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I used to go to the Church every Sunday because I was in the Guides, and I remember the day the war...
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The kids always sang songs and near Christmas time we sang carols... This was bombed and many people were...
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Joe Norman: 'I think that there was a lot less thuggery and crime around and on the streets, and of...
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On the eve of the outbreak of war my parents arranged for us to stay with an uncle and aunt in Swansea,...
As a family we didn't have many casualities - although I had an Uncle and cousin who were hit by the...
I don't know what year it was when a bomb dropped near the village school leaving a huge crater, so my...
Here I had my first experience of a goose-feather bed — you sank into it up to the ears and...
The headmaster was called Arthur Phillips and he used to make a signal and we all had to rush up to Ewyas...
All doctors and nurses had been instructed to go immediately to London so that they could be available if...
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We went to live at Strete Barton with farmer Trant and his wife, two sons and the maid, Phyllis. The...
Later when we moved to my Grandma's house, having been turned out of our small holding; my Dad was in...
I lived in Castle Road and there was an almighty bang one night when a doodle bug had caused an explosion...
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