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Interview with Fay Price
Fay Price was nine at the outbreak of the Second World War, living in Grimsby. She and her twin were the youngest of six siblings. Her memory of the start of the war was the ending of birthday parties. Her father was a fish merchant and was able to…
Interview with Beryl Pickwell
Beryl Pickwell lived in Lincoln during the war and recalls the day war was declared. She was the youngest in the family with three brothers and two sisters. Her father and two brothers worked in war factories, Clarke’s Crank and Ruston and…
Interview with Kenneth Lindley
Kenneth Lindley was born in Hillsborough, Sheffield in 1926. Before joining the RAF, Kenneth was an engineer’s apprentice, and often helped the Air Raid Warden by acting as a messenger. He recalls joining the Air Training Corps as a teenager. When…
Interview with Joy Joy. Two
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Interview with Margaret Givens
Margaret Givens grew up in Coventry and witnessed the bombing of the city. She and other children sat on the bricks of the destroyed cathedral to attend a service. Her house was bombed and while she and her brother were staying with her grandmother,…
Interview with Freda Fairweather
During the war, Freda Fairweather was called up to work for Avro and worked on Lancasters at RAF Waddington and RAF Swinderby. She describes cleaning the perspex windows and using her own box spanners to remove aircraft wings. She recollects flying…
Interview with Peter Stevenson
Peter Stevenson was born in Grantham and joined the Air League of the British Empire, as well as the Air Defence Cadet Corps, The Officer’s Training Corps and the Public School’s Air Cadet Wing. He rose through the cadet ranks and embarked on…
Interview with Alan Seagger
Before the war, Alan was an electrical apprentice. He joined the RAF and was posted to RAF Binbrook before being posted overseas. He was placed with No. 37 Squadron for a time, which moved to Egypt and was based at RAF Shallufa. There were troops of…
Interview with Sybil Green
Sybil was born in Bracebridge near Lincoln and went to Bracebridge School. She left school, aged 14, to start work, first at a Co-op store and then at an electrical shop. Sybil talks about civilian life in wartime; her family working at Foster…