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Wartime memories

It was also my matric year however and many nights were spent 'under the stains' because Bristol...

Wartime Memories and Highlights

Even after that very bad night of bombing, the only thing that worried me was hoping that my mum, brother...

All the Time You Can Hear Them, They're Not for You

- Surviving the Bombing in Central London. There was just mum and me when the flying bombs started we...

My Wartime Years

I had 24hours notice or so to do this and I remember spending two very long and hectic days carrying out...

This is My Story of the War Years

For me I had a boyfriend who flew as a radio operator flying Lancaster bombers and when he came home we...

THREE WEEKS IN THE U.S.A. - PART TWO

I met Helen Anne Mulcahy at the U.J.Club, took her to the cinema, and afterwards home to 1831 Fruit Vale...

World War II - Eileen Parsons remembers, PART 2...

The Sergeant took it to the admin office and placed it on the mantlepiece, still on its nice clean plate...

In the WRENS by Peggy Stoker

Now one of the Wrens had an Aldis lamp and she tried to signal back to the harbour but nobody was picking...

Nursing in Guy's Hospital

A few minutes after the then Prime Minister Chamberlain's announcement, for some unexplained reason,...

A Cyphereen's Story Parts 1-5

Lucy Manley, the Ambassador's secretary, Freddie Lowe and I moved into the Y.W.C.A., which had recently...

MEMORIES OF LONDON IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1939-1945

The air crew trainees who were stationed at St. John's Wood nearby enjoyed coming to the dances as they...

World War II - Eileen Parsons Remembers ......

Arrived at Reception Point, Reading, where I joined nine other girls. Interviewed by a WAAF Officer, one by...

War-Time Shepherd's Bush

During that month, equipped with gas mask and rucksack we were walked to Stamford Brook Station and I ended...

Coincidence

It was now being used to bring service men from New York and Halifax in Nova Scotia to Liverpool to...

'My Uncle the Pawnbroker' by Anne Stone (2nd excerpt)

Every weekend that could be managed mum, dad, George, Chris and I would get on the train and spend the...

Memories of wartime by Lilian Chambers (Later to become Lilian Pidgeon on her marriage to Donald Pidgeon)

I found another job at the London Chamber of Commerce in Cannon Street, which involved travelling from...

Ted's War, Home Guard and before..

They came back a bit desolate, disconsolate, only to find Auntie Soph and Uncle Phil kicking around outside...

My Wartime Experience

Mrs. Pearson and family looked after us really well, I can remember when we arrived at Pulborough station,...

Munitions Factory Life

We were given another assignment in Maltby where a huge armaments factory was being built; this was half an...

The Royal Arsenal and the Light Rescue Squad Volunteers

I started my apprenticeship (1938) in the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich in the carriage Department. We were...

Memories of living in wartime Birmingham

I stayed at Peerless and Ericsson for the remainder of hostilities, but soon migrated to the administrative...

My Father's First and Second World Wars and my first

During the First World War my father served as a midshipman in the Royal Navy, on convoys in the North Sea....

Coincidences

However, by chance I had a brother in the army based in Liverpool who had friend whose father had merchant...

Reminiscences

One lady's first job was in the West End of London where most of the bombs fell. We were all at the...

langholm

My father joined the 6th Battalion of the Cameronians, firstly as Mortar Platoon Commander, then Company...

Living and working in London during WW2 - Part One

Of course I couldn't carry much home because I had to go home on the underground to Morden in South...