Kent

Shelter what Shelter!

At the ripe old age of 4 years my father took me to the jetty at Hythe to take out on an...

I Was One Of Churchill's Immatures

I was in the 5th Battalion Folkestone. Initially, we was deployed in guarding the railway tunnels between...

Why I Became a Pilot

If an airplane crashed it was always the small boys that got their first -not the police. The police came...

Kinloss and Birkhead childhood

The crews of the air-sea rescue boats at Birkhead harbour were billeted in the local area....

Ramsgate's Secret Tunnels

Before the war, I was employed by the County Council in their offices in Aberdeen House, Ellington Road,...

Night Driving Training

I was driving a 30 hundred weight Fordson, with crash gear box, and there was another girl doing her...

Memories

As a child, just turned 14, I watched the small boats going across the Channel and returning to Folkestone,...

Take Cover Under The Tables

I was stationed at Foots Cray in the Old Kolster Brand building dealing with accounts for army personnel. A...

Swimming In Dover Harbour During The First Air Raid

I was in the 5th Battalion, Folkestone....

War memories

Ron Cox was five at the time of this story and is now 68. He had just started infant September 1942 school...

Cave Dwellers in Dover

I live in Dover and we all slept in caves... One night a Bomb landed just outside the cave and we were...

Dogfights through the weald of Kent

I remember the dog fights through he weald of Kent between the river Medway and the Eden....

Beaver Road

In March 1943, Ashford suffered the worst bombing of any town in Kent. Many roads were hit by bombs and the...

MP in canterbury

My fathers cousin wast a military policeman in canterbury. He used to chop down telegraph poles and sell...

Photograph - Royal Artillery, Mixed Heavy Ack Ack.

Photograph - Royal Artillery, Mixed Heavy Ack Ack. This photograph goes with the memories of Ruth Hamilton...

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World War Two

Duchess of Kent

The Duchess of Kent visiting HMS Royal Arthur....