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Evacuation: From Wimbledon to Barstaple and Boston

I stayed there a year and then the house was struck by a bomb and I was returned to London after which...

Sinking the Tirpitz: An Armourer at RAF Waddington

James Gomer Mumford, now aged 93, was on night duty as an Armourer when the lone Lancaster bomber he...

No Escape from the Bombing

My father was the air raid warden and was killed in the bombing. In 1944 the Hemswell Airfield was bombed...

The Lighter Side of the Blackout

My grandparents, especially my grandfather, used to enjoy telling this story to me when I was a child......

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Memories of a Landgirl

Learning to milk shorthorns and to drive a tractor was quite exciting especially when I got stuck in a...

A.R.P. Decontaminationicon for Story with photo

Photograph of the A.R.P. Decontamination Section at Aveling-Barford Grantham Lincolnshire....

Cakes

Doris remembers having to go to Mrs Dale's cake shop and choose one cake with her ration book... Doris...

Celebrating VE Day

We all dressed up as children and my mother made up an outfit for me so that I could go as John...

Horse in Friskney

Mr Roughton owned the Grange in Friskney - Doris worked for Mr Roughton at the Grange. One day Doris was...

Kenway Bungalow

Patricia in 1939 was 18 months old and with her family went on holiday to Chapel St Leonards to stay in...

Heavy Duty Petrol

Mother would meet him in the car to collect a jerry can of fuel off the boat. Jerry can was put into...

End of War Celebrationsicon for Story with photo

The newspaper article is a reprint of he celebrations after the end of the war; all celebrations always...

Home

It was one evening when George and I were drinking in The Cock at Olney that we decided we ought to start...

Your Story

I was on holiday with my sister, Holly, in Harrogate when war was declared and we were rushed back to our...

Manna from heaven

A recent article on the ..... when the problems on this website are fixed it will be possible to submitt...

is from my brother in lawwho is unable to use a computor.

cooks tour

Did you go on a cooks tour? if so please get in touch....

Manna from heaven

My Mother's War

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Lincoln Wartime 1943...

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