Bambi’ remained till I grew up, a reminder of my wartime childhood, like rabbit pie, no bananas, and...
When my mother noticed the baker was always itching, she told Dad she couldn't stay any longer and we...
We went in and sat under the table and under the stairs in the house next door... And that was the night...
I was born and raised in Leeds and at that time attended Potternewton Junior and Infants School on the...
Both of us, in turn, were evacuated from Northampton to a place of safety, to war torn London, a refuge for...
It was my job to go to the beach to collect shells which we'd bash up to put in with the potato...
Green fields to run wild in, a river at the end of the garden, an auntie that spoilt me, poor little...
My father worked in the Admiralty Offices at Chatham Dockyard which were re located to Kingston, Jamaica in...
I was an evacuee along with my four sisters, my brother and my Mother. My brother learned to fish at the...
If an Air Raid was expected they would milk the cows, then come all the 40 miles up to our house in...
On the Saturday morning Mrs Mac packed a picnic with bottled water and a kettle for tea... We climbed out...
On one occasion Mr Churchill entertained the King and Queen when Georgina cooked a magnificent dinner....
Another year, Daddy came to stay for a week and we were told by Mrs Harris to walk to the station to...
Longstone was a village which sheltered evacuees and was comparatively unaffected by air attack, although...
There were lots of ways that civilians could help with the war effort: - selling badges for ‘Spitfire...
Later a lot of big lorries started to come through the village laden with dirt and wood and trees and we...
My grandad was Luigi, my dad Francis Luigi and me- Toni Francis Luigi- my brother who was born in the war...
I lived around Winstanley Drive, Western Park, Hinckley Road area of Leicester. As soon as the sirens went,...
Whilst on the subject of ‘black-out’, I always viewed with wonder the railway signal lights...
Every day this ordinary man cycled one mile down the hill, half a mile along the valley then walked up the...
Missus”, he said, “there's been some kind of a bomb on a parachute on Smith's field,...
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