Aunt Mag had come on a visit to my home in Chester-le-Street. Afer removing the bandages the doctor said...
My father was a carpet weaver at MacKay's factory in Durham. Other members of the family were also...
My father was a carpet weaver at MacKay's factory in Durham. Other members of the family were also...
When we arrived at Ferryhill station from Darlington it was on a very long passenger train....
I had to pick some kind of war work to do, so I decided to go to the factory in Spennymoor. I...
My husband lived in Denbigh Avenue, Fulwell and was bombed out in August 1940. Hole where bomb landed still...
The camp was built at the beginning of World War 2 along with Barford Camp, Humbleton Camp, Streatlam Camp...
I was manageress of "Walter Wilson's" all during the war - I was only 20 - the youngest...
After an air raid on the Tyne we went to check on my great aunt and uncle. Margarine was running down the...
So we all jumped up, Dad pulled the curtains, the rest of us checked that all the other windows were...
Because of the air-raids June, her Mum and Grandmother were evacuated to the countryside... Her Dad stayed...
The enemy would come over in Messerscmitts and Stukas and our lads used to try and chase them away. I could...
My father was serving with the RAF, my Aunt's husbandwas in the Army and my unmarried Uncle John was at...
The waterworks was such a lovely building, Victorian I think, or maybe pre- Fancy brickwork, round the...
There's an unexploded bomb in the washhouse....
My grandparents lived through ww2 in a mining village outside Durham in the North East of England... There...
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