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Memories of WWII.

The German raids were many and their targets spread, so our locations were all over the country:...

Platform 13 Paddington

I was 20 and living in Windsor, working in the Civil Service where I met my husband at a dance in Victoria...

THE DAY THE DOCKS WERE BOMBED

THE DAY THE DOCKS WERE BOMBED...

That Fatefull Day 20th October 1940

On leaving the station I decided we couldn't go home so I took the boys down to Trent Embankment,...

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WAR TIME SERVICE.

In 1941 I joined the Police Auxiliary Service messenger similar to the ARP warden messenger. Approximately...

Late For Work!

When I was on my way to work from Southend to Fen Church Street in London our train was diverted before we...

The day Dad shot the Post Office

The day Dad shot the Post Office...

Life at Home

One of my most vivid memories was when I was at the weekly Wednesday night dance with my friend who worked...

The Blitz

On September 7th 1940 I travelledfrom my home near Watford to attend the wedding at St Margaret's...

Crime Does Pay

Youngsters view of WW2

I obviously survived that experience, and the next phase of our life was when we had an Anderson air raid...

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Whenever we went to Alexandria, we used to get a barrage balloon and our Captain had an obsession with one...

The Start of the war

My dad was a bus driver based at Walthamstow bus garage and was also a Territorial Army reserve. They lived...

Local Workers bombed at Guernsey Airport

So he was working at the Airport with his friend Bill Anderson, they were eating their lunch, actually,...

Horrible evacuation to Devon

I was evacuated with my three older brothers, Len, John, Ron from our home in Teddington to a place in...

My tube journey to work

Some of the stations that I traveled through had three-tier bunk beds installed on the platforms. People...

Holidays At Home

No alcohol of course, even at the dances, as Kirkintilloch was still a 'dry' town. It was dancing...

Fulbourn Memories

After his death my mother couldn't afford to stay in London so we came to Fulbourn in Cambridgeshire...

Struggling home in wartime

This involved a train to Waterloo in London, a 68 bus to Herne Hill and a No. 3 bus to West Dulwich....

Doodlebug at Quill Bridge

We lived in Norry Road, Putney and the doodlebug landed on an embankment on the corner of Upper Richmond...

APPENDICITIS AND VJ DAY

This hospital had been moved from the docks area of Liverpool for safety reasons to a teacher training...

Bombed out of Hornchurch

In 1944 I was living in Cumberland Avenue, Hornchurch with my two small daughters and my eighty year old...

The Day I Forgot My Gas Mask

At 14 years of age I commenced work at Banstead, Surrey, sewing elements into linings for air crew...

Wartime Anger v Wartime Comaradie

the restrictions of life in London soon became routine, Walking out of the hospital was an adventure in...

A Guernsey evacuee invalided out of nursing tries other employment

Beryl Sebire interviewed by Matt Harvey, Social History Officer, Guernsey Museum. So I had to do something...

Had Hitler known!

The main railway line through Cornwall passes through a longish tunnel just before crossing two viaducts...

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