandering through wartime memories
A Hull Schoolboyâ€™s Memories during WW2
My experience in the bomb blitz on Hull May 7th/8th 1941
WHAT THE `ELL ARE YOU DOIN` `ERE?
Poem 'A Silent Prayer' by George Smith
Poem 'Egytian Holiday' by George Smith
Poem 'The Dawn Patrol' by George Smith
Poem 'Under the Libran Sun' by George Smith
Poem 'The 50th 'N' Division.by George Smith
Poem by George Smith entitled 'September, 15th 1940'
'Hull House Burnt Down by Barrage Balloon'
'God Bless the Kids'
Prisoners of War at Aldborough.
'It was just the Norm'
Memories of my Evacuation
Wartime Memories of Lt. Commander Norman Yates 1939-1948. Episode 1
Wartime Memories of Lt. Commander Norman Yates 1939-1948. Episode 2
Wartime Memories of Lt. COmmandewr Norman Yates. 1939-1945 Episode 4
Wartime Memories of Lt. Commander Norman Yates 1939-1945 Episode 5
Wartime Memories of Lt. Commander Norman Yates 1939-1945 Episode 3
Crossing to France
Brothers at The Battlefields of France
VE Day Memories of Catherine Patience (then 2052476 LACW Catherine Raddings WAAF)
V E Day Memories of Christopher N. Hobson (then Lieutenant CN Hobson, Durham Light Infantry)
V E DAY MEMORIES of Joyce Try
V E DAY memories of Harry Thompson
V E Day memories of Albert James
V E Day Memories of Bill Guest
V E DAY memories of Herbert Thompson (4th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment)
V E Day memories of Michael Walker
Protected by the French Resistance
Beyond Prisoners in Dunkirk
Joining up aged 18
Mixed Memories of World War 2
Bullets and a Tansad
Bomb Damage- Nosey
Stubborn
Queensâ€™ Garden Fountain
V E Day in Hope Street
V E Day Memories of Mrs. Martin
V E Day Memories of Stuart Carr
V E Day Memories of Len Winter (then 14497795 Private Winter, Royal Ordnance Corps)
V E Day memories of Mrs Merial J Dunn
VE Day Memories of Able Seaman 'Dodger'
V E Day Memories of Donald Robson (then 1686684 Leading Aircraftman Robson, RAF)
V E Day Memories of Ken Thorley
V E Day Memories of A 'Country Woman'
V E Day Memories of Allan Curtis
V E Day Memories of Iris Newbould nee Faulkner
Memories of Jim Hugill
V E Day memories of Judy Gray
V E Day Memories of Maureen Chapman
V E Day Memories of Mr Lyon
V E Day Memories of Mrs Kathleen Jarvis
V E Day Memories of Muriel Berzins
Poem by Bob Freeman
Roland Mitchell (then 89064 Private Mitchell, RASC and POW no. 4714)
Memories of Jill Jones - nee Dickens
Miss W -ID number JCFA1565
Memories of Mr P. Calvert
Memories of Pauline Storr nee Turner
Memories of Rod Mackey
Memories of Wendy R.M.Usher-Bacon nee George
Dorothy Taylor
Memories of Malcolm Burnett
Memories of H Ross
Hilda Reed nee Sparrow
Keith Moody (aged 11 on VE Day)
Mr A Hobson (then RAF)
Berna Moody (aged 9 on VE Day)
Edgar Bielby (then 2nd Bn Green Howards)
George Cooper
Memories of Harry Flynn
Mr C.M. McCallie (then 7375545 Sergeant, Second Division)
Cryril Smiths Story
Dad's Missing Trousers
My Life Through The War
The Police Auxilliary Messenger Service - The 'Pams'
Messages for Candy.
A Family Photograph 1940
Auxillery Fire Service
Evacuated â€” Until The Bombs Began Falling On Hull
Hullâ€™s Last Incendiary?
Guns, Girls, Clocks, Bombs & Floorboards
â€œGod give me choleraâ€
All at sea with the Royal Artillary
My Lost Birthday
My nightmare teenager years
Milk Jug on the Table
Sportsman Pub. Hedon Road. Hull.
Dancing at the Trades and Labour Club.
Despatch Rider
On Manoeuvres
The Ferret
Gock Germany
Machine gunned whilst swimming in the sea
'My War Time'
The Diary of Norman G. Craft
'Wounded near Reichwell Forest, Germany, 1945'
D Day - 2. Set off for France.
'1942-43...Detention at Stake Hill, Rochdale'
Memories of a Tankie
The Doodlebug and the Ditch
War Stories from East Hull
London Evacuee
Poem entitled 'I'm Home Again'
Poem entitled 'Remember Me'
Poem 'The Pals Go to War'
War Time Call Up
"We'll Need You Chaps in the Autumn"
"From Burma with Love"
The Pig in the Pram
Cod Liver Oil (Seven Seas)
'Bombs and machine guns hit Holderness Road.
A Long Walk to School
'Queen Bee'
Weddings, Rubble and Beer
MUCH LAUGHTER
Childhood Memories of World War 2
The Guns had no Bulletts!
Wartime memories of Iris Easton
Gas Attack on Hull
Bombed on leave
Memories of the war
Little Murial's Story
Coincident
Brendaâ€™s Memory 1
Brenda's Memory 2
Brendaâ€™s Memory 3
Brendaâ€™s Memory 4
Two Memories of the War-time Blitzes on
Food Rationing in Beverley
Dambusters
Memories of the Blitz on Hull
Day to day life in wartime Hull (part 1)
Day to day life in wartime Hull (part 2)
"Put that bloody light out!"
21st birthday - 2 days left
Anyone know a good sweep?
Machine gun raid on Pickering Park
I Joined The Army to See The Sea
D-Day, Fags and Chewing Gum
My 2Â½ Years In The Land Army
Bombs, Dances and Good Fortune
The war at home
Raid on the Firth of Forth
War Memories of Brenda Shaw...Bradbrooks have Bananas!
War Memories of Brenda Shaw 'Custurd Cream Biscuits'
War Memories of Brenda Shaw. 'Freckles'
Wartimes Memories of Brenda Shaw. 'Childhood Memories'
'Coincidence'
Memories of Jack Martin. 'Our Unsung Heroes-Lasting Impressions'
More Memories of Lasting Significance by Jack Martin
Poachers and Bikes
Coastwatching in Filey
Dad's Clay Pipe
Thunder under the Stairs
Bail out Over Belton
Evacuees in Bridlington
Hull to Heslington, an Evacuees Story.
My First Ice-Cream
Worth a Smack?
Evacuation to Country Life in Great Ouseburn
The Russian Convoys - Part 2
The Russian Convoys - Part 1
The Little Ships - Part 2
The Little Ships - Part 1
The streets that we played in...
Wartime in the tailoring trade
The psychological impact of the war upon a young evacuee
Experiences as an evacuee: 1940-1943
Rice Pudding, Bananas and Bombs
Raids over Hull
'Snakes Alive'
A Bedtime Story
An Evacuee in Yorkshire
The Way We Met
Looking Back Part 1
Looking Back Part 2
Looking Back Part 3
The Blitz in Exeter in 1942
West London war time schooling
HM LCT 943, MMLCT 2487 and HMS Berwick
Air Raid Precautions Ambulance Service
Royal Navy and HM Submarine Service
Protecting the Russian Convoy
A father away for the birth of their children
Evacuees in Yorkshire
Memories of VE Day Celebrations
Recollections of the Wartime Navy by Albert Lister
'A night in the Anderson Air Raid Shelter'
Far Away Places with Familiar Faces.
A Schoolgirl's Wartime Memories of Hull
Sandakan P.O.W
'They Just Didn't Know Any Better' (P.O.W of the Japs.)
Random recollections of the Hull Blitz
My Six Years of Life as an Evacuee
The Waste of War (A Glider Pilot's Story)
Japanese Surrender and Point Duty
Cinnamon and Air Raids in Hull
Wartime Reminiscences of Holderness by Mr.Ray Rands
Wartime Reminiscences of Holderness by Mr. Ray Rands, Part Two
Wartime Reminiscences of Holderness by Mr. Ray Rands
Harry Baker's Journal
Unlucky Thirteen!
Ghostly Apparitions
Broken Glass
A German POW in Britain - Part 5
A German POW in Britain - Part 4
A German POW in Britain - Part 3
A German POW in Britain - Part 2
A German POW in Britain - Part 1
Wartime Memories of Mary Barrett of Dunswell
Harry Bakerâ€™s Journal Part 2. Extracts from the Journal of 1429538 Gunner Thomas Henry Baker - Royal Artillery, of Hull
Hull Blitz
Hull Blitz from the Preston Battery
Butterfly Bombs in Pasture Street, Cleethorpes
American movie stars in Cleethorpes!
Never Mind the Bombs What About My Ironing!
The last two evacuees in Belbroughton
Prisoners on the march
Polish troops in Bridlington
FIDO - Carnaby's faithful watchdog (Part 2)
FIDO - Carnaby's faithful watchdog (Part 1)
War Comes to Gringley-on-the-Hill.
Siege of Imphal (Kipper Box) - Part 3
Siege of Imphal (Kipper Box) - Part 2
Siege of Imphal (Kipper Box) - Part 1
Peace In War
The trouble with airfields
Invaders at Carnaby
A Lone German Bomber
My War - 1939 to 1945
EVACUEE -WORLD WAR II (Part 2)
EVACUEE -WORLD WAR II (Part 1)
Extracts from the Journal of 1429538 Gunner Thomas Henry Baker
Poem written by Hilda Naylor
No Rollers in the Shelter. (Hull in the Blitz)
MEMORIES FROM GERT PRIES
Long Day at School - lasting 4 years!
I Guess They Just Wanted Jam On It
A North East Town
War in Hull
Tea from a Jam Jar (A WAAF's Story)
The Rosetree & The Eagle (Part 1 of 5)
The Rosetree & The Eagle (Part 2 of 5)
The Rosetree & The Eagle (part 3 of 5)
The Rosetree & The Eagle (part 4 of 5)
The Rosetree & The Eagle (part 5 of 5)
Hurricanes over Singapore
Flying Skeleton
Dogs of War
Ever wondered why the War Department made their loo-rolls so tough?
Loud Enough To Wake The Dead
A NORTH EAST TOWN
My Mum
I Guess They Just Wanted Jam On It
My Great Grandfather
Uncle Jack
John Comins
The D-Day Veteran
The Map Plotter
Bathtime in Welwick
Working the radar in Doodlebug Alley
An English Boy In Hamburg
Danger Trek To Freedom
Banjolele-- War Travels of Father in Law
My Memories of War Years
Harry Bakerâ€™s Journal Part 3. Extracts from the Journal of 1429538 Gunner Thomas Henry Baker - Royal Artillery, of Hull
Harry Bakerâ€™s Journal Part 4. Extracts from the Journal of 1429538 Gunner Thomas Henry Baker - Royal Artillery, of Hull
The Duke of the Riverside Quay
Frederick Fisher in Mystery Picture
Lost & Found
One Childâ€™s War
Memories of Hull During WW2
The Air Raid Siren
Fallen Angel
Scouting in the war years
V.E. Day in Manchester
Journey home on leave
'Failed to Return'( A 625 Squadron Bomber Crew.)
Childhood Memories of Eric Pepper
The Army Cadets Marching Band
Admiralty tanks for D-Day
Evacuated office workers
Going to Canada as a war bride
On leave in 1942
On leave in 1941-42
Schooldays in Hull's Blitz.
Dadâ€™s Donkey
The Day Before My Capture
My Last Day and Night on the Front Line
Heads it's Trawlers, Tails the Merchant Navy
Uncle George's War
Lost 1940's - Found 1990s
Heavy Water
Unhappy Landing
D-Day Loss
William Fenry Hird Lind aboard the minesweeper Hussar
Lost at Sea
My Grandmother - True Hero
Lost at Dunkirk
The Bombing of the Roberts Family
Victim of Tuberculosis
Information Officer Broadcasts - No.1
Information Officer Broadcasts - No.2
Information Officer Broadcasts - No.3
Information Officer Broadcasts - No.4
Information Officer Broadcasts - No.5
Information Officer Broadcasts - No.6
Information Officer Broadcasts - No.7
Information Officer Broadcasts - No.8
Information Officer Broadcasts - No.9
Information Officer Broadcasts - No.10
Information Officer Broadcasts - No.11
Information Officer Broadcasts - No.12
Information Officer Broadcasts - No.17
Information Officer Broadcasts - No.13
Information Officer Broadcasts - No.14
Information Officer Broadcasts - No.15
Information Officer Broadcasts - No.16
Aboard the Empire Capulet
Sightseeing WRENS on the Suez
Skipper's Special Balloon
S.S. Jan Lievens
Gadget for Governors
Beware the Taxi Dance
Bill Brears
Riding the barrage balloon
'Fight for the Fuhrer, fight to the last man.'
My War
Frank Peebles War
St Johns Brigade and Civil Defence 1939 - 1945
Germany in 1945
The things I used to eat when I was young
Chewing Gum in the Hull Blitz
Saved by the flu
DFC for Hull Pilot
MTBs in Wincolmlee
Mud in your eye
Memories of an Evacuee - Mr. Roy Cook
The Way The Lancastria Was Sunk
Tex Smithâ€™s War part 6 - Prune Pie
Tex Smith's War part 5 - The New Arrival
Tex Smithâ€™s War part 4 - Moonlight Vision
Tex Smithâ€™s War part 3 - A Evacuee in South Ferriby
Tex Smithâ€™s War part 2 - The Air Raid Siren
Tex Smithâ€™s War part 1 - The Handkerchief
'Spurn Army'
MEMORIES OF THE WAR - 1939-45
The Flying Spaniel
Seconds From Death
Grimsby Flyer Wins DFM
The Alexandra Hospital Massacre
Title: D-Day Bombing Mission
Vera the Virgin
Toddler in Scunthorpe
Brooklyn to Burma

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