Mary became friends with an evacuee Ann Johnson who stayed during the war years with Colonel Fargus at The...
In the spring of 1941 there were many German bombing raids on Cardiff... Mr Joshua grabbed the bomb rushed...
This is a memoir written by Mr.Brandon Jewell and typed by Annette Jones of Neath Port Talbot Libraries and...
It took 2 months to reach northern Burma, on a captured German banana boat, sailing in convoy from Glasgow,...
We had luggage labels on, and I took a teddy with safety pins stuck in him - I was allowed to buy...
The following day a few friends and I went in to town and walked around, so did thouands of others, it was...
Mam's sister and Dad's sister were bridesmaids and their dresses were made by a neighbour... Mam,...
My nan's memories as told to me, her grand daughter, Sarah... By the way, grandad was stationed then in...
The people living next door who were welsh suggested my mum and my brother and I go down to wales and stop...
We were taken to Ararat Church, Whitchurch Common for the night and next day, taken to Coryton Lodge,...
When we arrived home everything was in a terrible mess, windows blown out, soot from the chimney all over...
On the morning of 1st Oct 1940, I did what I always did and that was to go and knock on my...
At Christmas time we were lucky to have an orange and apple and a little doll and a few sweets as...
My Nana lived in Port Talbot and she didn't get evacuated... Arthur who was my nana's brother was...
I was born on 20th June 1932 in The Mothers Hospital for Women at Clapton, after my birth I was sent to...
One day Derek asked my mother for a piece of cake in his Kent accent which sounded to me quite terrible. I...
In 1939 I was an eight-year old schoolgirl, having progressed from Mixed Infants to Big Girls at Holton...
They spent the entire next day sieving every bit of rubble into a brick compound that they'd built in...
My grandparents kept a large public house called "Fultons" on Oxford Street, opposite the market at...
At the Glascoed Munitions Factory. This contribution is posted by Torfaen Libraries on behalf of Evelyn...
We ate a lot more fruit back then, seasonal ones of course like apples, damsons, plums and so on....
Howver we were able to observe what was happening over Cardiff. This was the nearest that we came to any...
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