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My uncle, his accent, and his greetings records

This is a story I began to piece together many years ago from things said by my father, Sydney Brooks,...

War time

We dressed, sung, ate rationed food, made gas mask boxes, did a diary extract imagining we were in...

THE WORST YEARS OF MY LIFE

My wonderful father was enlisted into the army and sent abroad and my two brothers were evacuated to...

Margarets Memories

When war out I was almost 4 years old and my Mum, Maggie, was 7 months pregnant with my brother, Patrick....

Sadler's Wells' opera singer joins ENSA

After the war was over we went back to London and to join Charles and he returned to work at Sadler's...

Eileen Wells' (nee Edwards) War-time Schooling

It was going to be a long journey for me to go to the nearest High School so my mother, back in...

A Boy in the Blitz

Petr went to the same school as me during the war but since he was older than me he was called up...

NFS as a single parent 1940-1943

Lord Furness had vacated his house, Keythorpe in Tugby, and lent it to the NFS for the duration of the war....

Roy's near misses

In 1942 I was working for a local timber merchant in Bellingham SE London, and whilst cycling back from...

My Mothers memories

2: She worked as a bookkeeper/secretary for British Films in the City and travelled there through the Blitz...

Strokes of Luck Which Won the War (Wrenbury Remembers P.44) s

Just then an RAF bomber penetrated to Berlin and dropped a bomb on Hitler's capital... One could cite...

Peoples War: The Blitz, Norfolk

Then I reached up to the table top to where there was a jug of milk and I found a stocking on...

Working At The Admiralty

When Bristol was bombed we all had to stay in the cellar in case planes dropped their bombs when escaping...

A Glimpse of Life as a VAD

We in the Second World War were paid a small salary, lived in the nurses home, had a uniform allowance and...

ww2 memories

My worst memories were during the blitz-when i could hear and see people being killed in the air. in 1941,...

Living in London circa February 1941

We had been warned to be very, very careful shrapnel hunting, and be wary of anything strange, particularly...

Dad's Army

Having served in the 1st World War, my dad wanted to do his bit again soon after the 2nd World War broke...

The Army Service Corps and On Being A Secretary

There for 11 months, and back to Cardiff again, this time as a clerical officer. The main German target was...

Don't have another War!

One was one of the first bombs ever dropped- Brentwood area, Crosby. Incidentally, in Crosby, Waterloo...

When The Balloon Went Up!

Then I was working in London I was living in a hostel owned by Bourne and Hollingsworth — a big store...

Lights Out!

On the formation of the ARP, my grandfather was placed in charge of the Central London area, my father was...

War Scouts and V2'S

We had raids in Potters Bar.My father was a policeman in the City of London force and I remember him coming...

Learning To Jive And Jitterbug

I came back to Tollesbury and worked at the Co-op shop until I got my papers to be called up. Some were...

East Barnet bombing

1941, during one of the last air-raids on London, a German bomber was hit by one of our local AA guns and...

Life in London

I remember standing at the top of the road and a lady came along and said she would 'take me'. I...

Poverty through Channel Isles Invasion

To get to Paddington we took a trolleybus to Hammersmith and the Metropolitan line from there. I have a...