International Friendships

War Time Memories of a Small Boy

In my Class at Bolt Street School we had a group of Dutch children. Food was rationed so most people grew...

School at Burton Bradstock

About the same time I was standing on the bridge of Burton Bradstock next to the playing field and my...

Tanks and Thanks

I can remember my mum Freda, who accompanied me on the one mile walk to Colton Church of England village...

American Troops In Bessbrook 1940's

They came to train on the hills and mountains around the village.They were billeted in the Town Hall, the...

I Was a Number Taker

As a young girl during the war I remember going to dances with my friend Annie to the Futurist, which was...

Mike and Grace Birbeck

Home memories My father was the Civil Defence Controller for the Chepstow area; he had an office in the...

A Factory Girl

Every nationality - American, Canadian, Polish, Australian, New Zealand, Free French could be met at the...

A Long Friendship Part 3

Vic and I went to Lotte's and Richard's Golden Wedding in Bremen and not to be out done by Lotte, I...

Life as an Evacuee in North Wales by Mr D J Waller

I was evacuated with my brother in 1944 from Hornchurch to Pen-y-cae, near Wrexham in North Wales. When we...

Audrey's Wartime Adventures -Part 3 : Torquay Station - the Night in the Jeep 1944

Audrey's Wartime Adventures -Part 3 : Torquay Station - the Night in the Jeep 1944. There was an open...

The Mystery of the East

I am sure that we, the British, could only watch with feeling akin to amazement, at possibly the happiest...

War life for a young lady - Gladys Mills

I was born on 30th July 1924 and was 16 when war started, and living in Glanymor Terrace, Northampton. I...

A Land Army Girl's Life in Buckhold

Buckhold was surround by American forces in Pangbourne, Caversham, Aldermast and Greenham Common....

Friendship

Grandad kept chickens, geese, cows, goats and pigs, he also had a small allotment and orchard... He showed...

Milk for Chocolate - A Land Girl's life

They would often give me chocolate bars in exchange for the milk —with a round of 1000 customers I...

Sugared Doughnuts

Every Tuesday we would visit my Aunt in Portrush and as usual we were ushered upstairs so the adults could...

Red Cross Parcels - Red Cross Penny a Week Fund

During this time my father was a farmer at Clays Farm, Heckfield, Basingstoke, Hants, England. Basingstoke...

D Day

Some time in spring empty houses were requisitioned by the US army, and we woke up one morning to find that...

The Yanks are Coming

Enthusiastic waving and cheering and shouts of “Got any gum, Chum” at the GI's leaning out...

Sunshine in the Shadows

Working at Margaret Hill hairdressers on Tombland, Norwich I would give the ladies a good shampoo hoping...

The Free French at our Home

Most of those that stayed with my parents didn't survive the war but were killed on active duty...

Young Evacuees to Norfolk by Beryl Lamb and Pamela Angell

And three years later when we were evacuated again, it was together with the younger children Pamela,...

Grandfather was a GI

My Grandfather never saw my Dad and didn't keep in touch with my Grandmother... My Grandmother, Ivy,...

Evacuation

Early in the war, when my father was recalled from the Met.Police to go back into the Royal Navy for the...

RAF Electrician

In 1941 Albert joined the RAF as an electrician and was posted to the Canadian 502 Squadron based at...

Garden Hut Courtesy of U.S.ARMY

My father John Thomson was an L.N.E.R. railway Inspector in charge of rail freight movements off loaded...