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One Child's War Part 1 School Bells and Sirens by Elizabeth Chapman (nee Goodwin)

It was absolutely obligatory to carry them with you all the time, and woe betide any child who arrived at...

One Child's War Part 2 A New House in War-time by Elizabeth Chapman (nee Goodwin)

Food rationing had now become compulsory and Mother, in common with every other British “Mum”,...

One Child's War Part 3 Blitzes and Bombshells by Elizabeth Chapman (nee Goodwin)

It was generally assumed that the Germans were attempting to bomb the Stockport railway viaduct, which was...

One Child's War Part 4 A School at War by Elizabeth Chapman (nee Goodwin)

It appeared that early that morning, after the air-raid which we had had the previous night, a German...

One Child's War Part 5 A Wartime Country Holiday by Elizabeth Chapman (nee Goodwin)

With summer term ending at school, the August date soon arrived, which saw both of us carrying suitcases...

One Child's War Part 6 The Evacuees by Elizabeth Chapman (nee Goodwin)

Along with evacuees from London came a number of people from the Channel Islands... Another Guernsey...

One Child's War Part 7 A Family at War by Elizabeth Chapman (nee Goodwin)

One of her grandchildren, one of my cousins, was in the A.T.S.. She drove “top brass” military...

One Child's War Part 8 The End of the War by Elizabeth Chapman (nee Goodwin)

That evening in London, Winston Churchill, our great war-time Prime Minister, addressed the crowds that had...

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