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I was standing on the road outside Earls Colne Grammar School,waiting for the quarter to four school bus to...
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It was such a change from my life living in a tenement flat in London. I returned to London in Easter 1940....
Food was rationed but babies were healthy, fed on cod liver oil and orange juice. ".. Entertainers,...
I have taken my English scholarship exam in an air-raid shelter and I am now living on the other side of...
He served in the 2nd Arm Batt and was the tank driver for Major James Bowes Lyon, who was the queens...
At morning assembly he would wear his red academic gown, signifying his doctorate but during the rest of...
As a child,I remember the siren would go and my mother would put me in my siren suit, which was a suit...
Eventually it became the Fourth Arm of the Services and into uniform, so my life as a...
The BBC would broadcast anti-propaganda saying that V2 rockets had dropped on West London instead of London...
The aircraft had come over Chelmsford where the rocket guns fired at it and set it alight, the guns stopped...
At the time the Germans were dropping mines by parachute but I was less afraid of the Germans and their...
Soon after the V1s started, the marshes towards the coast at Burnham were occupied by numerous anti...
1943 Freda was married and the rationing meant that her wedding dress needed 8 coupons....
I was living with my mother and her family in Colchester, Essex, which is, of course, a short hop from Kent...
In 1940 I was evacuated from Essex to a small village in Oxfordshire called Long Hanborough, fortunately...
Getting into lorries taking sand from local pits at Silver End driven by Irish drivers who drove as fast...
Being near Tilbury there were lots of incendiary bombs dropped to light up the Docks to guide down the...
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