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In 1991 I accompanied George on a trip across Australia from Perth to Sidney in the Gipsy Moth to attend...

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I was orphaned the first year of the war and not long out of Convent High School, I left the tiny Cheshire...

Saving Private Ryan, Alveley and my first Portable Radioicon for Recommended story

Alveley, as with so many small villages throughout the United Kingdom was to be called upon to take part in...

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He was taking his Wellington to RAF Wing near Leighton Buzzard, from there you could catch a train and be...

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Vera Houlston's WW2: Working in a Munitions Factory in Tenbury Wellsicon for Recommended storyicon for Story with photo

However she has previously told me stories of what she did in the war: She grew up in small villages near...

War work in Ellesmere, Shropshire by Gwen Comericon for Recommended story

I worked at an army camp, the Elson Depot, just outside Ellesmere making camouflage nets. One Christmas we...

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We were swimming in the canal when the Spitfire tried to land in the field alongside us. Do not forget that...

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Douglas Smithson - Glider Pilot, Part 6

We had talks from Officers about loads and aspects of flying such as what to do in case of ditching in the...

Memories of a WW2 Evacuee: From Slough to Shropshire

Clive and I used to walk to Tibberton on Sunday afternoon and would go to Sunday School in the church and...

So you want to be a flier - An air gunner's story -Part 1: Chapters 1 to 7icon for Story with photo

The people of the Air Training Corps, the University Air Squadron before we entered the service, our...

A Primary Teacher's Experiences 3

At this time (1944) I was living at home in Essex, and just before Christmas, my stepmother was expecting...

First Casualties and a Lesson Learned

A few months after the accident my mother told us that Auntie Brenda would be coming to live near us in...

Its a Long Way from Hodnet to Italy

There were many girls about in Bedford and one night there was a ‘do’ on at the Dujohns...

Lilly’s Story (Part 2): Finding an International Family in Shropshire

Lilly takes up the story again: Leaving London for Wales I was relatively young and careless but my poor...

Experiences of an NFS messenger boy 1943/4

My dad was stationed at Cross Hill in town whereas the messenger boys were based at Abbotsfield in Sutton...

A SHROPSHIRE BEVIN BOY RECALLSicon for Story with photo

He insisted too that I worked with him on the same coal face so that " I can keep an eye on...

My Time in the ATSicon for Story with photo

On the 15th of January, my brother Victors friend, Peter Savill and my mother travelled with me to Euston...

Railways in Wartime, Weekend Leave and D-Day

Many valleys in Northern England had 2 railway routes running through each valley, those of the L.M.S. and...

Recollections of a Wartime Childhood (Part 3)

In Llanfair and Lloyney our milk was fresh and organic, from the cows which grazed in the local meadows and...

Wartime Boyhood on a Shropshire farm

One of the first contractors in the area lived next door to our school, so I saw some of the first Fordson...

Life as an RAF Pilot: Chapter 3 Back to England

There were no two seated Hurricanes so we had to get familiar with the cockpit and procedures on the...

The Twins Who Were Evacuated to Dawley

She was a ‘maiden lady’ who lived with her mother, so she decided that she would foster; so as...

Worcestershire welcomes Clacton's children.

I was 14 years old and lived at Clacton-on-Sea, on the flight path for German planes heading to bomb...

Recollections of a Wartime Childhood (Part 2)

Whilst there, he met and married his wife Lilian, a nursing sister, who came to live at the Vicarage where...

Life in Madeley and Kemberton

Some mothers, whose homes had been bombed in Liverpool came to Madeley and Kemberton to rejoin their...

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