Stories categorised in 'Devon'. These stories may contain references to other themes.
The larger ‘Family’ was proudly thought of as a Navy Family living in the City of Plymouth,...
This resulted in Plymouth being a big target for German bombers, and a place where a young boy like me...
The other girl was Sylvia- Mrs Hockeridge's daughter. Roy Marshall had returned to London early so I...
In London I went to school at Greycoats Girls School but not for long for then the bombing started again...
Well, with tinned food rationed for many years - and rarely seeing the tasty sardines - I ate three tins...
"When it was time for us to leave for England the captain under whom I served in the commissary wanted...
Now, there are two mainline stations, and as I'd never been this way before, I picked the nearest, St....
I can't remember how much we earned, but I can recall that as I was only nineteen years of age, I did...
I am David Nix and I spent the early war years living, with my grandmother Mrs Emily Gooder and my aunties...
They sent a second signal, and then a Wren Officer came across in a small launch, with a Wren Coxswain. The...
On a Sunday night, the family were sitting in doors, listening to our old farmer friend Fred Bennett,...
During the war I was evacuated for three years from Croydon to a place called Ifracombe in Devon. We...
She lived in Plymouth and when the city was Blitzed a lot of Plymothians would make their way onto Dartmoor...
When I was 5 being evacuated from Kennington to Devon and before entering the train a label was tied to my...
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