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Mr. Spence's Life in World War 2

They lived in wooden huts.There was also dry toilets and a horse and cart picked up the sewage once a...

Air Raid Warning Red!

When enemy aircraft were approaching the area the exchange was alerted by telephone with the message...

Somebodies Son

My dad said to be carefull it could be a German who balied out from a crashed plane. My dad picked up...

Destroyer Escort

On the return journey from Belfast we had a destroyer escort crossing the Irish Sea to Liverpool. I still...

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Story of an Evacuee

Alexander Wilson is 68 now and this is a long,long time ago when he was 4... So Alexander had to get...

Glady's Story- As Told by the Children of Strand Primary school

Gladys had an uncle called James... He was very glad that day that he had his bible in his pocket.when he...

Memories of Childhood: Belfast "Nissan Huts", as told by Lynda Heronicon for Story with photo

My mother had ten children, and during the blackouts she had to gather all of her children up and run up to...

June Martins Memories of a Belfast Childhood during WW2 (toys)

Most of my toys were inherited from Moore, my brother, who 6 years older than I, had been given a new...

Farm Life In Ballycastle During WW2

An evacuee boy from Belfast worked on a neighbouring farm, but stayed in my granny's house. When the...

Belfast Air Raid Duties

My father, James Millar, was employed at the John Kelly coal yards in Belfast docks all of his working...

Defenders of Portrush

Steven was only eleven years old in 1942 when his mother decided that he and his four brothers should move...

The Home Guard is disbanded

Maynard Sinclair, who was then in the Ulster Govt, came and addressed everybody and thanked them all for, I...

The Factory Horn

In the quiet little village of Castledawson most of the villagers were employed in the linen factory of J.A...

Missing Presumed Drowned

We lived at Ligoniel and used to take shelter in the 'coal hole' during the air-raids... I worked...

St Johns Ambulance

One night we were home when we heard Dublin was bombed... They thought they dropped the bombs in the water...

The Intruder by Bernard MC Cormack

My father and me were driving back to the city form Ardmore, we had just arrived at Thompson's Corner...

Playing with Fire

Sometime in 1943 three of us young lads went into the local woods in Castledawson to collect some firewood....

American Air Force at Langford Lodge

As a small child living in a Co Antrim village, called Crumlin, close to Langford Lodge in Northern...

Lana Smith's Butter Song

Chorus: Everybody pinches my butter, They won't leave my butter alone, And nothing is better than...

My Wartime Memories

They came in D's and E's and E was twice the value of D. Each month there was an announcenent of...

Interned

Michael worked as an apprentice machinist in the belfast shipyard at the outset of the second world war......

Ballyhackamore

During the war I lived in 23 Housten Street Ballyhackamore with my mother, and two brothers... As my mother...

War Memories of Air-Raid Shelters

Mr.Steed lived in a terraced house with no back garden so he had to go in an air raid shelter. The airraid...

Wellington

Mother Margaret and father George senior, grandmother Emily and grandfather Wellington, called after the...

Family Reunion

Nan Hatton's family home was in Mountnorris, Co... An Australian Air Force member — she thinks he...

June Martins Memories of a Belfast Childhood during WW2 (the refugees)

3 THE REFUGEES After the Blitz, which killed and injured so many in Belfast there were even more people...

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