My first memories was at the cubes at camping.When we came home my memories was yong pepole gas mask's...
We used to go looking for shrapnel as trophies, part of German bombs. My house was fairly close to the...
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He told me that every Sunday he would be told to carry out a practice run on his motorbike with a fake...
We had plenty of dance halls in Bedford and the Americans came here... The Co-Partners Hall in Lawrence...
I used to love my books but it was never easy as the light bulbs my father, fire-watcher Fred Hall, had...
During the Clydebank Blitz my dad was fire watching in Glasgow. My mother worried about my dad who was in...
I was living in Wilton's Extent near Pot Hall bridge Heywood, Lancashire. I think it was the Sunday...
But accompaning these were what were called smoke screens, metal containers with a chimney and a flat lid...
This was a great adventure to us both to see the dog fights overhead and aircraft being shot down, the...
In September of 1940, my mother was pregnant and as a child I was saving the cardboard tops off the milk...
We must have removed the black-out blind because the flames were so fierce they lit up our bedroom at...
I was about ten or eleven when I was looking out of the window in the school cloakroom when I saw a...
In 1940 half the Hall was taken over by the Army and after Dunkirk soldiers including Belgians and...
Bessie can remember the soldiers coming to Leadgate and billeted in Eden Miners’ store and the Co-op....
I decided we'd put the first hydrant outside the theatre to protect my rabbits. Two sick berth...
Liverpool was very heavily bombed during the war and eventually we moved to a large house after three of...
I lived on Abbeydale Road during the war and I remember going to the cinema one night on our road. We...
As a child I lived in a bungalow in Abbots Leigh....
As a three year old child, I remember being wakened up — my Gran used to say, “Come on, Hazel,...
We used to go round checking the air-raid shelters to check people were in there and to make sure people...
I was six years old in 1943 and staying with my Grandad and Grandma at their farm, Rectory Farm, Upper...
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