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Memories from when I was 7

The USA servicemen at Wethersfield Airbase gave an annual party at Christmas for children who's fathers...

A Pilot Takes Time Outicon for Story with photo

Do you recognise the pilot in this photo? He was 56 Squadron and I assume was photographed during a lull in...

Four Pilots Taking a Break- 56 Squadron?icon for Story with photo

Four Pilots Taking a Break- 56 Squadron. Photo discoverd through my late fathers possessions....

R.C.S Wifeicon for Story with photo

R.C.S Wife...

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A Crashed Planeicon for Story with photo

An incident at North Weald airfield 1940-41. Maybe at Duxford....

A Typhoon Awaits Take-officon for Story with photo

109362347319358753723_1.jpglanded_plane.jpgWaiting for take-off, 1940-41....

A Railwayman's War

Doodle Bugs Ihad many close encounters with Doodle-Bugs,Hitler VI Flying Bombs. What woke me up, I...

Rural Essex

I was born in the then rural Essex village of South Woodham Ferrers in 1944 and therefore have no personal...

Great Baddow's Anti-tank Gun

The Village in Wartime Bert Collis — Anti-tank Gun In Great Baddow there was an anti-tank gun...

ATC and After

John Jackson — ATC and after Dad had the garage in Church Street, Great Baddow, and my brother Ted...

Meadgate Landmine

Bangs, Bombs and Blackout Reg Spalding. Reg Spalding wrote of the damage at Meadgate Farm in his journal:...

Ham & Tomatoes

I was aged 13 in 1941/42, and I moved to Epping because we were too close to the Weald Aerodrome... Whilst...

Call up

I worked in an office in a dairy in Baddow Road but when we were 18 all youngsters were called up and...

Plotting 'Friendlies' and 'Unfriendlies'

We used to plot aircraft coming over. We mapped on a big round table on which was a map of the British...

Memories of Time in Land Army West Mersea

Memories of Time in Land Army, West Mersea....

Facing Off the Nazi War-machine

Everyone fled for shelter beneath the stairs, except me who was left alone in my cot to face the spite and...

Being in Trafalgar Square on VE Day

The bomber pilot, Douglas Badar and all of his crew, were just down the road from where I was living in...

WW2 Memories from Hornchurch.

WW2 Memories from Hornchurch. We lived in Hornchurch, Essex....

Brentwood Summer 1940

My brother and I were larking about in a locked car at Brentwood Station when a Dorner dropped bombs which...

Working at Earls Colne Air Field

In about 1941 I worked in the PX canteen at Earls Colne Airfield....

Tilbury at War - Preparing for D-Day

Tilbury was flooded with the army, tanks, everything....

hit and run

Does any one rember the hit .and run raid that shot up the gas works in romford then went on to shoot...

A photograph concerning "Evacuation to the West Country"icon for Story with photo

This picture of the boys with teacher was taken by a newspaper reporter on the occasion when our teacher,...

Evacuated from Chalkwell School, Southend-on-Seaicon for Story with photo

These are the girls evacuated from Chalkwell School, Southend-on-Sea to Smalley, Derbyshire. Shirley and...

VI'S & VII'S - Flying Bombs

Childhood memories from Rayleigh In Essex; The build up to war

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