My mother was pianist and assistant dance teacher in her mothers song and dance school somewhere in SE5...
To the reader this sounds not at all like war, there were lighter moments, for instance there was the funny...
One day my uncle, a sergeant in the City of London police, brought home two items - the parachute silk cord...
My father worked as a civilian in an army depot in the north of Portsmouth. I do not remember seeing any...
My story starts well before the 2nd. world war as in 1935 aged 16yrs my parents apprenticed me in the...
However the gentleman came back and said he had got us fixed up in a cottage round the corner in Elms Road,...
Peggy, Tommy, me, and sometimes my mother, would sleep in there... The siren went, I started running down...
I attended school at Rothesay academy in the Junior School, although I had passed the 11+ exam at home, to...
The Morrish dog did not care for Ib and the Morrish child did not care for anybody... At almost-empty...
Here we slept most nights in basic wooden bunk beds with hot drinks served from a thermos.When the interior...
CSM Johnson was a Regular in a county regiment and had spent his time in the pre-war army, gradually...
It burned for almost a week and at night the village was illuminated and it was a beacon for the night...
Later in 1944 we had a blast bomb land on my mates Anderson Shelter, but although his family used it every...
Mrs. Joan Twyman is the wife of a previous Mayor of Margate and Chairman of the Local Council. On the day...
September 1st 1939 today only one school was open in our area, my name is Doreen just 13 – brothers...
Most of the time German planes were coming overhead whilst going to places like London and they often...
Then one day, about three months later, a small brown card arrived in the post, with a short printed...
My brother Jack and I were evacuated to Sittingbourne, which was 8 miles nearer the enemy! My mother was...
At home in Belvedere, Abbey Wood. Sennybridge and Defynnog, South Wales....
One night my cousin Tony and my Auntie Joyce were staying and we were sitting in front of the fire when a...
The Naval authorities, aware of the catastrophe that occurred when an ammunition ship blew uo in the...
I wsn't allowed to be idle during those three weeks, I was made to work in a laundry in Ramsgate...
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