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15 October 2014
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Remembering My Dad, by Jean Nixon (nee Ward)

My mother heard nothing about him until a letter arrived in September 1942 to say that he had been in...

True Love: In Manchester and Durham

The romance with my wife has been going for more than 60 years and was really cemented when as a young...

My Encounter with the King

However,my colonel denied that a train had even stopped at the station.Even though i knew i was not going...

Liquorice Root

She used to get orange juice fromm the Welfare... The 'Welfare' was in the Epworth Methodist...

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Medical Marvel

Aunt Mag had come on a visit to my home in Chester-le-Street. Afer removing the bandages the doctor said...

Life at Home

My father was a carpet weaver at MacKay's factory in Durham. Other members of the family were also...

Life at home

My father was a carpet weaver at MacKay's factory in Durham. Other members of the family were also...

Midnight Train from Darlington to Ferryhill

When we arrived at Ferryhill station from Darlington it was on a very long passenger train....

The Finishing School

I had to pick some kind of war work to do, so I decided to go to the factory in Spennymoor. I...

Childhood Wartime Memories of Fulwell, Sunderland by Mrs Doreen Royal

My husband lived in Denbigh Avenue, Fulwell and was bombed out in August 1940. Hole where bomb landed still...

Do you remember the tank tracks at Stainton Camp?icon for Story with photo

The camp was built at the beginning of World War 2 along with Barford Camp, Humbleton Camp, Streatlam Camp...

Managing Walter Wilsons', Ferry Hill

I was manageress of "Walter Wilson's" all during the war - I was only 20 - the youngest...

School Experiences

After an air raid on the Tyne we went to check on my great aunt and uncle. Margarine was running down the...

Young Boys Memories

So we all jumped up, Dad pulled the curtains, the rest of us checked that all the other windows were...

Evacuation and the Declaration of War

Because of the air-raids June, her Mum and Grandmother were evacuated to the countryside... Her Dad stayed...

Dog Fight at the End of the War

The enemy would come over in Messerscmitts and Stukas and our lads used to try and chase them away. I could...

A Child's View

My father was serving with the RAF, my Aunt's husbandwas in the Army and my unmarried Uncle John was at...

Cold Hesleden Waterworks

The waterworks was such a lovely building, Victorian I think, or maybe pre- Fancy brickwork, round the...

The Bomb and The Baby

There's an unexploded bomb in the washhouse....

Some Mothers Son: Air Raids Over Sunderland

My grandparents lived through ww2 in a mining village outside Durham in the North East of England... There...

A Five Year Old

The gunners living in a nissen hut and handing me my first orange. In darlington a vivid memory of my...

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