"My father who had been working in the City for many years — the City of London — and he...
"The Army pay was very little really, I used to get 39 shillings a week, and 17 shillings of that was...
I was at Aldershot, and Bletchley Park part of the time, but I had to resign — the children were...
I used to take it to my mother and she would cook it, and the children thought it was chicken, because my...
"Clothing Coupons, I think we had 26, I can't remember now how long, what period of time that...
In fact they cultivated a Yorkshire accent, Keith more so than Bruce, and they seemed quite settled there....
"Of course, my sister being killed upset my mother very, very much, and also my brother having to leave...
They used to come when they were off duty to the village pub, and, they didn't always have beer there,...
"While I was living in Hayes, before the bomb that affected all the buildings, houses etc. blew all the...
"Well actually the doodlebug thing, was the type of bomb that wounded my sister so badly... But he said...
I mean, he was company secretary to this big company, and he was like a kingpin really. As well as that he...
There was Lord Woolton, he was the Food Minister, and there used to be a pie that we made, and it was...
"One winter we had lots and lots of snow... Lots of snow....
Colonel Buckmaster was my boss. I met and married my husband during the war; he was a colonel doctor in the...