In 1941 I joined the Police Auxiliary Service messenger similar to the ARP warden messenger. Approximately...
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...
One of my most vivid memories was when I was at the weekly Wednesday night dance with my friend who worked...
On September 7th 1940 I travelledfrom my home near Watford to attend the wedding at St Margaret's...
I obviously survived that experience, and the next phase of our life was when we had an Anderson air raid...
Whenever we went to Alexandria, we used to get a barrage balloon and our Captain had an obsession with one...
My dad was a bus driver based at Walthamstow bus garage and was also a Territorial Army reserve. They lived...
So he was working at the Airport with his friend Bill Anderson, they were eating their lunch, actually,...
I was evacuated with my three older brothers, Len, John, Ron from our home in Teddington to a place in...
Some of the stations that I traveled through had three-tier bunk beds installed on the platforms. People...
No alcohol of course, even at the dances, as Kirkintilloch was still a 'dry' town. It was dancing...
After his death my mother couldn't afford to stay in London so we came to Fulbourn in Cambridgeshire...
This involved a train to Waterloo in London, a 68 bus to Herne Hill and a No. 3 bus to West Dulwich....
We lived in Norry Road, Putney and the doodlebug landed on an embankment on the corner of Upper Richmond...
This hospital had been moved from the docks area of Liverpool for safety reasons to a teacher training...
In 1944 I was living in Cumberland Avenue, Hornchurch with my two small daughters and my eighty year old...
At 14 years of age I commenced work at Banstead, Surrey, sewing elements into linings for air crew...
the restrictions of life in London soon became routine, Walking out of the hospital was an adventure in...
Beryl Sebire interviewed by Matt Harvey, Social History Officer, Guernsey Museum. So I had to do something...
The main railway line through Cornwall passes through a longish tunnel just before crossing two viaducts...