The wait to get in the Land Army was six months, when you are seventeen years old there is no way you...
After about an hour or so, we arrived at a village called Alrewas where we were escorted into a place...
When H.M.S. Londonderry sailed up the River Foyle on its return from a spell of duty, the Captain would...
10 — Alec and Joyce Sheppard talk about their wartime: Alec, a trained craft teacher, as an artillery...
Now that we had moved back to Tunstall I saw more of Pauline my dads younger sister and my cousins Michael...
It was a small office and there was an R.A.F. Cpl., an aircraftwoman and an airman as well as...
Alice Askey, née Simms, remembers 7 girls going together as Bevan Girls to make piston rings in a...
My sisters were to stay with the Willets' family in a miners cottage, and I was to stay with the...
We were lucky to escape so lightly because Stafford contained some important war industries; English...
By an ironic twist of fate, and a year later, I stood in a busy London street on the periphery of Shepherds...
At the bottom of the street, where the fence was, is where we spent most of our time after school and...
When the train left the station, it was daylight, so we were able to see out of the train windows, which...
It heightened my awareness of the war and so when one evening we heard a plane low overhead and circling,...
As told to a class of secondary school pupils. I was four years old when, after the Dunkirk rescue in May...
Against his will he had to leave his "babies" in England after World War II... I first heard the...
Having reached the requisite age in 1938, I attended the Church of England Primary school in Lydd where,...
The pupils from St. Joseph's tin hut school, the convent further along St. Peter's Park Road,...